Media Manipulation
May 26, 2016
Freedom for Khadija, But Not For Azerbaijan
Guest post by Elspeth Suthers. On May 25, 2016—two days before her fortieth birthday—Azerbaijani journalist Khadija Ismayilova was released from the prison where she had spent the past one year, five...
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April 19, 2016
Hollywood with Chinese Characteristics
Guest post by Anne-Marie Brady, contributing author to the edited volume, Authoritarianism Goes Global: The Challenge to Democracy. On February 19, 2016, Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party...
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January 28, 2016
Freedom in the World: What’s Behind the Decade of Decline?
Guest post by Arch Puddington. According to Freedom in the World, a report issued annually by Freedom House, global democracy has experienced a decade of decline. This represents far-and-away the most...
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January 27, 2016
In Ethiopia, a Mix of Regulations and Repression Silence Independent Voices
Guest post by Simegnish "Lily" Mengesha. After a tense year marked by widely-criticized elections in which Ethiopia’s ruling party won 100 percent of parliamentary seats, 2015 concluded with yet more repression...
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December 3, 2015
Tailor-Made Propaganda, Direct from Russia
Guest post by Robert Orttung. In 2015, Forbes named Russian President Vladimir Putin the most powerful man in the world for the third year in a row. This selection was made...
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November 19, 2015
Controlling the Script: The Kremlin’s Disinformation Machine
By now, many have viewed with puzzled amusement the mega-macho images trotted out by Russian media outlets of President Vladimir Putin riding a Harley, winning hockey games, and playing with...
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