Just a quibble. Kag writes:
And a blow for Russia, too. You can't call Russia a democratic state, but at
least we don't deny a third of our citizens their rights, like Latvia.
Russian national politics holds a contradictory position, between liberal
declarations of equality and the daily
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2004/04/01/008.html
U.S. School of Democracy
By Boris Kagarlitsky
A recently published report on civil liberties in 2003 by the New York-based
Freedom House organization has recognized 89 countries as free, 55 as
partially free and 48 as not free. The
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