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Democracy Digest from the National Endowment for Democracy (NED): President Dmitri Medvedev came to office making laudable statements on the need to curb Russia’s endemic corruption and

The nations of “New Europe” have been staunch allies of the United States in the aftermath of 9/11, and have sacrificed resources and soldiers’ lives in Iraq and

Reporters Sans Frontières (RSF) - Already denounced in the 2009 edition of the World Press Freedom Index, the often liberticidal legislative activity of certain European Union

Human Rights Watch (HRW) - In 2010 Russia appeared to improve its standing in the international arena by expanding its cooperation on human rights issues with

The Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) Chairman Walter Isaacson, recently placed by President Obama in the job of managing U.S. international broadcasting, made news this week

FreeMediaOnline.org Truckee, CA, USA, October 08, 2010 -- The Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) Chairman Walter Isaacson, recently placed by President

Democracy Digest from the National Endowment for Democracy (NED): Anders Aslund offers advice to a young Russian woman: “It is better to marry a top state official

Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) - Moscow, September 30, 2010--Top Russian investigators have pledged to pursue 19 cases of murdered journalists. The Committee to

Reporters Sans Frontières (RSF) - Alexander Bastrykin, the chief investigator at the Russian prosecutor's office, today told a visiting delegation from the New York-based Committee to

By Veronica Khokhlova

Reactions to the Sept. 11 New York Times' story about Microsoft and raids on advocacy groups by

24 September 2010 STATEMENT Combating Impunity for Those Who Attack and Kill Journalists in Belarus, Russia and Ukraine This Joint Statement is an outcome of the international conference Ten years on

Democracy Digest from the National Endowment for Democracy (NED): We call it promoting freedom of expression and the right to information, but authoritarian regimes consider it “ideological

TedLipien.com, Truckee, CA — A funeral Mass for Zofia Korbonska, a heroine of the Polish underground resistance against Nazi occupation, participant in the Warsaw Rising of 1944,

TedLipien.com, Truckee, CA — A funeral Mass for Zofia Korbonska, a heroine of the Polish underground resistance against Nazi occupation, participant in the Warsaw Rising of 1944,