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Freedom House Releases Report: "Promise and Reversal: The Post-Soviet Landscape Twenty Years On"
Freedom House today launched a web feature presenting its latest special report, ‘Promise and Reversal: The Post-Soviet Landscape Twenty Years On,’ to mark the 20th anniversary of the failed Soviet coup of August 19, 1991. The feature includes a retrospective essay examining changes in the state of political rights and civil liberties in the former Soviet Union over the last two decades, as well as graphs and rankings that illustrate the region’s performance in the annual Freedom House publications Freedom in the World and Freedom of the Press.
Attacks on the Press 2010: Kyrgyzstan
Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) -
Top Developments• Bakiyev censors news media in a failed attempt to hold power.
• Amid ethnic clashes, Uzbek
Statement on Kyrgyzstan at the Human Rights Council | Human Rights Watch (HRW)
Human Rights Watch (HRW) - See the rest here: Statement on Kyrgyzstan at the Human
CPJ asks Kyrgyz president to ensure fair trial of reporters | Committee to Protect Journalists
Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) - Dear President Otunbayeva: The Committee to Protect Journalists is writing to call your attention to the politicized prosecution of independent journalist
Victor Ashe: This is a subject worthy of debate. I admire and respect Tim Shamble ...
Timothy Shamble: I humbly disagree with Victor Ashe regarding the desire to ban all smo...
NotsomuchpublicNotsomuchpublic: I wonder if Mr. Lynton will be in town to celebrate Ms. Gessen with ot...
Vladimir: Two questions: 1. Masha Gessen blames Putin and defends Khodorkovsky....
Irina: I'm afraid that USA (as USSR/Russia) is becoming a country of victorio...