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though there have been significant disagreements with both Russia and his GOP opponents over the contours of missile defense. Human rights advocates have criticized the president for ignoring the erosion of Russian democracy. Russia has als...
Russia's Central Bank yesterday ordered the interest rate raised from 0.25 to 3.5 percent and
…s, ethnic minorities, Christians, women’s rights advocates, liber- al academics, and independent journalists. Russia is much smaller than China in terms of pop- ulation and economic might, but it has emerged as a leader of modern authoritar...
…tion of fellow authoritarian states regarding tactics and legis- lation to enhance domestic control China and Russia The two major modern authoritarian powers are China and Russia. Until fairly recently, the conventional wisdom was that Chi...
BREAKING DOWN DEMOCRACY: Goals, Strategies, and Methods of Modern Authoritarians common ideologies, whether faith in Marxist revolution or ultraconservative, anticommunist reaction. As the 20th century drew to a close, the weaknesses of bot...
…d a pronounced decline over the past decade. The setbacks have been concentrated in authoritarian states like Russia, China, Venezuela, and lran. But civil society has also met with growing prob- lems in democracies—India and Indonesia amon...
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…eting in the conference room of his executive office at United Nations’ Headquarters in New York with the US, Russia, and the European Union. The frustration was deep amongst all parties. Bilateral talks did not happen. Trilateral talks did...
…service is to take advantage of whatever opportunities come its way in the form of self-generated spies. If a Russian walk-in had not yet burned his bridges to his own ser- vice, U.S. intelligence officers were under instructions to attempt...
…is narrative asserted as if it was established fact, that US government officials had deliberately “trapped” Snowden in Russia. According to Snowden, the purpose of this government ploy was to “demonize” him. To be sure, it is not unpreced…
…otest against the persecution of fellow scholars or the politicized rewriting of history, especially in countries, like Russia and China, that are integrated into the international university system. We urge universities to reject the estab…
uding his contacts with Russian officials in Hong Kong, speak louder than his words. Snowden chose, if he had any choice left at all, the Russian option. Just as he believed Chinese intelligence could protect him in Hong Kong from the Unit…
…nevitable after his video, his only route out of Hong Kong went through two adversaries of the United States, China and Russia. China, as far as is known, did not offer him sanctuary. According to one U.S diplomat, it may have already obtai…
