Institute to Delve Into U.S. Democracy

Source: The Moscow Times

A Russian foundation devoted to democracy and human rights is setting up shop in the United States.

The Moscow-based Institute of Democracy and Cooperation officially registered its New York branch on Dec. 31, several weeks after registering a branch in Paris, the chairman of the foundation said Friday.

Anatoly Kucherena, a lawyer and member of the Public Chamber, said his foundation's U.S. office would organize expert discussions about elections and human rights issues -- while helping improve Western perceptions of Russia.

"The improvement of Russia's image abroad is, of course, an important goal," Kucherena said by telephone.



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Democracy? I know we gassed our own people in Iraq, but still. There is a history of a deep rift among various factions in this country, clearly, we are not ready for democracy.

Where ever it comes from.
It's not like we're getting any democracy from Washington.

isn't putin ex-kgb? How much do you think the kgb would have loved to have something like this in america back in the cold war? sounds like the perfect spy cover :)

woundedkarma

Vladimir Putin was a KGB man, very high up in the hiarcy to if I are not wrong.. And when a man with his past are setting up think-tanks to give US a taste of democracy, then you know something is _really bad_ in US.. mr Putin are not what you would call a heart fully democrat, rater a man with the taste for the more authority like regimes... But he is a popular man in Russia, with a score card that mr Bush can just dream about... And he have even showing some balls with the oblicatry who was stealing Russia blind between 1991 and 1999...

If this thing had been happening under the cold war, I would bet that US intel service would have been over it, and they would never had getting something doing, because US intel would have taken it apart, before it started..
But after 8 year with mr Bush, many in the Intel may se it as it is...

Diclotican

Sorry my bad English, not my native language

...on democracy. He was so annoyed, by all these "You unfairly used government ressources to support your party and disrupt the other party's demonstrations."-allegations, that he wanted to exact revenge.

Now he has a tool inside the US, that's closely monitoring it's (electoral) flaws.

Prepare for some ugly populistic overstatements.