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Empowering independent media: U.S. efforts to foster a free press and an open Internet

Efforts to bolster independent media and an open Internet overseas are having significant impact, but face a lack of funding, growth in online censorship and surveillance, and rising attacks on journalists, according to a new report from the Center for International Media Assistance. The forthcoming 150-page report, Empowering Independent Media , provides a comprehensive survey of U.S. initiatives by public and private donors, nonprofit organizations, universities, and others that focus on media as a means to encourage democratization and economic development.

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Putin ‘on a collision course’ or ‘at a fork in the road’? – NED

Democracy Digest from the National Endowment for Democracy (NED): “The point of elections is that their outcome should be uncertain,” says The Economist.

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‘Paranoid’ Kremlin tries to curb opposition, as pro-democracy US envoy sworn in

Democracy Digest from the National Endowment for Democracy (NED): Russia’s revived and robust opposition plans to rally near the Kremlin next month, maintaining the momentum of protests

Soviet Fall, Arab Spring

Democracy Digest from the National Endowment for Democracy (NED): Does the experience of post-Soviet transitions bear lessons for the Arab Spring?

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Havel’s moral leadership remains a beacon, Obama tells memorial tribute

Democracy Digest from the National Endowment for Democracy (NED): Václav Havel’s “peaceful resistance shook the foundations of an empire, exposed the emptiness of a repressive ideology, and

What Havel means to China’s dissidents – NED

Democracy Digest from the National Endowment for Democracy (NED): Václav Havel spoke directly to Chinese dissidents, writes scholar and human rights activist Xiaorong Li. He knew intimately what

Putin’s ‘Ceausescu moment’? Maybe not, but …… – NED

Democracy Digest from the National Endowment for Democracy (NED): Russian premier Vladimir Putin today disparaged his critics as pawns of the United States in his first public

Re-run election, says Gorbachev; support Russia’s democrats, says bipartisan group – NED

Democracy Digest from the National Endowment for Democracy (NED): The United States must speak and act in support of Russia’s pro-democracy forces, a bipartisan group insisted today.

A year on from Liu Xiaobo’s Nobel: China still ‘under shadow of the future’ – NED

Democracy Digest from the National Endowment for Democracy (NED): One year after the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded in absentia (above) to jailed dissident Liu Xiaobo, Carl

Liu Xiaobo – analytic calm, activist diligence – NED

Democracy Digest from the National Endowment for Democracy (NED): China’s rulers are right to see imprisoned dissident Liu Xiaobo as a subversive, writes Perry Link. They fully

Can US show same ‘moral leadership’ as Liu Xiaobo? – NED

Democracy Digest from the National Endowment for Democracy (NED): A year after winning the Nobel Peace Prize, Liu Xiaobo still languishes in prison, while China’s government is

What Russia’s election was really about…….. – NED

Democracy Digest from the National Endowment for Democracy (NED): Russian premier Vladimir Putin today blamed US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for fomenting political unrest following this

Inherent limits to China’s soft power: Let 100 flowers bloom but ………… – NED

Democracy Digest from the National Endowment for Democracy (NED): U.S. President Barack Obama sets off on his Asia tour amid growing speculation about the Unites States’ ability

China’s moral crisis: from Maoism to Daoism? — NED

Democracy Digest from the National Endowment for Democracy (NED): By highlighting cultural reform at the end of its annual plenum last week, China’s ruling Communist Party

Why Russia’s democrats need West’s support — NED

Democracy Digest from the National Endowment for Democracy (NED): Konstantin Fetisov was badly beaten for his campaign against the construction of an $8 billion Moscow-St. Petersburg

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