All posts tagged eurasia

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.