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	<title>Democracy Digest &#187; Sergei Kovalev</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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