Defending glasnost
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The Glasnost Defence Foundation was set up in the turbulent days of 1991, and has since endeavored to project dissent in a virtually non-democratic setting. Five years into the post-Soviet era presents a dismal picture of the information scenario in Russia. Freedom of speech involves free interplay between the society, the state, and the press. But with the lackexistence of supporting democratic institutions in Russia, effective feedback from the society to the state is lacking. The Glasnost Defence Foundation is currently engaged in protecting the legal rights of journalists in Russia.
Publication Name: Journal of Democracy
Subject: Political science
ISSN: 1045-5736
Year: 1996
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More foreign research students stay in US to cash in on boom
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Foreign research students receiving their doctorates in the US are more likely to remain there and take on postdoctoral fellowships or jobs in industry, according to the National Science Foundation (NSF). Students from China, representing a third of the total, are the most likely to remain in the US, followed by those from India and the United Kingdom. Life sciences students are the most likely to remain in the US.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 1998
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From the editor
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The recent interest in ethics can be explained in terms of shifts in society. People turn to ethics when the institutions that socialize and legitimize individuals appear to be collapsing. The study of ethics fills the vacuum left by the state's incapacity to solve society's problems. In the future, ethics may place more emphasis on how to avoid moral dilemmas, rather than on how to solve them once they occur.
Publication Name: Ethics
Subject: Philosophy and religion
ISSN: 0014-1704
Year: 1993
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