I am shocked, shocked, to find that...
May. 21st, 2013 10:18 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
winterbadgerWell, no I'm not.
Guatemala's top court annuls Rios Montt genocide conviction
(I was only surprised he was convicted to begin with.)
The head of Russia's only independent polling agency, Levada Centre, has said it could be forced to close after a warning from officials that it had to register as a "foreign agent" (a Soviet-era label in Russia, suggesting that an organization is a front for spying) because it was involved in political activity (it conducts opinion polls independent of government direction) and received foreign funding (less than 5% of its budget).
Guatemala's top court annuls Rios Montt genocide conviction
(I was only surprised he was convicted to begin with.)
The head of Russia's only independent polling agency, Levada Centre, has said it could be forced to close after a warning from officials that it had to register as a "foreign agent" (a Soviet-era label in Russia, suggesting that an organization is a front for spying) because it was involved in political activity (it conducts opinion polls independent of government direction) and received foreign funding (less than 5% of its budget).
