Re: Kargalitsky on rating democracies

2004-04-06 Thread Chris Doss
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

Kargalitsky on rating democracies

2004-04-05 Thread k hanly
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

Re: Kargalitsky on rating democracies

2004-04-05 Thread Devine, James
] http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine -Original Message- From: k hanly [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, April 05, 2004 9:49 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PEN-L] Kargalitsky on rating democracies http://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2004/04/01/008.html U.S. School