Several years ago, the regime engaged Venezuela's state-owned telecommunications company to lay high-speed cable to Cuba, but the project is still unfinished, and getting online is maddeningly slow and expensive.
It is much more comfortable to fall back on familiar tropes that require little explanation than to explore the nuances of a different type of oppression, such as a brutal regime engaged in mass slaughter and starvation of its own populations, especially when this regime tries to sell itself as the best guarantee against extremism in Syria.
The U.N's "Geneva I" plan of March 2012 failed because, according to a U.N. report, the regime "engaged in a major coordinated effort to reclaim urban centres".
It was the Kiev regime engaged in a "punitive operation" in eastern Ukraine, he said, because residents there had opposed the toppling of former president Viktor Yanukovych after months of huge protests, which Putin called an "armed coup".
Ivan himself was a better stylist than Kurbskiy, and sent back lengthy, brutally witty replies that were distributed to a broad audience perhaps the earliest examples of a Russian regime engaging in ideological propaganda.
Mr. President, the Assad regime is engaged in a brutal crackdown on its people.
He rejected the voluminous testimony and documentary evidence that his regime has engaged in barbarous acts against its own citizens.
To appreciate why, look at events in Syria: An authoritarian regime is engaged in brutal repression and large-scale human rights violations.
Diem's family regime routinely engaged in corruption, ballot stuffing and arbitrary arrests of all opposition.
His regime has engaged in brutal censorship, including mass arrests and sudden newspaper closures.
