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1. Boston Globe Editorial: 'Putin's Power Grab'
db number - 19467 , published on 12/3/2005, at 7:30:55 AM [topic - bbrother][edit]
The intent of this legislative grab for total control over Russian civil society is of a piece with Putin's use of a corrupt judiciary to confiscate the most valuable part of the giant energy conglomerate Yukos, sending its former chief Mikhail Khodorkovs more...
| 2. Reuters: Russia: Draft Law Would Eviscerate Civil Society
db number - 19466 , published on 11/27/2005, at 9:58:30 AM [topic - bbrother][edit]
(Moscow, November 22, 2005)-Russia's parliament should reject legislation that would tighten government control over Russian civil society groups and force foreign organizations in Russia to close, Human Rights Watch said in a briefing paper today. On Wed more...
| 3. SF Chronicle: Putin Moves to Shut Down NGOs
db number - 19464 , published on 11/19/2005, at 8:12:53 AM [topic - bbrother][edit]
Legislation endorsed by Putin's Cabinet and co-sponsored by his political party would bar foreign nongovernmental organizations, or NGOs, from operating offices in Russia and require all 450,000 of them to re-register with the state to ensure that they do more...
| 4. Parker: African-American, please!
db number - 19215 , published on 10/5/2005, at 10:06:51 AM [topic - bbrother][edit]
The First Amendment has been getting a workout in recent weeks on two college campuses - the University of Florida and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill - where students are learning that free speech is a messy business. more...
| 5. Paul Craig Roberts: Resurrection of the Star Chamber
db number - 19115 , published on 9/21/2005, at 8:59:44 AM [topic - bbrother][edit]
Propaganda has replaced deliberation based on objective assessment of fact. The resurrection of the Star Chamber has made moot the legal protections of liberty. more...
| 6. VHeadline: Use the Patriot Act Against Pat Robertson
db number - 18946 , published on 8/24/2005, at 8:58:33 AM [topic - bbrother][edit]
Why not use the PatrioBy calling for a world leaderÂ’s assassination, this proves that he is NOT PRO LIFE, but part of the sick machine that has taken hold of our country in Washington, D.C. where death goes hand in hand with the promotion of their agendas more...
| 7. NYT: Of Christian Rock and North Korean Torture
db number - 18841 , published on 8/9/2005, at 8:16:17 AM [topic - bbrother][edit]
Between the Prayer Tent and an abstinence-promotion booth, however, worshipful revelers also stumbled into a more sobering pavilion, the North Korea Genocide Exhibit. more...
| 8. Philadelphia Inquirer: Romano: 'Kremlin Rising' Title Sums it Up
db number - 18703 , published on 7/18/2005, at 5:06:33 AM [topic - bbrother][edit]
Those who follow Russia closely - a dwindling number as the Mideast sucks up all available oxygen - could only think, "Here we go again." more...
| 9. Amazon: Kremlin Rising
db number - 18714 , published on 7/17/2005, at 8:11:44 AM [topic - bbrother][edit]
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| 10. Moscow Times: The Rise of the Anti-Siloviki Alliance
db number - 18566 , published on 6/28/2005, at 9:10:17 AM [topic - bbrother][edit]
However, those officials, commonly known as the siloviki, are facing growing opposition from other Kremlin insiders who are banding together in a tentative "anti-siloviki alliance," the Moscow think tank said in a 76-page report published earlier this mon more...
| 11. MSNBC: Big Brother is Watching
db number - 18558 , published on 6/27/2005, at 8:54:11 AM [topic - bbrother][edit]
But his two novels about totalitarianism, "Animal Farm" and "1984," were, to Larkin, hideously predictive of modern-day Burma. When she tested her thesis on the locals, they were quick to agree. One man, when asked what he knew of Orwell, replied simply, more...
| 12. WT: Ginsberg: Putin's 'perilstroika'
db number - 18505 , published on 6/21/2005, at 8:23:35 AM [topic - bbrother][edit]
The recent Kremlin-orchestrated verdict in the prosecution (really, persecution) of YUKOS Oil Chairman Mikhail Khodorkovsky should finally confirm doubts about Russian President Vladimir Putin's commitment to President Bush to keep Russia on the path of d more...
| 13. Scotsman: Investia Taken Over by Gazprom in Russia
db number - 18479 , published on 6/17/2005, at 10:45:54 AM [topic - bbrother][edit]
THE takeover of Izvestia, the leading independent Moscow newspaper, by the Russian gas giant, Gazprom, has raised fears of a media crackdown by the Kremlin.
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| 14. American Thinker: Sham Selection (not Election) in Iran
db number - 18478 , published on 6/17/2005, at 10:27:04 AM [topic - bbrother][edit]
We Perisans are united in the spirit of brotherhood and sisterhood, to let the world hear our voices of boycotting yet another phony and sham selection (not election) by the illegitimate Islamic regime in the land of Iran. more...
| 15. eCommerce: 'Freedom' a Taboo Word on Chinese Internet
db number - 18462 , published on 6/15/2005, at 4:06:13 AM [topic - bbrother][edit]
Users of the MSN Spaces section of Microsoft's (Nasdaq: MSFT) new China-based Web portal get a scolding message each time they input words deemed taboo by the communist authorities -- such as democracy, freedom and human rights.
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| 16. WT: Conservatives, liberals align against Patriot Act
db number - 18457 , published on 6/14/2005, at 7:52:02 AM [topic - bbrother][edit]
Conservative groups have found common ground with the liberal American Civil Liberties Union in their opposition to the USA Patriot Act and pledge to wage a high-profile fight against it, claiming even its renewal is shrouded in secrecy. more...
| 17. MosNews: New Unrest in Uzbekistan
db number - 18443 , published on 6/11/2005, at 9:41:54 AM [topic - bbrother][edit]
New unrest broke out in Uzbekistan, with demonstrators facing off against riot police at a round-the-clock rally outside the house of an arrested dissident, international media reported. more...
| 18. Maxims News: UzbekistanÂ’s Growing Police State
db number - 18380 , published on 6/1/2005, at 8:10:10 AM [topic - bbrother][edit]
Finally, the biggest demonstration involving thousands of people in Andijan ended in a massacre of hundreds of men, women and children. more...
| 19. Korea Herald: Press freedom deteriorates worldwide
db number - 18354 , published on 5/30/2005, at 7:58:48 AM [topic - bbrother][edit]
Freedom of expression and the safety of journalists are under siege in most regions of the world, the Paris-based World Association of Newspapers said in its half-year review of press freedom released here. more...
| 20. Alternet: The Growing Police State in Uzbekistan
db number - 18344 , published on 5/28/2005, at 10:21:59 AM [topic - bbrother][edit]
The recent massacre in Uzbekistan's northeast city of Andijon is strikingly similar to the bloody crackdown in China's Tien An Men square: no cameras, and no access to verify the number of dead. more...
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