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Russia’s Legal Nihilism …Not Much the West Can Do?

By Michael Allen on February 4, 2010

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. [read full story]

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Obama trip prompts token NGO reform, but Kremlin incapable of real change

By Michael Allen on July 6, 2009

A loosening of Russia’s restrictive NGO law ahead of a visit by U.S. President Barack Obama is being applauded by civil society groups and human rights activists, who nevertheless stress that the changes cover only a third of NGOs and Russia’s human rights record remains poor.
The reforms place limits on the amount of NGO internal [read full story]

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