Democracy Digest from the National Endowment for Democracy (NED): Russia must democratize, join NATO and the EU, shrink its military, and disband its Interior Ministry and Federal Security Service, according to a new report released today by a think tank linked to President Dmitry Medvedev. Urgent economic reforms cannot be realized without political modernization, says the report, “21st-Century Russia: Reflections on an Attractive Tomorrow,” published
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Russia: democracy or atrophy, says Medvedev-linked think-tank




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