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Azerbaijan court rejects dissident blogger’s appeal

A dissident blogger will remain in jail after an Azerbaijani rejected an appeal for early release, RFE/RL’s Azerbaijani Service reports. Adnan Hajizada – sentenced last November on charges of hooliganism along with fellow blogger Emin Milli – was denied released because he refused to admit his guilt, the court ruled

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Russia: rights deteriorating despite reset?

Democracy Digest from the National Endowment for Democracy (NED): “At a time when democracy remains threatened or in retreat throughout the former Soviet empire, with Russia leading

Russia: investors deterred by no rule of law

Democracy Digest from the National Endowment for Democracy (NED): Russia’s leading democratic leaders and thinkers convened again last week for the sixth annual Khodorkovsky Reading, a seminar

Don’t conflate promoting democracy with military intervention

Democracy Digest from the National Endowment for Democracy (NED): A mistaken equation of democracy promotion with Iraq-style military intervention has led to a timidity and false realism

Medvedev’s US visit: seeking Viagra for authoritarian system?

Democracy Digest from the National Endowment for Democracy (NED): President Dmitri Medvedev’s visit is partly designed to attract investment in a country rife with corruption, wary of

A community of democracies? Think again

Democracy Digest from the National Endowment for Democracy (NED): Turkey and Brazil may be democracies, but that does not translate into support for US policies, for globalization

Zhovtis case raises ’serious questions’ about OSCE chair

Democracy Digest from the National Endowment for Democracy (NED): The onus is on Kazakh’s government to reach a just conclusion to the case of a prominent human

NGOs petition to end torture in Azerbaijan

Democracy Digest from the National Endowment for Democracy (NED): Azerbaijani civil society groups are urging international support for an investigation into torture cases in Azerbaijan, RFE/RL reports.

Why China won’t rule the world

Democracy Digest from the National Endowment for Democracy (NED): The blend of political authoritarianism and market capitalism that is now lauded as the China model—or Beijing consensus

Zhovtis case shows Kazakh institutions’ failure to deliver

Democracy Digest from the National Endowment for Democracy (NED): A senior OSCE parliamentarian has met with imprisoned human rights activist Yevgeny Zhovtis at a prison colony in

Message trumps medium for dissidents

Democracy Digest from the National Endowment for Democracy (NED): Why aren’t today’s democratic dissidents as well-known as the Soviet dissidents in the 1970s and 1980s? The Boston

Promoting dignity – or democracy?

Democracy Digest from the National Endowment for Democracy (NED): The Obama administration’s new approach to foreign policy has been more successful overseas than at home, Spencer Ackerman

Polish plane crash claims leading democrats of Solidarnosc generation

Democracy Digest from the National Endowment for Democracy (NED): A strange blend of sadness and celebration marked the start of the World Movement for Democracy’s 6th Assembly

Russia’s Legal Nihilism …Not Much the West Can Do?

Democracy Digest from the National Endowment for Democracy (NED): Russia provides a challenging “test case” for the Obama administration’s approach to promoting democracy while engaging authoritarian regimes,

2009 a year of living dangerously as autocrats target activists

Democracy Digest from the National Endowment for Democracy (NED): Authoritarian regimes have deliberately targeted and intensified attacks against human rights and democracy advocates over the past year,

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