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  • Internet, free expression, and authoritarianism 9 Nov 2009 17:12 GMT
    ... people talk about social media, authoritarianism and free expression. Full announcement below - Georgetown University's Institute for ... and discuss the changing political environments in Russia, China, and Iran. 2:00 to 5:00 p.m. Tuesday, November 17th ...

  • The limits of free speech 9 Nov 2009 18:53 GMT
    ... However, if a contributor or columnist goes too ... Deidre's columns on sex and relationships in Moscow - love them or hate them - have been one ...

  • CTC Media Files Lawsuits Against Board Member (PRN) 9 Nov 2009 18:10 GMT
    ... appointed to the CTC Media Board of Directors in November 2008. is a leading independent media company in Russia, with operations throughout Russia and elsewhere in the CIS. It operates three free-to-air television networks ...

  • CTC Media Files Lawsuits Against Board Member 9 Nov 2009 18:10 GMT
    ... ("CTC Media" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: leading independent media company, today announced that it has become ... Alfa CTC Holdings Limited ("Alfa") and MTG Russia AB ("MTG") - have today issued written notice to ...

  • How The West Failed Eastern Europe 9 Nov 2009 00:55 GMT
    ... to the 'stans of Central Asia, wherever Moscow's corrupting and brutish influence hasn't faded, nothing much ... popular purchase after endless economic bullying by Russia and its political allies. Across the region, in ... continuum of affluence, to go along with free speech and free elections. We did nothing to ...

  • Debate Over Media Freedoms Emerges in Russia 8 Nov 2009 02:37 GMT
    ... Debate Over Media Freedoms Emerges in Russia Two recent high-profile articles are making news ... other article alleges that Prime Minister Vladimir Putin was behind a series of apartment bombings ... Russian human rights advocates, however, accuse the Kremlin leader of hypocrisy. They point to continued ...

  • In eastern Europe, people pine for socialism 8 Nov 2009 02:10 GMT
    ... are unemployed and many go abroad." In Russia, several Soviet-themed restaurants have opened in Moscow ... hand" are other consequences. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, a former KGB agent, described the fall ... "the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the century." Kremlin critics have accused the authorities of a ...

  • SPECIAL REPORT: In eastern Europe, people pine for socialism 8 Nov 2009 00:55 GMT
    ... BELENE, Bulgaria (Reuters) – In the dense forests ... "the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the century." Kremlin critics have accused the authorities of a ... Sekularac in Belgrade and Conor Humphries in Moscow; Editing by Sara Ledwith) ...

  • SPECIAL REPORT - In eastern Europe, people pine for socialism 8 Nov 2009 02:54 GMT
    ... BELENE, Bulgaria (Reuters) – In the dense forests ... "the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the century". Kremlin critics have accused the authorities of a ... Sekularac in Belgrade and Conor Humphries in Moscow; Editing by Sara Ledwith) ...

  • A Different Pace Beneath the City 8 Nov 2009 04:30 GMT
    ... of the fall of the Iron Curtain, Russia is left wondering why it has so little ... stirred fears Thursday about a crackdown on free speech on the country's No. 1 search engine. ... Kalmanovich, 60, was gunned down in central Moscow on Monday in an apparent contract hit that authorities ...

  • Journalists in Former Soviet Union Face Mounting Dangers 8 Nov 2009 02:37 GMT
    ... of the phenomenon of contract assassinations in Russia, which the International Union of Journalists calls ... Russian journalist Masha Lipman of the Carnegie Moscow Center calls such attacks "routine." Speaking with ... president, who enjoys the backing of the Kremlin. The North Caucasus is an especially dangerous ...

  • The real Seattle circulation figures 8 Nov 2009 04:33 GMT
    ... on the United States a de facto censorship ultimately as effective as that of the Third ... a 21st Century version of the Tsarist Russian Mujiki. Until the deliberate creation of its ...

  • Turkmen, Uzbek Regimes Ranked Among World's Worst for Press Freedom 8 Nov 2009 00:12 GMT
    ... of the most repressive states where strict censorship is in force, and journalists are persecuted ... authorities continued to have no regard for freedom of speech, and the security services keep tabs on ... long time now,” said a journalist from Russia. “I’ve met President Islam Karimov. The major ...

  • Miliband met by icy reception on debut mission to Moscow 3 Nov 2009 05:30 GMT
    ... David Miliband, British Foreign Secretary, listens to hisRussian counterpart, Sergei Lavrov, at a press conference ... British courts to extradite a number of Kremlin opponents living in Britain. As Mr Miliband ... tycoon Boris Berezovsky, an enemy of Vladimir Putin, but the requests were denied. Mr Berezovsky ...

  • Russian search engine attacked for pro-Kremlin move 4 Nov 2009 15:51 GMT
    ... feel differently from [the prime minister Vladimir] Putin and [President Dmitry] Medvedev should not be ... individual blog or diary entries on the Russian-language internet, discovering themes and stories often ignored ... become a tool for political radicals. The Kremlin often refers to its political opponents such ...


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