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me.? A prominent theme that runs through authoritarian media is the imperfect nature of electoral processes in the leading democracies, especially the United States. The goal is less to portray elections in Russia, Venezuela, or Iran as paragons of democratic practice than to muddy the waters—to make the case t
ranged from dissidents and Jewish refuseniks in the So- viet Union to those who resisted right-wing juntas in Latin America. Soviet dissidents like Natan Sharansky and Vladimir Bukovsky were the focus of international campaigns organized by human rights organizations and cautiously embraced by the
des that it was likely to go wrong. Not only were the aides right. Assad had ended up delivering an extraordinary personal rebuff to the President of the United States. Now, I was again asking President Clinton for a summit, and I knew Madeleine Albright, Dennis Ross and others would be highly sceptical. “I understa
kharov, an outspoken human rights advocate and, until he was finally released and allowed to leave in 1986, a political prisoner in the gulag. Though Natan’s party was not going to offer a formal endorsement for any candidate, I met with him to press the case for “security and peace,” the message I’d tri
des that it was likely to go wrong. Not only were the aides right. Assad had ended up delivering an extraordinary personal rebuff to the President of the United States. Now, I was again asking President Clinton for a summit, and I knew Madeleine Albright, Dennis Ross and others would be highly sceptical. "I understa
kharov, an outspoken human rights advocate and, until he was finally released and allowed to leave in 1986, a political prisoner in the gulag. Though Natan's party was not going to offer a formal endorsement for any candidate, I met with him to press the case for "security and peace," the message I'd tri
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.’ A prominent theme that runs through authoritarian media is the imperfect nature of electoral processes in the leading democracies, especially the United States. The goal is less to portray elections in Russia, Venezuela, or |ran as paragons of democratic practice than to muddy the waters—to make the
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_019246 →rominent theme that runs through authoritarian media is the imperfect nature of electoral processes in the leading democracies, especially the United States. The goal is less to portray elections in Russia, Venezuela, or |ran as paragons of democratic practice than to muddy the waters—to make the case th
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_019246 →may feel emboldened to drop their quasi-democratic camouflage due to the lack of diplomatic repercus- sions for such actions. The European Union and the United States have criticized Belarus as “Europe's last dictatorship,” but they always seem willing to give Lu- kashenka another chance to improve relations based
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_019247 →rists to sabotage the Russian commercial airliner that was destroyed after takeoff in the Sinai in 2015. ¢ A three-year-old boy was crucified by the U.S.- backed Ukrainian army in Slovyansk in 2014. ¢ The United States is planning a major war in Eu- rope to enable Washington to cancel its national debt
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_019249 →Entities connected to both United States and Natan

George W. Bush
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Prince Andrew
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John F. Kennedy
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Marc Rich
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Donald Trump
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Bill Clinton
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Virginia Giuffre
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Barack Obama
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Michael Cohen
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Alfredo Rodriguez
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Wilbur Ross
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Vicky Ward
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Hillary Clinton
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Vladimir Putin
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Benjamin Netanyahu
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Bashar al-Assad
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Mao Zedong
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Ronald Reagan
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