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How Internet Censorship Is Curbing Innovation in China
The existence of the Great Firewall hurts China's economy -- but the issue is more complicated than you think.
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The existence of the Great Firewall hurts China's economy -- but the issue is more complicated than you think.
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How a LiveJournal blogger became the Russian president's worst enemy.
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Feng Xiaogang -- often called "China's Spielberg" -- brings up a taboo subject in a speech.
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His case is sending a message that the Kremlin is frightened of a blogger with a cult following who made his name exposing graft in high places.
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The upcoming Bolotnaya trials, which are named after the square that hosted some of Russia's fiercest protests, have come to symbolize the brutal tactics employed by the Kremlin.
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Venezuela's president faces not only a credibility challenge but massive economic problems that got their start in 1918.
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Reports that police are arresting and intimidating those living closest to the race tracks add to the kingdom's already worrying situation.
Christopher Reeve
The country is opening up to Western influence after decades in isolation. The recent changes there are both dramatic and amusing.
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The Egyptian president has been promised $5 billion in loans from his biggest Arab backers, but the money won't stave off disaster in the country for long.
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Chavez established a frightening, repressive form of fake democracy. All signs indicate that his successors will pick up where he left off.
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The feminist group attacked the Russian president and several other world leaders in Germany this week. Here's why they think toplessness is the most effective form of protest.
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Meanwhile, the country's armed forces are busy building a discount shopping mall in order to curry favor with citizens.
Ahmad Masood/Reuters
Well-wishers should allow Afghanistan's police and civil society to deal with cases of child marriage, rather than dump money on the situation.
Bobby Yip/Reuters
An interview with Paul Tang, whose People's Recreation Community has tapped into an intriguing new market.
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In the past year, the country has shown slow but steady progress that may put it at the forefront of LGBT rights in the post-Soviet region.
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If the opposition activist is jailed even as he manages to convince the public that he is innocent, his stature will only grow.
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How the country's informal power networks undermine formal institutions.
Naseer Ahmed/Reuters
Imran Khan is a long shot, but his platform of hope, change, and transparency sure sounds a lot like that of a certain 2008 U.S. candidate.
Mohamed Abd El Ghany/Reuters
Sure, the democratic revolution has stumbled. But there are also amazing signs of progress.
Mohamed Abd El Ghany/Reuters
Ramy Essam got his start putting Arab Spring chants to song. Now he's rewritten the lyrics to take down the man he says is worse than Mubarak.
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