In this collaborative article, Global Voices contributors explore these two stories of statelessness, and reveal how minority communities are redefining nationhood, loyalty, and identity across the region.
For transgender people in Russia, their identity is a risk. Isabelle started her transition in Russia but the anti-LGBTQ+ laws and prohibition of gender transition in 2023 made living there unbearable.
Stateless people are not political abstractions. They are not legal anomalies. They are not clerical problems waiting for administrative correction. They are people.
Russian stories of civic resistance show that environmental justice often begins with a simple question: who has the right to decide the fate of the places people call home?
In Hungary, AI fakes were more of an irritating factor, Russian disinformation did not reach the public, and EU regulations on transparency worked by forcing platforms to ban political ads.
One question being discussed is whether, in the context of a democratic election, these realistic-looking AI videos and comic books are crossing the line.
While the global community often counts the visible toll, lives lost, schools destroyed, the wounds of trauma, displacement, and broken trust can follow children for the rest of their lives.
Numerous incidents of beatings, intimidation and systemic irregularities overshadowing the vote during local elections in ten Serbian municipalities on March 29.
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