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Dezinformatsiya: West’s media recycle Ukraine myths, Putin refines totalitarian tactic
Journalists like The Washington Post’s Eugene Robinson are witlessly recycling Kremlin propaganda, notes analyst George Weigel. “While Putin’s Anschluss strategy for Crimea — and perhaps for more of Ukraine — has been just as brazen in its deployment of the Big Lie and the diplomatic stonewall, the Russian neo-czar has added a few refinements to […] The post Dezinformatsiya: West’s media recycle Ukraine myths, Putin refines totalitarian tactic appeared first on Democracy Digest .
How secrecy impedes effective governance
Over the past decade, my foundation has attempted to do exactly this through the Ibrahim Index of African
Uighurs fear fresh crackdown following Tiananmen ‘premeditated attack’
Chinese authorities declared Wednesday that the fiery vehicle crash in Tiananmen Square this week was a deliberate terrorist attack and said five men have been arrested for
From Velvet Underground to Velvet Revolution
After Soviet tanks crushed Czechoslovakia’s Prague Spring in 1968, all performing musicians were vetted for loyalty to the new regime, The Economist notes . The criteria included:
Vote of the living dead
Authoritarian regimes have come to place an increasingly high premium on the veneer and perceptions of elections, rather than on their substance, Christopher Walker and Alexander Cooley write
A More Pluralist Approach to European Democracy Support
Democracy assistance is at a crucial juncture. It could either be reinvented or begin to lose both credibility and traction, an important new analysis suggests...
View post:Russia – Setback for freedom of information as Duma passes restrictive new laws
Reporters Sans Frontières (RSF) - Reporters Without Borders is deeply concerned at the approval by the lower house of the Russian Parliament, the Duma, two days
WORLD PRESS FREEDOM DAY
Reporters Sans Frontières (RSF) - 39 leaders, groups named as Predators of Freedom of Information in 2013 On World Press Freedom Day, Reporters Without Borders is
Experts say “crimes against freedom of expression” should have special status – RSF
Reporters Sans Frontières (RSF) - Reporters Without Borders welcomes yesterday's joint declaration by four international experts calling on governments to treat “crimes against freedom of expression”
