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Clinton challenges Central Asia’s ‘homo Sovieticus’

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton has highlighted human rights and the role of civil society at the start of a three-nation tour of Central Asia.

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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

NED grantee may be forced to quit Chechnya

Democracy Digest from the National Endowment for Democracy (NED): The head of one of Russia’s leading human rights groups has announced that it may be forced to

Putin is one of us, says Russia’s radical right

Democracy Digest from the National Endowment for Democracy (NED): Russia’s radical right-wing nationalists view Vladimir Putin as one of their own, according to research by the SOVA

Russia “in the vanguard” of region’s anti-democratic backlash

Democracy Digest from the National Endowment for Democracy (NED): Continuing democratic regression in the non-Baltic former Soviet Union presents a serious challenge to policymakers, according to an

New threat to Russia’s dissenters

Democracy Digest from the National Endowment for Democracy (NED): Even hardened KGB operatives were unnerved by veteran dissident Lyudmila Alexeyeva: Back in the Soviet era, she would

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.

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

Kyrgyzstan: US can seize moral high ground

Democracy Digest from the National Endowment for Democracy (NED): The United States has a strategic interest in promoting democracy in Kyrgyzstan, writes Kathleen Collins. The recent uprising

Why Kyrgyz Citizens Turned…

Democracy Digest from the National Endowment for Democracy (NED): Kyrgyzstan’s former President Kurmanbek Bakiev was never really committed to democracy, says Bakyt Beshimov, a former opposition MP.

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