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Posted: 5/8/2013 11:46:59 AM EST
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, second from right, sits with Moscow Helsinki Group founder and chairwoman Lyudmila Alekseyeva, right, and U.S. Ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul, center, during a meeting with Russia's civil society representatives at Spaso House, the ambassador's residence, in Moscow, on Wednesday May 8, 2013. (AP Photo/Mladen Antonov, Pool)
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Posted: 5/8/2013 11:46:59 AM EST
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, third from left, speaks with Moscow Helsinki Group founder and chairwoman Lyudmila Alekseyeva, fourth from left, during his meeting with civil society representatives at Spaso House, U.S. ambassador's residence, in Moscow, on Wednesday, May 8, 2013. Others are U.S. Ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul, left, Russian human rights activists Lev Ponomarev, second from right, Russia's only independent elections monitoring group Golos deputy head Grigory Melkonyants, third from right. (AP Photo/Mladen Antonov, Pool)
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Posted: 5/8/2013 11:46:59 AM EST
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, left, speaks with Moscow Helsinki Group founder and chairwoman Lyudmila Alekseyeva during his meeting with civil society representatives at Spaso House, U.S. Ambassador's residence, in Moscow, Wednesday, May 8, 2013. (AP Photo/Mladen Antonov, Pool)
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Posted: 5/5/2013 5:38:30 PM EST
This image provided by "For Another Cuba" shows a poster created by artist Rolando Pulido that was on display Saturday, May 4, 2013, in Miami as part of the "For Another Cuba" campaign. The works are part of an exhibit held in Miami by State of SATS, an activist group attempting to foster civil society and stimulate discussion about Cuba's future. (AP Photo/For Another Cuba)
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Posted: 3/29/2013 11:13:26 AM EST
FILE - In this Wednesday, March 6, 2013 file photo, an electoral worker at the call center of the the National Tallying Center reads a newspaper with a headline referring to problems in the vote counting and tallying process, in Nairobi, Kenya. Vote totals for Kenya's president-elect mysteriously increased between the time the ballot numbers were announced at some remote polling centers and when they reached the national tallying center in the capital, a lawyer for a civil society group told the country's Supreme Court on Wednesday, March 27, 2013. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File)
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Posted: 3/29/2013 11:13:26 AM EST
FILE - In this Wednesday, March 6, 2013 file photo, an electoral worker engages in a part of the tally verification process at the National Tallying Center in Nairobi, Kenya. Vote totals for Kenya's president-elect mysteriously increased between the time the ballot numbers were announced at some remote polling centers and when they reached the national tallying center in the capital, a lawyer for a civil society group told the country's Supreme Court on Wednesday, March 27, 2013. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File)
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Posted: 3/27/2013 1:03:26 PM EST
FILE - In this Wednesday, March 6, 2013 file photo, official representatives of the various political parties and electoral workers discuss while reviewing newly received results, at the National Tallying Center in Nairobi, Kenya. Vote totals for Kenya's president-elect mysteriously increased between the time the ballot numbers were announced at some remote polling centers and when they reached the national tallying center in the capital, a lawyer for a civil society group told the country's Supreme Court on Wednesday, March 27, 2013. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File)
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Posted: 3/27/2013 1:03:26 PM EST
FILE - In this Tuesday, March 5, 2013 file photo, an officer of the prisons service helps to carry ballot boxes for stacking after their results were tallied, at a vote tallying center in Nairobi, Kenya. Vote totals for Kenya's president-elect mysteriously increased between the time the ballot numbers were announced at some remote polling centers and when they reached the national tallying center in the capital, a lawyer for a civil society group told the country's Supreme Court on Wednesday, March 27, 2013. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File)
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Posted: 3/1/2013 11:18:33 AM EST
Kenyans watch as the President of the Republic of Kenya, Mwai Kibaki addresses the nation, Friday, March 1, 2013 in Nairobi, Kenya, ahead of the Monday March 4, 2013 General Election . Kenya's presidential election on Monday is the most important and complicated in the country's 50-year history. More than 1,000 people were killed after Kenya's 2007 vote, and political leaders, civil society groups and international governments are pressing Kenyans for no violence this time. (AP Photo/Sayyid Azim)
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Posted: 12/12/2012 6:18:33 AM EST
Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks during a state-of-the nation address in Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, Dec. 12, 2012. Russia’s President Vladimir Putin vowed Wednesday to strengthen the country’s economy and its military might and rejected what he described as foreign lecturing about democracy and attempts at foreign interference in the nation’s internal affairs. Putin delivered his first state-of-the nation address since winning a third term in March's election despite a wave of massive protests in Moscow. Putin has taken a tough course on dissent since his inauguration with arrests and searches of opposition activists and introduction of laws that impose heavy fines on protesters and rigid rules on civil society groups. (AP Photo/Misha Japaridze)
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Posted: 12/12/2012 6:18:33 AM EST
Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks during a state-of-the nation address in Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, Dec. 12, 2012. Russia’s President Vladimir Putin vowed Wednesday to strengthen the country’s economy and its military might and rejected what he described as foreign lecturing about democracy and attempts at foreign interference in the nation’s internal affairs. Putin delivered his first state-of-the nation address since winning a third term in March's election despite a wave of massive protests in Moscow. Putin has taken a tough course on dissent since his inauguration with arrests and searches of opposition activists and introduction of laws that impose heavy fines on protesters and rigid rules on civil society groups. (AP Photo/Misha Japaridze)
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Posted: 12/12/2012 6:18:33 AM EST
Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks during a state-of-the nation address in Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, Dec. 12, 2012. Russia’s President Vladimir Putin vowed Wednesday to strengthen the country’s economy and its military might and rejected what he described as foreign lecturing about democracy and attempts at foreign interference in the nation’s internal affairs. Putin delivered his first state-of-the nation address since winning a third term in March's election despite a wave of massive protests in Moscow. Putin has taken a tough course on dissent since his inauguration with arrests and searches of opposition activists and introduction of laws that impose heavy fines on protesters and rigid rules on civil society groups. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)
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Posted: 12/12/2012 6:18:33 AM EST
Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks during a state-of-the nation address in Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, Dec. 12, 2012. Russia’s President Vladimir Putin vowed Wednesday to strengthen the country’s economy and its military might and rejected what he described as foreign lecturing about democracy and attempts at foreign interference in the nation’s internal affairs. Putin delivered his first state-of-the nation address since winning a third term in March's election despite a wave of massive protests in Moscow. Putin has taken a tough course on dissent since his inauguration with arrests and searches of opposition activists and introduction of laws that impose heavy fines on protesters and rigid rules on civil society groups. (AP Photo/Misha Japaridze)
