A veteran human rights activist was attacked today as Russian police dispersed anti-Kremlin demonstrators in Moscow and St. Petersburg, detaining dozens of protesters.
The protests were the latest in a series that opposition democrats have scheduled for the 31st…
“Nowadays, most of those who die for a cause either perish for the wrong cause or in order to bring death to innocent people,” writes Alvaro Vargas Llosa:
Islamist and nationalist terrorists have turned the noble concept of martyrdom …
“We have been put on earth to make Kafka come true”, Soviet citizens would say.
The institutional corruption that marred IKEA’s attempt to build a model business in Russia shows that Kafka’s Castle is finally collapsing, writes Andrei Loshak…
In an administration reportedly reluctant to highlight the ‘d’ word as a foreign policy priority, Michael McFaul’s unapologetic enthusiasm for promoting democracy is encouraging, writes Ellen Bork.
Reviewing McFaul’s new book, Advancing Democracy Abroad: Why We Should and How …
The Moscow subway bombings provide further evidence of the failure of Putinism, writes Kathryn Stoner-Weiss, deputy director of Stanford University’s Center for Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law.
“The democratic rollback he pursued has produced even less …
Iraq’s interim prime minister has formally appealed the results of this month’s parliamentary elections.
“I want to point out that there was confusion in the election results,” Nuri al-Maliki told a Baghdad press conference. “We will wait to see …
If this week’s suicide attacks in Moscow do prompt an anti-democratic backlash it won’t be like last time, RFE/RL’s Brian Whitmore suggests. The authorities have done little to prevent an atmosphere of fear and xenophobia emerging following the bombings:
It …
A handy round-up of media news from the Center for International Media Assistance, featuring: Twitter’s heady rise has Venezuela’s Chavez in a spin; standard searches on Google Hong Kong site blocked, China web users say; why lawyers …
Democracy and civil society activists in Egypt are calling for international support to prevent the passage of a new law that will impose politically punitive and disabling regulations on non-governmental organizations.
The proposed restrictions come at a time of renewed …
The suicide bombings on Moscow’s subway system are likely to provoke an unsavory backlash, with ethnic minorities from the Caucasus facing the prospect of physical attacks and arrest, says Miriam Lanskoy, senior program officer for Central Asia and the …