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the In- ternet and other digital media. In the wake of the col- lapse of the Soviet Union, communist governments in 8 EFTA00804732 Freedom House Eastern Europe, and military dictatorships elsewhere, there was an explosion of newspapers, radio and television stations, and other independent media with diver
sedly declining powers like the United States and the EU's founding members? The Russian government has also developed friendly ties to parties in Slovakia. Marian Kotleba, leader of the far-right People's Party-Our Slovakia, supported Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych in his decision to reject an
r. In 2002, the U.N. Development Program's Arab Human Development Report noted that the spread of democracy in recent decades from Latin America to Eastern Europe "has barely reached the Arab States." It was precisely this lack of freedom, the report argued, that "undermines human development and is one of th
Hungarian economic scholar and publicist Laszlo Lengyel. "The danger of this is that entire social classes or regions like those in eastern Poland, Slovakia and Hungary fall victim to hopelessness and extremism." This is brought into particularly stark relief by the relative success of other political
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igital media. In the wake of the col- lapse of the Soviet Union, communist governments in HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_019242 --- PAGE BREAK --- Freedom House Eastern Europe, and military dictatorships elsewhere, there was an explosion of newspapers, radio and television stations, and other independent media with diverse
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_019243 →osedly declining powers like the United States and the EU's founding members.’ The Russian government has also developed friendly ties to parties in Slovakia. Marian Kotleba, leader of the far-right People’s Party—Our Slovakia, supported Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych in his decision to reject an as
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