Documents on Democracy

Issue Date April 2007
Volume 18
Issue 2
Page Numbers 179-81
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  • Full text of an open letter to Russian president Vladimir Putin, signed by more than a hundred public figures from around the world, in response to the decision to close the Society for Russian-Chechen Friendship.
  • Message delivered by Democratic Republic of the Congo president Joseph Kabila, acknowledging his victory after two rounds of elections in July and October 2006-the country’s first multiparty polls since 1965. (Also see the essay by Herbert F. Weiss in this issue.)

Further Reading

Volume 24, Issue 1

Building Democratic Militaries

A review of The Soldier and the Changing State: Building Democratic Armies in Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Americas by Zoltan Barany.

Volume 23, Issue 1

Election Watch

Reports on recent elections in Argentina, Bahrain, Bulgaria, Cameroon, The Gambia, Guatemala, Guyana, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Liberia, Morocco, Nicaragua, Oman, Poland, Russia, Tunisia, Zambia.

Volume 21, Issue 4

Election Watch

Reports on recent elections in Burundi, Colombia, Ethiopia, Guinea, Philippines, Poland, Rwanda, São Tomé and Príncipe, Slovakia, and the Solomon Islands.