from Russia Reform Monitor No. 1335, December 21, 2005 American Foreign Policy Council, Washington, DC.
Freedom House has
again placed Russia among the world’s “Not Free” countries in its
annual Freedom in the World survey. “The Putin leadership’s
anti-democratic tendencies appeared, if anything, more pronounced in
2005,” the New York-based human rights group stated in a press release.
Freedom House lowered Russia’s rating from “Partly Free” to “Not Free”
in last year’s survey.