Bangladesh’s Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina won re-election for a fifth term Sunday, officials said, following a boycott led by an opposition party she branded a “terrorist organisation”.
Bangladesh’s Hasina wins re-election after polls without opposition
Previously:
Regime change operation underway in Bangladesh and why India should be alert (archived)
Related:
Bangladesh: The government must stop killing protestors and silencing dissent (OMCT*)
National Endowment for Democracy, Oak Foundation, Open Society Foundations (George Soros), Open Society Justice Initiative, European Commission, United States of America,
Michael Kugelman (Wilson Center**): The U.S. Ups the Ante in Bangladesh
BAE Systems, Coca-Cola, BlackRock, Carnegie Corporation, Hewlett Foundation, ClimateWorks (Bill Gates, Michael Bloomberg) Morgan Stanley, Northrop Grumman,
Riga – In a Stalinist skyscraper dominating the skyline of Latvia’s capital, dozens of elderly Russians wait to take a basic Latvian language test as a proof of loyalty to a country where they have lived for decades.
Scores of Russians take Latvian language test as deportation looms
Flashback to when Trump said that he was going to make federal employees to take loyalty tests:
‘Full-blown fascism’: Donald Trump envisions a ‘civil service test’ for ‘every federal employee’
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