The Václav Havel Human Rights Prize is awarded each year by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) in partnership with the Václav Havel Library and the Charta 77 Foundation to reward outstanding civil society action in the …

The latest forecasts show that central Asia and the Caucasus are the fastest-growing economies in the former Communist bloc, writes a leading analyst.

“Yet, given the low level of income and relatively high population growth of these countries, the numbers …

Russians are “now observing the end of an epoch that began with Gorbachev’s perestroika,” says a prominent analyst.

“These are simply the last remnants of freedom, freedom of scholarship and freedom of information,” said Lev D. Gudkov (above), the director …

Russia’s NGO law branding overseas-funded groups as foreign agents is impeding the country’s civil society development, says a former Finance Minister.

“The law on NGOs as foreign agents that the Duma has passed is a clear restriction of …

The Kremlin’s efforts to undermine the democratic opposition and cultivate anti-American sentiment are the real factors behind the arrest of alleged CIA spy Ryan Fogle, analysts suggest.  

“Public humiliations of hapless foreign spies were a staple of the Soviet …

State-controlled media reveled in embarrassing the U.S. over an alleged attempt to recruit a Russian intelligence agent, highlighting the summoning of U.S. Ambassador Michael McFaul (right) to the Russian Foreign Ministry to receive a formal protest.

“In the Russian elite …

A group offering support to Russians suffering from cystic fibrosis is one of hundreds of civil society groups to have been subject to official warnings and intrusive inspections under the Kremlin’s “foreign agents” law, a leading human rights group …

Russia should revise a law that is having “obstructive, intimidating and stigmatizing effects” on the country’s non-governmental organizations, three United Nations experts said today. The report coincides with growing concern that a former Kremlin ideologue’s resignation signals that the regime …

“Wednesday’s dismissal of Deputy Prime Minister Vladislav Surkov (above left), once a trusted aide, has underlined how isolated Putin is a year into his third term,” writes Reuters’ Timothy Heritage:

His replacement by a less sophisticated operator, …

Central and East European democrats with direct experience of democratic transitions are better qualified to offer advice on democratization, according to the head of the new European Endowment for Democracy. The EED is “inspired” by the example of the US-based …