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 [...]

Captive Nations Week has been conducted every third week in July for the past 48 years. This event has been held annually since 1959. When Congress designated the third week of July as a time to remember once-independent countries which are now under Soviet rule. The Captive Nations Committee and approximately 50 supporters—mostly from [...]

Oh, that lovely breath of the warm Black Sea. Unmatched nightlife. Crazy prices for the housing, quality of which would give a birth to an inexpressible confusion to anybody who ever cared about the difference between one-, two- and minus 5 star hotels. (By the way, there, in the place we are talking about, small [...]

Some time ago we wrote about a documentary movie ‘Lessons of Belarusian Language”. Back then it was unavailable to viewers due to various factors. However, thanks to comments from our readers we are happy to say that this movie is available on line! below is a recap of a blog and the movie itself.
Radio Svaboda [...]

Looking at the blinking cursor, I can’t collect my thoughts. Strangely, it happens when I just finished reading “Media And The American Mind” written by Daniel J. Czitrom and an array of ideas simply stormed my mind. Starting with Samuel Morse and ending with Marshall McLuhan, a famous media theorist, the book sheds some light [...]

I remember a day when I talked with a friend of mine regarding a chance to go to Vermont and spend a week or so on a slopes of the Okemo mountain.
-Do you want to ski or ride? My friend asked me. Of course I wanted to ride a snowboard for it is considered more [...]

PRAGUE, August 18, 2006 (RFE/RL) –Fifteen years after the failed coup that triggered the collapse of the Soviet Union and transformed his own life, former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev talks to RFE/RL’s North Caucasus Service about the events of August 1991 and their legacy.
RFE/RL: In his annual address to the Federal Assembly in 2005, Russian [...]

Each night I began the story again as I had for my entire first year of living in the building called Sundeep, in the neighborhood called Sunnyside, borough called queens, city called New York, country called America.
I was in the America that my childhood friends watched about on television, in between the brownouts, daytime [...]