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Reporters Sans Frontières (RSF) - Russian and Belgian police are currently searching in the Belgian city of Liège for a man suspecting of being the hitman

Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) -

Democracy Digest from the National Endowment for Democracy (NED): Unlike their Chinese or Iranian counterparts, Russia’s authoritarians have not established a Great Firewall or employed a cyber-army

International Freedom of Expression eXchange: Khimki Forest, which covers 1,000 hectares of land near Moscow, is home to foxes, elks, wild boars and a number of insect

Democracy Digest from the National Endowment for Democracy (NED): Just as business oligarchs are not usually the most eloquent tribunes for democracy, so corporate lawyers tend to

Democracy Digest from the National Endowment for Democracy (NED): Imagine if 35 percent of young Germans had never heard of the Holocaust… It wouldn’t speak well of

Human Rights Watch (HRW) - (New York) ­- The Russian government should closely examine evidence gathered by the Austrian police relating to Chechnya's leader, Human Rights

Democracy Digest from the National Endowment for Democracy (NED): The new authoritarians in Russia and China may have shed their ideological baggage, but they have evidently retained

Democracy Digest from the National Endowment for Democracy (NED): In Vladimir Putin’s Russia, “independent reporting and advocacy has become lethal,” writes Elena Milashina, (right) an investigative journalist

Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) - Dear Mayor Strelchenko: While leading a delegation to Moscow from the Committee to Protect Journalists in late September, I had the

Democracy Digest from the National Endowment for Democracy (NED): The Obama administration has called on Russian authorities to punish the perpetrators of the “heinous” assault on Kommersant

Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) -

New York, November 8, 2010--The Committee to Protect Journalists denounces two attacks on journalists in the Moscow region and calls on

Freedom House: The recent attacks on two journalists in Russia reflect the impunity that is now institutionalized into Russia's system of governance, according to Freedom House.

Democracy Digest from the National Endowment for Democracy (NED): Another Russian reporter was attacked today, two days after a Moscow journalist was brutally beaten in an assault