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	<title>Democracy Digest &#187; .S.-Russia Bilateral Presidential Commission’s Civil Society Working Group</title>
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		<title>Russia&#8217;s Legal Nihilism &#8230;Not Much the West Can Do?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 19:32:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Allen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Backlash]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Eurasia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Human rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NGOs/Civil society]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[National Endowment for Democracy]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[authoritarianism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[democracy support]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[rule of law]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[.S.-Russia Bilateral Presidential Commission’s Civil Society Working Group]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[and Labor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[anna politkovskaya]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Assistant Secretary of State Bureau of Democracy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[civil society dialog]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[constraints on NGOs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[European Court of Human Rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Karinna Moskalenko]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ludmila Alexeeva]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michael Posner]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mikhail Khodorkovsky]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Natasha Estemirova]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[promoting democracy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[restrictions on civil society]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sergei Kovalev]]></category>

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		<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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