The Worst of the Worst 2007
THE WORST OF THE WORST THE WORLD’S MOST REPRESSIVE SOCIETIES 2007 FREEDOM HOUSE Washington • New York Almaty • Amman • Belgrade • Bishkek Bucharest • Budapest • Johannesburg Kuwait • Kyiv • Mexico City • Tunis FREEDOM HOUSE Board of Trustees Peter Ackerman, Chairman Stuart Eizenstat, Vice Chairman Mark Palmer, Vice Chairman Walter J. Schloss, Treasurer Ned W. Bandler, Secretary, Governance and Ethics Officer Max M. Kampelman, Chairman Emeritus Bette Bao Lord, Chairman Emeritus Jacqueline Adams, Kenneth L. Adelman, Bernard Aronson, Antonia Cortese, Alan P. Dye, Carleton S. Fiorina, Thomas S. Foley, Malcolm S. Forbes, Jr., Theodore J. Forstmann, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Sidney Harman, Robert Hormats, John T. Joyce, Kathryn Dickey Karol, Farooq Kathwari, Anthony Lake, Nancy L. Lane, Jay Mazur, Michael McFaul, John Norton Moore, Azar Nafisi, David Nastro, Andrew Nathan, Diana Villiers Negroponte, P.J. O'Rourke, Carlos Pascual, David M. Rubinstein, Calvin Sims, Arthur Waldron, Ruth Wedgwood, Wendell L. Willkie, II Richard Sauber, Of Counsel Jennifer L. Windsor, Executive Director Survey Team – Freedom in the World 2007 Aili Piano and Arch Puddington, Editors Camille Eiss, Assistant Editor Alexis Arieff Karin Deutsch Karlekar Sarah Repucci Gordon Bardos Lydia Khalil Mark Yaron Rosenberg Britta Crandall Daniel Kimmage Hani Sabra Jake Dizard Astrid Larson Sanja Tatic Daniel P. Erikson Eleanor Marchant Sanam Vakil Thomas W. Gold Edward McMahon Peter VonDoepp Robert Lane Greene Melissa Murphy Christopher Walker David Hawk Manuel Orozco Thomas Webb Barrie Hofmann Robert Orttung Anny Wong Linda Stern, Copy Editor Tyler Roylance, Line Editor Mark Wolkenfeld, Production Coordinator Advisory Board – Freedom in the World 2007 Central and Eastern Europe, former Soviet Union Alexander Motyl, Rutgers University Rajan Menon, Lehigh University John S.
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