Russia

143 million people
10,730 USD GNI (PPP)
Internet:
Partly Free
Press:
Not Free
Not Free

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Russia: Attack Targets Investigative Journalist

September 28, 2016

In response to the assault against journalist and environmental activist Grigory Pasko in the Russian city of Barnaul, Freedom House issued a statement.
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Major Powers Air Conflicting Views on Democracy at UN

Tyler Roylance
Staff Editor
September 27, 2016

Representatives of Russia, China, and the United States all called for peace and cooperation at the UN General Assembly last week, but their rhetoric revealed key differences on democracy and human rights.
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Russian-Organized Elections in Crimea Lack Credibility

September 19, 2016

Russia held Duma elections inside the illegally-annexed and Russian-occupied Crimea on September 18. 
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Russia Sentences Online Journalist to Prison

September 6, 2016

A Russian court sentenced Zhalaudi Geriev, a journalist with the online news site Caucasian Knot, to three years imprisonment.

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Contending with Putin's Russia

As President Barack Obama enters his second term, relations with Russia present him with a set of thorny problems. This package of materials includes policy proposals, a summary of Russian legal restrictions on NGOs, a chronology of repressive actions under Vladimir Putin since 2000, and graphs illustrating Russia's score declines in Freedom House's annual reports.


 

Promise and Reversal: The Post-Soviet Landscape Twenty Years On

“Promise and Reversal: The Post-Soviet Landscape Twenty Years On,” marks the 20th anniversary of the failed Soviet coup of August 19, 1991. The retrospective essay examines the changes in the political rights and civil liberties in the former Soviet Union over the last two decades, as well as includes graphs and rankings that illustrate the region's performance in the annual Freedom House publications Freedom in the World and Freedom of the Press. The report  concludes that there is a serious and disturbing failure to embrace democratic institutions in most of the post-Soviet region.

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