China’s shadow sector: power in pieces , Kerry Brown
I spent the month of August 2009 travelling around China and looking at the state of democracy (in the sense of "village elections"), the rule of law, and civil society. It was a sobering experience full of disturbing revelations.
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Prison letters, life paths..., Ludmila Ulitskaya Mikhail Khodorkovsky
Ulitskaya to Khodorkovsky 15.10.08.
Dear Mikhail Borisovich,
I've got the chance to write to you and I am very glad of it. My grandfathers were in prison for more than 20 years between them, and my friends of the 60's generation also...
Medvedev: the Gorbachev precedent, Dmitri Travin
The morning of the 10th of September began with a sensation on the Russian Internet. At around 10 a.m., the popular democratic net publication http://www.gazeta.ru/, which often makes harsh criticism of the Kremlin and provides space for commentary...
A world in need, Paul Rogers
A hurricane of crises across the world - financial meltdown, economic recession, social inequality, military power, food insecurity, climate change - presents governments, citizens and thinkers with a defining challenge: to rethink what...
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