Political Critique Archive

Is Kosovo showing signs of a failed state?

As state structures are tasked to make money, the visa rules changes are better for foreigners, not ordinary Belarusians.

The anti-hoax department of the Czech Ministry of Interior officially commenced its operation, much to plenty of politicians’ chagrin.

2016 was an apocalyptic year for socio-political life. It was also a busy year for Krytyka Polityczna.

The Andrey Rylkov Foundation distributes sterile needles to people who use drugs on the streets of Moscow. Now they are facing the Ministry of Justice which is accusing them of being “foreign agents”. Ivan Varentsov explains the case below.

The liberal opposition is playing right into Kaczyński’s hand: its scandals have all but discredited the protest movements.

The demonization of ‘gender ideology’ has become a key rhetorical tool in the construction of a new conception of ‘common sense’ for a wide audience.

This phase of Poland’s parliamentary crisis is over, but Poland remains stuck in a much deeper one – the crisis of far-right authoritarian rule, of representative parliamentary politics and of democracy itself.

What dangers does CETA present for the Czech Republic?

What was most read on Political Critique last year?