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

Konstantin Fetisov (right) was badly beaten for his campaign against the construction of an $8 billion Moscow-St. Petersburg highway that will destroy large swathes of the Khimki forest. His recent meeting with Michael Posner and Thomas Melia from the US State Department’s Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor illustrates why Russian democrats need Western support, writes Michael Bohm in The Moscow Times

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Azerbaijan – Embassy cable confirmed government harassment of RFE/RL — Reporters Without Borders

Reporters Sans Frontières (RSF) - Cable 09BAKU6 A classified cable to the US State Department from the US chargé d'affaires in Baku, Donald Lu, on 6

State Dept dissenter critical of democracy policy

Democracy Digest from the National Endowment for Democracy (NED): President Barack Obama prefers “building ideas” to promoting democracy, a State Department insider claims.

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Senator Brownback Introduced Legislation That Would Abolish the Broadcasting Board of Governors

 FreeMediaOnline.org & Free Media Online Blog  September 24, 2008, San Francisco -- U.S. Senator Sam Brownback

Surrogate Broadcasting 101 — Why BBG and RFE/RL Are Failing in Russia

FreeMediaOnline.org & Free Media Online Blog,  Commentary by Ted Lipien, September 8, 2008, San Francisco --

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