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In response to the death of Russian democratic opposition leader, Alexey Navalny, who died in Russian custody while unjustly incarcerated, Freedom House joins partners in requesting the Biden Administration to accelerate efforts to free imprisoned Russian democracy advocate, Vladimir Kara-Murza. The letter is included below and can be read here.

In 2023, Kara-Murza was sentenced to 25 years in prison in Russia on bogus charges for his criticism of Putin's repressive government and the Kremlin's ongoing war against Ukraine.

The McCain Institute at Arizona State University announced the launch of a new high-level task force on Defeating Disinformation Attacks on U.S. Democracy.

How $15M Democracy Programs For Pakistan Became Part Of US COVID Relief Bill Published: December 27, 2020 Recently, American lawmakers voted on a multi-trillion dollar government funding package that included a $900 billion COVID-19 relief bill. The interesting part it that the bill includes $15 million Democracy Programs and $10 million Gender Programs for Pakistan. What these programs would exactly do is another tricky question only those who managed to read the mammoth 5,593 pages bill in 2 ...

23 Dec 2020 Tuesday on Fox News Channel’s “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” host Tucker Carlson criticized Congress for the $2.3 trillion COVID-19 relief bill for millions going to international priorities and mocking it for the $600 in stimulus. Transcript as follows: CARLSON: Relief is finally here after tense negotiations and multiple rounds of televised theatrics, the Congress has passed a definitive spending bill. It is 5,593 pages long and it amounts to $2.3 trillion. That includes nearly a...

What i liked about the will children health insurance funded for next ten years. thats really important. $250 million for democracy programs in russia and sanctions in russia. that got passed and nobody saw that i thought that was probably a very good thing. but i think republican voters have to ask themselves they voted for a republican house and republican senate and republican president and they are still not getting what they want. so, in this 2018 election for the midterm, they should ask t...

What i liked about the will children health insurance funded for next ten years. thats really important. $250 million for democracy programs in russia and sanctions in russia. that got passed and nobody saw that i thought that was probably a very good thing. but i think republican voters have to ask themselves they voted for a republican house and republican senate and republican president and they are still not getting what they want. so, in this 2018 election for the midterm, they should ask t...

American controlled effort. now, i think there is a better opportunity to do that now that this is sweeping the entire region. and he did would out of his way at the press conference to say something about iran and i think they are edging up cautiously to something that approaches more of that span. >> chris: they are a long way away from that, though. >> a long way away but getting tougher in their rhetoric. >> i think i would like to see them get tougher in thick actions a little tuner here. >...

This is just an american controlled effort and now there is a better opportunity, now that it is sweeping the region and he went out of his way at the press conference to say something about iran and i think they are edging up, cautiously, to something that approaches more of that span. >> they are a long way away from that. >> but they are getting tougher in the rhetoric. >> id like to see them get tougher in the actions, sooner here -- >> would you like to see them openly support the freedom f...

American controlled effort. now, i think there is a better opportunity to do that now that this is sweeping the entire region. and he did would out of his way at the press conference to say something about iran and i think they are edging up cautiously to something that approaches more of that span. >> chris: they are a long way away from that, though. >> a long way away but getting tougher in their rhetoric. >> i think i would like to see them get tougher in thick actions a little tuner here. >...