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‘Russia scenario’ for Arab Spring? — National Endowment for Democracy

Reports that the international community is failing to support democratic transitions emerging from the Arab Spring are raising concerns that emerging governments will be unable to address the socio-economic grievances that drove the unrest.

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Has Russia ‘squandered its chance at democracy’? — NED

Democracy Digest from the National Endowment for Democracy (NED): "While President [Dmitri] Medvedev (left) talks the talk, he has wasted a unique opportunity to contribute to Russia’s

Freedom House Releases Report: "Promise and Reversal: The Post-Soviet Landscape Twenty Years On"

Freedom House: Freedom House today launched a web feature presenting its latest special report, 'Promise and Reversal: The Post-Soviet Landscape Twenty Years On,' to mark the 20th

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Attacks on activists latest sign that Russia is ‘morally corrupt to the core’?

Democracy Digest from the National Endowment for Democracy (NED): Human rights groups are protesting the latest violent attack on a Russian rights activist, as another leading

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Freedom House Calls for Investigation of Latest Attack on Russian Human Rights Activist

Freedom House: Freedom House expresses deep concern over the latest attack on a Russian human rights activist, this time against Bakhrom Khamroyev outside his home in Moscow.

Russia – Convictions of ultra-nationalists for murdering lawyer and journalist a victory for justice, say IFEX members

International Freedom of Expression eXchange: Two ultra-nationalists have been convicted and sentenced to long prison terms for the January 2009 double murder of human rights lawyer Stanislav

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Free Media Online Director Mario Corti Says Medvedev Must Still Prove He Can Implement His Reform Agenda

FreeMediaOnline.org Truckee, CA, USA, May 7, 2011-- In an interview for RIA Novosti Valdai Discussion Club, Free

The 10 Tools of Online Oppressors

Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) - The world’s worst online oppressors are using an array of tactics, some reflecting astonishing levels of sophistication, others reminiscent of old-school

Russia – Do guilty verdicts in double murder mark beginning of end for impunity?

Reporters Sans Frontières (RSF) - Reporters Without Borders welcomes the guilty verdicts that a Moscow court has handed down in the trial of two ultra-nationalist activists

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BBG Internet strategy downplays human rights reporting

[caption id="attachment_10423" align="alignleft" width="216" caption="Image from VOA Russian Service web post "What American women think about sex." Such stories are designed to beef up page views."][/caption] An independent

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Broadcasting Board of Governors Internet Strategy Downplays Human Rights Reporting

FreeMediaOnline.org Truckee, CA, USA, April 6, 2011-- An independent outside expert evaluation of the Voice of America (VOA) Russian news website content,

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Free Media Online Director Mario Corti Discusses Human Rights Situation in Russia

The Valdai Club interview with Free Media Online Director Mario Corti on the human rights situation in Russia.

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BBG's Internet Only Strategy Loses Audience and Fails in Russia

All Americans, including members of Congress, should watch this disturbing but highly informative video.  It shows a group of remarkable journalists from the Voice of America Mandarin and Cantonese

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BBG’s Internet Only Strategy Loses Audience and Fails in Russia

TedLipien.com, Truckee, CA, March 2, 2011 -- In this series of analyses for Free Media Online (FreeMediaOnline.org) -- U.S. International Broadcasting in Crisis-- Ted

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Sound of Hope Plans to Increase Shortwave Radio to China while Voice of America Retreats

TedLipien.com, Truckee, CA, March 1, 2011 -- In this series of analyses for Free Media Online (FreeMediaOnline.org) -- U.S. International Broadcasting in Crisis-- Ted

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