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Muzzling the Media:
Chinese curbs before anniversary
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BBC,
6/2/2009
To Shut Off Tiananmen Talk, China Disrupts Sites
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New York Times,
6/2/2009
Moderate Iranian Candidate Criticizes Facebook Ban
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RFE/RL,
5/25/2009
Will Iran President's Rivals Lose Valuable Campaign Tool?
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RFE/RL,
5/23/2009
International groups worry over Venezuela's stance on free press
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CNN,
5/23/2009
Venezuelan Police Raid Offices of TV Executive
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New York Times,
5/22/2009
Last anti-Chavez TV station faces shutdown
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Miami Herald
, 5/18/09
Iranian Reformist Daily Banned One Day After Relaunch
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RFE/RL,
5/17/2009
The Kremlin's quest for Pravda 2.0
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Foreign Policy,
5/09/2009
China's Commercialization of Censorship
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Far Eastern Economic Review,
5/02/2009
Authoritarian Soft Power:
An (iron) fistful of help
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The Economist,
6/04/2009
A Who’s Who of those in the pay of Vladimir Putin
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Daily Star,
6/02/2009
Beijing Learns to be a Superpower
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Far Eastern Economic Review,
5/01/2009
Clinton warns of Iranian, Chinese gains in Latin America
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CNN,
5/01/2009
Deals Help China Expand Sway in Latin America
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New York Times,
4/15/2009
Booming Confucius institutes enhance China's soft power
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Xinhua,
9/02/2008
Take Aid From China and Take a Pass on Human Rights
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New York Times,
3/09/2008
China lends Cambodia $305m
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Straits Times,
12/03/2008
Threats to Rules-Based Organizations:
Venezuela rejects concerns from UN, OAS on media
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Washington Post,
5/24/2009
European Court Seems to Rankle Kremlin
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New York Times
, 3/29/2009
Democratic Deficit: Kazakhstan’s OSCE Chairmanship
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Wall Street Journal Europe
, 7/6/2007
Illiberal Education:
On Useful And Harmful Falsifications Of Russian History
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Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty,
5/24/2009
Russian history 2.0: Kremlin wants to 'correct' the record
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Christian Science Monitor,
05/21/2009
Medvedev’s Terrifying Order
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Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty,
5/21/2009
Slippery Slope to Autocracy
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Moscow Times,
5/26/2009
The New Fascism
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Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty,
5/20/2009
Chinese education minister vows to maintain sound development of Confucius Institute
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Xinhua,
12/12/07
General:
Pakistan on the Brink
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New York Review of Books,
6/11/2009
Democracy seen threatened by new authoritarianism
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Reuters UK,
6/4/2009
RFA
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Tiananmen: Days to Remember
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The Washington Post,
6/2/2009
Recollecting Tiananmen
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Radio Free Asia,
5/27/2009
For a City in Gridlock, a Lifeline and a Scourge
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New York Times,
5/24/2009
Global democracy over a barrel
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The Boston Globe
, 5/14/09
Russia and its Image: Put in more flags
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The Economist,
5/14/2009
Police break up anti-Chavez march with tear gas
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The Boston Globe
, 5/01/09
The End of Democracy?
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Macleans
, 3/03/09
Iran's $12-billion enforcers - From road-building to laser eye surgery, the Revolutionary Guard dominates the economy
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LA Times,
8/26/2008
Chávez Seizes Greater Economic Power
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New York Times,
5/18/2008
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