Actual modernization,says Nemtsov, is impossible without naming and removing the people responsible for the stagnation and authoritarian rule in the first place.

VOA: standard.2009.11.12

Indonesia is a relatively new democracy and the proposal to expand police powers reminds some human rights groups of the country's authoritarian past.

VOA: standard.2009.09.10

The authoritarian techniques dynasty are pretty effective in using both rewards and fear to maintain personal control,".

VOA: standard.2009.03.26

The Yellow Shirts draw much of their support from middle-class and wealthy Thais, and they consider Mr.Thaksin to have been corrupt and authoritarian.

VOA: standard.2010.05.25

Tymoshenko opponents express fears of what they perceive as her authoritarian streak and poor economic skills.

VOA: standard.2010.02.01

"To see a neighbor that really was a backwater, an underdeveloped authoritarian country now emerge as a model,as a leader, must be very frustrating."

VOA: standard.2010.07.26

The president's opponents say he is authoritarian and is to blame for the war with Russia.

VOA: standard.2009.05.05

The fact there is no clear-cut front-runner, as is the norm in more stagnant, authoritarian states nearby, has led many voters to seize their chance to make a difference.

VOA: standard.2010.03.07

Weber said the report recommends fighting poverty and using U.S.political and economic leverage with authoritarian governments to promote democratic reforms and create a middle class and a civil society.

VOA: standard.2009.04.24

Felgenhauer says decisions about such matters in Russia are made behind closed doors and are not always fully thought through, which he characterizes as a feature of authoritarian regimes.

VOA: standard.2009.03.20

There are all sorts of security problems. And then there are problems that we in the West would perhaps regard as a little less legitimate, like the simple desire of authoritarian governments to keep tabs on what their people are thinking and doing.

VOA: standard.2010.08.11

Mrs.Aquino's coffin, draped in the Philippine flag and laid over a bed of yellow flowers, was carried in a large truck Monday through a section of Manila's EDSA highway: the site of the "people power" movement she led in 1986 that overthrew the authoritarian Marcos government.

VOA: standard.2009.08.03