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Yemen’s transition process is on the brink of collapse due to the failure to reform security institutions and disempower former regime elements, a leading activist warned today.
Former president Ali Abdullah Saleh should be excluded from politics, and youth, women …
Since the collapse of Communism, the Council of Europe has “become the first way station for former Soviet bloc nations aspiring to join a web of Western alliances,” writes Judy Dempsey, editor in chief of Carnegie’s Strategic Europe:
As a …
US-Russian relations will remain strained as long as Washington continues to criticize the country’s human rights record, says a close ally of President Vladimir Putin.
The US violated “a tacit understanding” to refrain from publicly criticizing Russia’s democratic regression, undermining …
Burma’s government today held talks with senior commanders of the rebel Kachin Independence Army in an effort to end a violent ethnic conflict that threatens to undermine the country’s reform process.
“The KIA is fighting for autonomy for Kachin state …
“I think Kafka could not have written anything more absurd and unbelievable than this,” said Liu Xia (right), the wife of the jailed Nobel laureate Liu Xiaobo….
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January 30, 2013
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Kremlin scraps US rule of law accord
“In another apparent tit for tat provoked by the Magnitsky Act, Russia said Wednesday that it was withdrawing from an agreement that provided help from the United States in fighting narcotics and human trafficking and enhancing the rule of law,” …
A Ukrainian court has sentenced former police chief Olexiy Pukach to life imprisonment for murdering journalist Georgy Gongadze (left) in 2000, “a crime which rocked the country,” the BBC reports:
Pukach confessed but said he had acted on the …
Russia today announced further curbs on civil society groups, as a leading analyst recommends “information warfare” as the most effective response to the Kremlin’s growing authoritarianism at home and abroad.
“Russia’s Justice Ministry is proposing legislation to extend rules …
Scores of pro-democracy activists were detained and at least five sentenced to prison after a police crackdown on a peaceful protest in Azerbaijan on Saturday.
“Two prominent journalists, Emin Milli and Khadija Ismayilova, were among up to 100 people detained …
The people of the Democratic Republic of the Congo must have genuine representation and expression of their grievances for any peace process to last, said Joshua Marks, the National Endowment for Democracy’s senior program officer, addressing last week’s Great …