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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

Reporters Sans Frontières (RSF) - Reporters Without Borders is horrified and appalled by a brutal attack on leading journalist Oleg Kashin outside his Moscow home on

Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) - New York, November 6, 2010--The Russian government must act immediately to arrest the assailants responsible for a brutal attack today

Democracy Digest from the National Endowment for Democracy (NED): President Dmitri Medvedev came to office making laudable statements on the need to curb Russia’s endemic corruption and

The nations of “New Europe” have been staunch allies of the United States in the aftermath of 9/11, and have sacrificed resources and soldiers’ lives in Iraq and

Reporters Sans Frontières (RSF) - Already denounced in the 2009 edition of the World Press Freedom Index, the often liberticidal legislative activity of certain European Union