1. Xbox 360 to be usead as electronic voting system
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...e need to go where young Americans are," said Heather Smith, executive director of Rock the Vote, in a statement. "There's no doubt in our minds that many are on Xbox 360 and Xbox Live." M...

2. Italy: the ungovernable nation
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...is unresolved "conflicts of interest" as media entrepreneur and prime minister, and his ineptness as a statesman make many Italians as well as those of other nationalities wonder how it is possible...

3. Georgia?s democratic stalemate
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... to Rose Revolution: Delayed Transition in the Former Soviet Union (Ashgate, 2005) The state of emergency imposed for nine days in November 2007, when opposition television channels...

4. Battling KGB Inc, by Garry Kasparov
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...ch year of his presidency, Vladimir Putin has moved my country back towards the dark days of the police state that is still fresh in my memory. After I appeared on a panel discussion on BBC televisi...

5. Political Power in Africa
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...de after independence in 1960, the small West African country of Benin had no fewer than twelve heads of state, every one of whom was overthrown in a coup d’état. This striking record of ...

6. When will the Chinese People be Free?
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...ed in the Fall 1996 issue of The National Interest, began by observing that all countries (leaving aside states that make nearly all their money from oil exports) which had attained a Gross Domestic P...

7. Venezuela: is Hugo Chávez in control?
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...Venezuelan street. Just as the president's socialism jostles uneasily with the habits of an oil-rich state, the conviction that a new tyranny is settling into place ignores abundant evidence that ...

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