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Twenty-Five Years On, Freedom in Central Europe Faces New Threats

Arch Puddington
Distinguished Fellow for Democracy Studies
August 28, 2014

A quarter-century after the 1989 revolutions, freedom prevails in Central Europe, but some politicians are turning their backs on democratic values at home and new liberation struggles abroad.
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Russian Energy Weapon in Europe

March 10, 2014


Russia’s natural gas supplies are potent economic weapons in the crisis with Ukraine – and in Russia’s relations with other eastern European countries and the European Union.
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Scotland, Separatism, and the Global Struggle for Democracy

Tyler Roylance
Staff Editor
December 11, 2013

Democracy advocates would do well to scrutinize the white paper released last month by the Scottish National Party in preparation for an independence referendum scheduled for September 2014. The document and the vote it heralds may have important implications for the viability of multinational democracies elsewhere, the global balance of forces between free and authoritarian countries, and the fundamental notion of democracy as a sturdy supplier of good governance.

 
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Bridging the EU-Eurasia Democracy Gap

Arch Puddington
Distinguished Fellow for Democracy Studies
Zselyke Csaky
Senior Researcher, Nations in Transit
November 26, 2013

The six countries of the Eastern Partnership program lag far behind their closest neighbors in the EU. But this is a testament to the bloc’s past successes, and a sign that it must help these states build up their democratic institutions.

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Evaluation of 2008-2011 UN Human Rights Council Candidates

On May 21, 2008, the UN General Assembly will elect 15 new Human Rights Council members. Twenty countries are candidates. Freedom House and UN Watch evaluated each candidate’s suitability for election to the Human Rights Council by examining its record of human rights protection at home and its record of human rights promotion at the UN.

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