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The NYT says the death of Nigeria's Abacha, whose five-year reign was marked by his brutal suppression of political opponents and who had no designated successor, initially prompted hopes among Nigerian political exiles and some world leaders that Nigeria, which had a flourishing democracy briefly in the early 1980s, might restore civilian government.
After King Birendra became sovereign in 1972 — tenth in the line of Shah rulers since King Prithvi the Great — a referendum in which all Nepalis over 21 were eligible to vote confirmed the popular preference for the panchayat system over a return to multi-party democracy.
Even the U.S. policy of promoting democracy and human rights is sometimes labeled hegemonist.
In Italy, Corriere della Sera ran an interview Thursday with former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, who, asked if the West had made mistakes in its behavior toward post-Communist Russia, said it had made several: regarding Yeltsin as the sole guarantor of Russian democracy, trying to impose economic policies that were completely unsuited to Russia, and closing both eyes to the corruption of the system.
One such site is the Democracy Network, which won a recent FEC ruling lifting the ban on nonprofits hosting online candidate debates.