A View of Democracy, Forged in Totalitarian Prisons
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The former Soviet dissident Natan Sharansky's book often reads like a punchy distillation of the Bush White House's worldview.
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Singing, socialising, and scepticism: the Chechen elections received a mixture of responses from the local population.
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YANGON : Myanmar&#39;s mass release of nearly 4,000 prisoners has sparked faint hopes for political detainees including pro-democracy figures, but one observer it was aimed at easing international criticism over last month&#39;s power struggle.
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Russia is joining the ranks of nascent dictatorships, and Vladimir Putin is the executioner of Russian democracy. Right? Wrong. Russia is not a dictatorship, and the political system Putin is trying to reshape is not a democracy.
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Viktor Parshutkin knows the occupational hazards of being a Russian defense lawyer: long hours, stress, and the risk of imprisonment in a jail so overcrowded the inmates have to sleep in shifts.
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Viktor Parshutkin knows the occupational  hazards of being a Russian defense lawyer: long hours, stress,  and the risk of imprisonment in a jail so overcrowded the  inmates have to sleep in shifts.
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Food, fuel, and know-how are flowing into the totalitarian state, but citizens are dispirited.
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A mysterious death in London brings back bad memories--and disturbs the new dissidents who defend Russia's freedoms
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Comment is free: Max Hastings: In Russia, as elsewhere, a lack of transparency feeds a gangster culture that hamstrings social and economic progress
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Through protests, militant inmates in Morocco have won perks that make them the envy of the other inmates.
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The dark comedy is stirring memories of a former dictator known for rights abuses and a tough line on Pyongyang.
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Veteran British playwright Michael Frayn's distinguished political biography, "Democracy," has hit Broadway in the gut with its powerful re-examination of a headline case of Cold War betrayal in Germany, making ...
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Comment is free: Timothy Garton Ash: From Poland to Italy, democracies struggle to create mass parties that will last longer than a speed-dating session.
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Blog: Art installation puts autonomous robots behind bars for people to observe.
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KLERDEY, Burma -- For a repressive police state, Burma has borders that are curiously porous.
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The treason verdict of opposition leader Maia Topuria, now under appeal, is seen as a test of the ex-Soviet republic's efforts to improve its courts.
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California Democrat's experience during the Holocaust shaped his concern for human rights.