Canadian Embassy - Washington, D.C. I want first of all to thank Kevin O’Shea and the Canadian Embassy for hosting this Fourth Annual Seymour Martin Lipset Lecture on Democracy in the World.  Marty made Canadians and Americans interesting to each other by explaining how and why we differ,...

On Monday, October 16 at 11:00 a.m. the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) will host a memorial gathering in honor of Anna Politkovskaya, the courageous reporter for the Moscow newspaper Novaya Gazeta who was brutally murdered at her apartment building on Saturday, October 7. The mother...

Ludmila Mikhailovna Alekseeva Ludmila Alekseeva was a founding member of the Moscow Helsinki Group and has served as president of the International Helsinki Foundation since 1998. She graduated from the history faculty of Moscow State University in 1950 and, following the death of Stalin...

HONORING HEROES OF HUMAN RIGHTS AND DEMOCRACY IN RUSSIA June 9, 2004 On June 9, the National Endowment for Democracy...