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Springtime for Dima?
22nd May 2010 Rumours abound that a new, pro-western foreign policy shift is underway in Moscow. But if Russia really wants to attract European investment and American technology for the long-term it...
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Book Review: “Putin’s Labyrinth.”
June 6th 2010 Over the past couple of days I have been reading “Putin’s Labyrinth” by Steve LeVine (Random House – 2008). The book provides a good survey of a number of aspects of the domestic...
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Oh dear, ODIHR.
1st November 2010, Democratist is rather concerned about the results of Sunday’s local elections in Ukraine. According to an exit poll by international market research firm GfK, President Yanukovych’s...
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Book Review: “Advancing Democracy Abroad: Why We Should and How We Can” by...
29th November 2010. As Michael McFaul, Professor of Political Science at Stanford University, and latterly Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs and senior director of...
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Belarus 2010: Most likely methods of manipulation and fraud.
1st December 2010, - It is always hard to predict exactly which techniques will be used to rig a particular election in advance, especially since these may vary according to the changing legal...
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Belarus 2010: An “internal matter.”
December 21st 2010. Democratist is disappointed and upset, but not especially surprised to learn of the results and fallout of yesterday’s presidential election in Belarus. Since the signing of a...
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The Second Khordokovsky Trial and the “Virtual Mafia State.”
31st December 2010, From time to time Democratist enjoys dipping into Truth and Beauty, an intelligent if cynical pro-putin blog run by Eric Kraus, the (fairly openly) mercenary Moscow-based French...
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Belarus 2010: How they cheated.
14th February 2010, The Belarusian domestic nonpartisan election monitoring NGO, Human Rights Defenders for Free Elections has just released their Final Report on the 19th December 2010 elections....
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The Enduring Relevance of NATO in “an Asian Age.”
v March 21st 2011, Over the weekend Democratist has been watching a video of a recent public debate at the LSE entitled, “Out of Europe? The United States in an Asian Age.” The debate brought together...
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Ekaterina Zatuliveter and the Neglect of Public Opinion.
March 24th 2011, This morning Democratist has been enjoying yet another prize example of media manipulation, disinformation and obfuscation, courtesy of the (curiously) increasingly amateurish Russia...
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