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President: 22 May 2024 – 21 October 2024 Acting General Secretary of the Communist Party: 19 July 2024 – 3 August 2024 General Secretary of the Communist Party: 3 August 2024 – present 24 May: Allamaye Halina Chad: Prime Minister: 12 June: Judith Suminwa Congo-Kinshasa: Prime Minister: 15 June: Peter Pellegrini Slovakia: President [112 ...
According to Encyclopedia Britannica, the Soviet Union during the period of Joseph Stalin's rule was a "modern example" of a totalitarian state, being among "the first examples of decentralized or popular totalitarianism, in which the state achieved overwhelming popular support for its leadership."
The Dictators Who Want to Run the World is a 2024 non-fiction book written by Pulitzer Prize winner Anne Applebaum and published by Doubleday. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The book examines how Autocratic governments, which do not share a common ideology, collaborate to increase their power and control against the democratic and liberal countries. [ 3 ]
In one-party states, the ruling party's leader (e.g. the General Secretary) is usually the de facto top leader of the state, though sometimes this leader also holds the presidency or premiership. In Andorra , Iran , and the Vatican City ( Holy See ), a clergy member also acts as the head of state.
2024 Sheikh Hasina: Bangladesh: 10th Prime Minister of Bangladesh: 2024 Non-cooperation movement: 2024 Bashar al-Assad: Syria: 19th President of Syria: 2024 Syrian opposition offensives: 2024 Yoon Suk Yeol: South Korea: 13th President of South Korea: Impeachment due to enacting martial law: 2024 Han Duck-soo: South Korea: Prime Minister and ...
Since 1999, Vladimir Putin has continuously served as either president (acting president from 1999 to 2000; 2000–2004, 2004–2008, 2012–2018, 2018–2024 and 2024 to present) or Prime Minister of Russia (three months in 1999, full term 2008–2012). [1] During his presidency, he has been a member of the Unity party and the United Russia party.
This is a list of state leaders in the 2020s (2020 to today), such as the heads of state, heads of government, or the general secretaries of single-party states.. These polities are generally sovereign states, including states with limited recognition (when recognised by at least one UN member state), but excludes minor dependent territories, whose leaders can be found listed under territorial ...
In 2024, Anura Kumara Dissanayake of the Marxist-Leninist Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) was elected President of Sri Lanka, and the JVP's broader coalition, National People's Power won a landslide in parliamentary elections shortly thereafter. This represents the first time a communist party has been the ruling party of Sri Lanka.