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Democracy Digest from the National Endowment for Democracy (NED): Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng’s audacious escape from detention is likely to have as big an impact on

Democracy Digest from the National Endowment for Democracy (NED): Efforts to bolster independent media and an open Internet overseas are having significant impact, but face a

Democracy Digest from the National Endowment for Democracy (NED): Historians and political scientists have long debated the respective importance of individuals and impersonal forces, agency and structure,

Democracy Digest from the National Endowment for Democracy (NED): “The point of elections is that their outcome should be uncertain,” says The Economist.

Democracy Digest from the National Endowment for Democracy (NED): As China’s dauphin Xi Jinping met President Barack Obama at the White House today, a new survey revealed

Sources told BBG Watch that an independent Russian journalist who warned about a “pro-Putin” bias of the Voice of America Russian Service is new media scholar Dr. Nikolay

Democracy Digest from the National Endowment for Democracy (NED): Reports that Twitter is planning to ‘censor’ the content of certain tweets has caused alarm amongst pro-democracy bloggers

Democracy Digest from the National Endowment for Democracy (NED): A new two-part BBC series on Russia’s democratic regression is essential viewing for anyone seeking to understand the

Democracy Digest from the National Endowment for Democracy (NED): Russia’s revived and robust opposition plans to rally near the Kremlin next month, maintaining the momentum of protests

Democracy Digest from the National Endowment for Democracy (NED): Does the experience of post-Soviet transitions bear lessons for the Arab Spring?

Democracy Digest from the National Endowment for Democracy (NED): Václav Havel’s “peaceful resistance shook the foundations of an empire, exposed the emptiness of a repressive ideology, and

Democracy Digest from the National Endowment for Democracy (NED): A new collection of Liu Xiaobo’s writings demonstrates that the Chinese dissident has much in common with

Democracy Digest from the National Endowment for Democracy (NED): Václav Havel spoke directly to Chinese dissidents, writes scholar and human rights activist Xiaorong Li. He knew intimately what

Democracy Digest from the National Endowment for Democracy (NED): The Board of Directors of the National Endowment for Democracy in cooperation with the Embassy of the Czech