Rice- Russia needs to show commitment to 'basics of democracy'

Sunday, February 6, 2005

ANKARA, Turkey -- Russia needs to show a commitment to a free press and other "basics of democracy," and cooperate with former Soviet republics such as Georgia and Ukraine where democracy is taking hold, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Saturday.

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