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ations "appear to have decided that, to better advance their own interests, they need to knock Washington down a peg or two." Especially on the UN Security Council, the two authoritarian powers will continue taking positions that reflect their interest in curtailing American influence and thwarting what they e
nuary 2011, that they have the upper hand, and they do not need to fear public accountability or questioning," said Heba Morayef, a researcher for Human Rights Watch. In the more than seven weeks since Mr. Morsi's ouster, security EFTA_R1_00441178 EFTA01964430 forces have carried out at least three mass shoot
t present. . Chief Expresses Support for Military Action In late November, Ban Ki-moon, the United Nations secretary general, recommended that the Security Council endorse a plan by the African Union and the Economic Community of West African States to deploy a security force at the request of the Mali governme
have seized northern Mali, the military in the south appears intent on striking back at rivals who carried out a failed countercoup in late April. Human Rights Watch accused the army of engaging in a campaign of "horrific" abuse against opposing soldiers at the junta's headquarters outside Bamako. One witness rep
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al common themes: 1. Color revolutions are a U.S. strategy to break Russia's influence over its neighbors.' Nikolay Patrushev, secretary of Russia's Security Council and a longtime director of the Federal Security Service (FSB), has described color revolutions as an American scheme to bring down gov- ernments thro
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_019258 →emocratic Breakthrough (Washington: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2006). 9. “Briefing on Shrinking Space for Civil Society in Russia,” Human Rights Watch, February 24, 2017, https:/Awww.hrw.org/ news/2017/02/24/briefing-shrinking-space-civil-society-russia. 10. Tanya Lokshina, “Russia Civil Society De
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_019262 →Entities connected to both Security Council and Human Rights Watch

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