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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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Remembering Natasha Estemirova

By Michael Allen on July 30, 2009

Usam Baysaev, a former Reagan-Fascell fellow at the National Endowment for Democracy,  remembers his friend, human rights activist Natasha Estemirova.
If a Chechen man tried to go into Chechnya, he would be suspected of being a fighter, and at minimum detained. And, once detained, then quite likely to disappear without trace.
…. For this reason, in the [read full story]

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Kremlin seeks to close Euro option for human rights activists

By Michael Allen on July 27, 2009

Russian victims of human rights abuses have in many cases only been able to secure redress at the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg. Human rights groups win some 95 percent of cases that reach the court, notes Ella Asoyan of the American Committee for Peace in the Caucasus at Freedom House the human [read full story]

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