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	<title>Democracy Digest &#187; anna politkovskaya</title>
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		<title>Russia&#8217;s Legal Nihilism &#8230;Not Much the West Can Do?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Russia provides a challenging “test case” for the Obama administration’s approach to promoting democracy while engaging authoritarian regimes, a Washington meeting heard this week.
While President Dmitry Medvedev was ostensibly committed to modernization, Russia needs “broader institutional changes, including rule of law”, said Michael Posner, Assistant Secretary of State Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Anna Politkovskaya &#8211; two years on, justice still to be done</title>
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Russia and China are &#8220;two autocracies born from communism that have inherited from communism the power of a single party,&#8221; says French philosopher and Russia watcher Andre Glucksmann. But there&#8217;s a big difference.
China is a status quo power, but Russia craves the instability and crises which push up prices for natural resources. &#8220;Russia is a power [...]]]></description>
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