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No More Mr. Nice Guy 01/17/2007 - 20:34 / NewsweekVladimir Putin slaps down hapless Belarus. But eventually the hard-fisted Russian president will find that the name of this game is blowback.
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A uniform trend? How democracy worldwide is on the back foot 01/17/2007 - 20:25 / Financial TimesConcluding one of its more sombre annual reports since the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the cold war, Freedom House warns of possible further stagnation or even a reversal of recent gains, and calls for a strengthening of pro-democracy initiatives led by the world's big powers and international institutions.
Similar calls for a response to the "backlash" have raised the question of whether the US - or at least the Bush administration in its final two years - has the capacity, the will and the credibility to lead the way.
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Censorship of Russian TV Channels in Belarus 01/17/2007 - 20:16 / Charter97.orgNews editions of the TV channel Rossiya are broadcasted an hour later in Belarus these days. A worker of one of Russian TV channels in an interview to the Charter’97 press-center supposed that in this way the Belarusian authorities had left a possibility for them to censor Russian news if necessary.
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Smith Bill Promoting Human Rights in Belarus Becomes Law 01/17/2007 - 20:13 / Charter97.orgA bill authored by U.S. Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ) promoting democracy and human rights in Belarus was signed into law over the weekend by President George W. Bush. "Alexander Lukashenka is Europe`s last dictator and he rules Belarus with an iron fist," Smith said. "Lukashenka continues to systematically repress democratic activists and violate the basic human rights of the Belarusian people. By reauthorizing the Belarus Democracy Reauthorization Act, we are showing that the U.S. stands on the side of the Belarusian people in their effort to live in a free, democratic state not of the side of their oppressor."
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Suspected Belarusian Spy Extradited To Poland 01/17/2007 - 20:12 / Naviny.bySergei Monich, a Belarusian national suspected of espionage against Poland, has been extradited to the country by the Lithuanian authorities, the Regnum news agency reported with reference to the Lithuanian prosecutor general's office.
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Oil-and-gas conflict between Russia and Belarus can repeat 01/17/2007 - 20:06 / RegnumThe Russian-Belarusian oil-and-gas conflict seems to be over, as the countries completed their talks on oil transit on January 12. However, experts believe that the conflict can be repeated again. Institute of Energy and Finance Foundation President Leonid Grigoryev explained to a REGNUM correspondent why it could happen.
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