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"In 2000, President Bill Clinton compared China's efforts to control internet content"

"www.freedomhouse.org... EFTA00804761"

"Since 2012, both Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping have doubled down on existing efforts to stamp out internal dissent"

"Since 2012, both Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping have doubled down on existing efforts to stamp out internal dissent"

"Moscow has effectively prevented foreign broadcasting stations... even as it steadily expands the reach of its own mouthpieces... the news service Spu"

"China blocks the websites of mainstream foreign media while encouraging its corporations to purchase influence in popular culture abroad through contr"

"Countries that fit this description include Hungary, Bolivia, Ecuador, and, if recent trends continue, Poland"

"Under Vladimir Putin, the Russian regime pioneered the capture of the media"

"Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and the Venezuelan chavista leadership all behave as if there are no valid controls on their authority"

"The Hungarian prime minister, Viktor °Man, has instituted a thorough overhaul of the country's constitution"

"With the formation of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, Russia, China, and a number of Central Asian governments have come together"

"With the formation of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, Russia, China, and a number of Central Asian governments have come together"

"Russia, China, Iran, and Venezuela at various times have offered diplomatic support, loans, fuel, or direct military aid to the regime of Bashar al-As"

"Russia, China, Iran, and Venezuela at various times have offered diplomatic support, loans, fuel, or direct military aid to the regime of Bashar al-As"

"Arch Puddington is Distinguished Scholar for Democracy Studies at Freedom House"

"David J. Kramer, former president of Freedom House"

"Russia, under President Vladimir Putin, has played an outsized role"

"Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin"

"Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin in Beijing. 2016."

"Russia has taken the lead, with the state's assertion of authority over history textbooks and the process, encouraged by Putin, of reassessing the his"

"The system built under Vladimir Putin is defined by the following characteristics: 1. Control over the commanding heights of the media"

"Dmitry Kiselyov, a controversial television presenter, was named to head the new entity [Rossiya Segodnya]"

"Dmitry Kiselyov... was named to head the new entity... He actually embraces his identity as the Kremlin's chief propagandist"

"Russian media generally were notable for their liveliness and diversity during the presidency of Boris Yeltsin"

"reforms introduced by Mikhail Gorbachev in his campaign to modernize the Soviet system"

"Neil MacFarquhar and Ivan Nechepurenko.-Aleksei Navalnv. Viable Putin Rival Is Barred from a Presidential Run:New York Times"

"Alibaba Buying South China Morning Post Aiming to Influence Media"

"The Kremlin's Legal Campaign against Civil Society... required nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) that receive foreign funding and carry out broadly"

"How Sony Sanitized the New Adam Sandler Movie to Please Chinese Censors"

"Mikhail Khodorkovsky was dispatched to a Russian prison for 10 years for daring to challenge Putin."

"Chavez used his authority over media licensing to destroy Radio Caracas Television (RCTV), a popular broadcast station that was aligned with the oppos"

"Aurelio Concheso, an analyst with Transparency Venezuela"

"operatives from Vladimir Putin's United Russia party in that month's parliamentary elections"

"Breaking Down Democracy: Goals, Strategies, and Methods of Modern Authoritarians Chapter 1 Validating Autocracy through the Ballot"

"Jessica T. Mathews, Power Shift; Foreign Affairs (January/February 1997)"

"Serbia, where student activists organized a campaign that eventually brought about the downfall of President Slobodan Milotevio in 2000"

"Yes, we falsified the last election.... In fact, 93.5 percent [of ballots were] for President Lukashenka."

"We're not perfect. But we do have democracy. Hugo Chavez"

"visits to China Central Television (CCTV)... Xi admonished the assembled journalists to give absolute support to the party leadership"

"Visual China Group, a mainland company, has purchased the image and licensing division of Corbis"

"Wanda purchased Legendary Entertainment, a production company, in 2016"

"Censorship officials quashed coverage of the Panama Papers"

"Mikhail Khodorkovsky was dispatched to a Russian prison for 10 years for daring to challenge Putin."

"Andrei Navalny... was effectively eliminated from the 2018 presidential contest after being convicted in a trumped-up embezzlement case."

"the leader of the Unity and Justice Party, Birtukan Mideksa"

"opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi and her National League for Democracy (NLD)"

"Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orban gave what has come to be known as his illiberal democracy speech"

"In Russia, the Putin leadership praises the achievements of Stalin and aspires to the superpower status of the Soviet Union."

"In a passage devoted to the obstacles facing his own political party, Fidesz, as it seeks to build an alternative to liberalism, Orbfin singled out ci"

"In July 2014, Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orban gave what has come to be known as his illiberal democracy speech before an ethnic Hungarian audien"