All posts tagged Russia

Democracy Digest from the National Endowment for Democracy (NED): Are authoritarians winning the war of ideas in the former Soviet bloc?

Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) - New York, October 7, 2011--Five years after the brutal assassination of Russian investigative journalist Anna Politkovskaya, the Committee to Protect

Reporters Sans Frontières (RSF) - The failure to solve Anna Politkovskaya 's murder in the five years since her death casts a long shadow that threatens

Democracy Digest from the National Endowment for Democracy (NED): Vladimir Putin's return to the presidency is a fatal blow to Russia's managed democracy and to prospects for

Al Kamen reported in his Washington Post In the Loop column that longtime State Department employee Diane Zeleny, who several

Democracy Digest from the National Endowment for Democracy (NED): Russia’s finance minister resigned today in protest at Vladimir Putin’s “job swap” with President Dmitri Medvedev, apparently confirming the

Democracy Digest from the National Endowment for Democracy (NED): Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s self-elevation prompted a bizarre, if historically familiar incident at the current congress of

International Freedom of Expression eXchange: Alexander Singurov believes the attack was aimed at killing him. He links the incident to stories published in his newspaper just two

The International Broadcasting Bureau director Richard Lobo has just announced a Congress-approved reorganization of the Broadcasting Board of Governors executive and strategic planning staff. BBG executives who

A recent article in Congressional Quarterly offers a good view of the BBG's arguments, many of them misleading, against critics in Congress and elsewhere. BBG Chairman

Democracy Digest from the National Endowment for Democracy (NED): It is no insult to describe Elena Bonner (left) as a dissident personality, writes Anne Applebaum. Bonner,

Shortly before which wars/uprisings/major crises did BBG executives proposed or implemented broadcasting cuts to the affected countries. Please vote on USGBroadcasts.com website and check it for answers. The Jasmine

Update: this is how VOA Chinese website may look like if BBG executives succeed in ending VOA broadcasts to China, fire experienced journalists and implement their favorite

Democracy Digest from the National Endowment for Democracy (NED): Reports that the international community is failing to support democratic transitions emerging from the Arab Spring are raising