Here is an interesting twist, apparently, former President Niyazov’s poetry works are still necessary to learn in order to graduate in Turkmenistan. I am suprised that President Lukashenko didn’t follow the trend…yet.
Academic freedom issues
No master’s degrees or doctorates have been granted in the country since 1998. Government permission was required to study abroad and receive [...]

Here is the same summary, notable is a number of hate crimes that took place.
Academic freedom issues
The government did not restrict academic freedom, but academic freedom was an underdeveloped and poorly understood concept. Most major universities were state owned; while university rectors had a degree of autonomy; curriculum and degree standards were tightly controlled by [...]

Just like in a previous post, here is some selected topics from the Human Rights Report published by the US Department of State.
Academic freedom issues
According to the report published by the U.S. Department of State the government did not restrict academic freedom; however, human rights and academic organizations questioned whether the convictions of some individuals [...]

The US Dpartment of State released its Human Rights Report for 2007. Below is a summary of some issues. By no means it is a detailed summary, however, as soon as I get more time all topics will be updated and expanded.
Academic freedom issues:
The government restricted academic freedom, in part by requiring educational institutions to [...]

We are back! The wrongways.com stuff took a week off to ski and snowboard in Vermont and now, we are officially back in the real World where internet connection is not a problem, cell-phones are not in a roaming mode and a cable TV one remote control away. In the unreal World where we spent [...]

On July 4, 2002, President Bush signed an executive order designed to speed citizenship applications of non-citizens who served in the military as of Sept. 11, 2001. The very same day, I witnessed an atmosphere of excitement in one of local restaurant were the few friends of mine worked at that time.
“Does it mean that [...]

And here we will stay. In the middle of the wrong lane. Thinking against the traffic.