True democratic reformers in all countries in the region, including Serbia, will be undermined if Belgrade is held to a different standard.

He had allied himself with a new generation of democratic reformers who were held in contempt by the junta and largely ignored by the West.

But that's just it: Yeltsin and the democratic reformers are realistically desperate.

"Gaddafi was an original thinker, a democratic reformer who was taking risks on behalf of change, "

Or will he turn out to be a democratic reformer, eager to get on with the changes Russia needs to become a just and prosperous society?

The hopes of democratic reformers across the Communist bloc depend on that delicate choice.

First I had to show my democratic reformers - mostly intellectuals who think me a brave simpleton - how dependent on me they are.

The conventional wisdom, shared by both democratic reformers and closet Stalinists, is to blame the collapse of central authority.

A CNN opinion article touted the race as in insult to democratic reformers.

Mr. Putin certainly speaks the lines of a democratic reformer.