Democracy Digest from the National Endowment for Democracy (NED): Russia’s leading democratic leaders and thinkers convened again last week for the sixth annual Khodorkovsky Reading, a seminar organized by the Information Science for Democracy (INDEM) think tank and the Memorial human rights group, a grantee of the National Endowment for Democracy. Few emerged impressed with President Dmitry Medvedev’s plans to modernize the country.
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