President Vladimir Putin has repeatedly promised that he intends to make press freedom a cornerstone of Russia's infant democracy.
And yet the dictatorship bequeathed to the infant democracy a looted treasury, a ballooning budget deficit and a rotten judiciary.
Ghana today celebrated its first nonviolent transfer of power, with President-elect John Kufuor describing the moment as "a great achievement for our infant democracy".
If February 7th wasn't a seizure of the state, it was at the very least a harsh blow to Maldives' infant democracy.(Picture credit: AFP).
Spain's 1978 constitution was written three years after the death of General Franco, amid concern about possible coups aimed at strangling Spain's infant democracy.
As the centennial approached, many Chinese people wondered out loud how things might be today if that infant democracy had been allowed to grow up.
In the post-revolution period, some bad actors, including those from the previous regime, seek to fan inter-religious violence in order to destabilize our infant democracy.
In this notoriously impoverished country, politics is said to run on "money and muscle," both of them the required tools of an infant democracy where politicians find it easier to express themselves with street violence than parliamentary debate.
Antonio Tejero Molina, a former lieutenant colonel who led a failed military coup against Spain's infant democracy in 1981, said it was time for King Juan Carlos to take action to prevent the current government from granting the region of Catalonia greater autonomy.
The Iraq group would have been on defensible ground had it suggested that the U.S., far from protecting an infant democracy from reactionary thugs, had instead been drawn into a round-robin struggle for political power, religious primacy and oil wealth.
