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Putin’s ‘Ceausescu moment’? Maybe not, but …… – NED

Russian premier Vladimir Putin today disparaged his critics as pawns of the United States in his first public reaction to the growing protest movement, but the resignation of two leading Kremlin officials suggests that the regime has been rattled by the recent upsurge in protests. Putin hinted at token reforms to address corruption – even hinting that he may release former Yukos executive Mikhail Khodorkovsky – but took a largely uncompromising and notably nationalist tone during a marathon phone-in TV program

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Re-run election, says Gorbachev; support Russia’s democrats, says bipartisan group – NED

Democracy Digest from the National Endowment for Democracy (NED): The United States must speak and act in support of Russia’s pro-democracy forces, a bipartisan group insisted today.

A year on from Liu Xiaobo’s Nobel: China still ‘under shadow of the future’ – NED

Democracy Digest from the National Endowment for Democracy (NED): One year after the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded in absentia (above) to jailed dissident Liu Xiaobo, Carl

Liu Xiaobo – analytic calm, activist diligence – NED

Democracy Digest from the National Endowment for Democracy (NED): China’s rulers are right to see imprisoned dissident Liu Xiaobo as a subversive, writes Perry Link. They fully

Can US show same ‘moral leadership’ as Liu Xiaobo? – NED

Democracy Digest from the National Endowment for Democracy (NED): A year after winning the Nobel Peace Prize, Liu Xiaobo still languishes in prison, while China’s government is

What Russia’s election was really about…….. – NED

Democracy Digest from the National Endowment for Democracy (NED): Russian premier Vladimir Putin today blamed US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for fomenting political unrest following this

Inherent limits to China’s soft power: Let 100 flowers bloom but ………… – NED

Democracy Digest from the National Endowment for Democracy (NED): U.S. President Barack Obama sets off on his Asia tour amid growing speculation about the Unites States’ ability

China’s moral crisis: from Maoism to Daoism? — NED

Democracy Digest from the National Endowment for Democracy (NED): By highlighting cultural reform at the end of its annual plenum last week, China’s ruling Communist Party

Why Russia’s democrats need West’s support — NED

Democracy Digest from the National Endowment for Democracy (NED): Konstantin Fetisov was badly beaten for his campaign against the construction of an $8 billion Moscow-St. Petersburg

US ‘must do more’ to promote Russian democracy — NED

Democracy Digest from the National Endowment for Democracy (NED): The Obama administration has pursued “a robust strategy for supporting democratic change and civil society development in Russia,”

‘New battle for hearts and minds’ in former Soviet space? — NED

Democracy Digest from the National Endowment for Democracy (NED): Are authoritarians winning the war of ideas in the former Soviet bloc?

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Putin’s return signals end of ‘managed democracy’

Democracy Digest from the National Endowment for Democracy (NED): Vladimir Putin's return to the presidency is a fatal blow to Russia's managed democracy and to prospects for

Declinism redux? — NED

Democracy Digest from the National Endowment for Democracy (NED): We’ve heard about the new authoritarianism, the rise of the rest, the reputed appeal of the China model,

Putin’s ‘ominous’ self-elevation could generate crisis of legitimacy and protest movement? — NED

Democracy Digest from the National Endowment for Democracy (NED): Russia’s finance minister resigned today in protest at Vladimir Putin’s “job swap” with President Dmitri Medvedev, apparently confirming the

History repeats itself at Russia’s ruling party congress — NED

Democracy Digest from the National Endowment for Democracy (NED): Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s self-elevation prompted a bizarre, if historically familiar incident at the current congress of

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