"We are very cognizant that this does not mean there's been a straight-up spike in nonbelievers, " said Paul Fidalgo, communications director for the Center for Inquiry, a secular advocacy group.

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Bottom Line: As the EBRD is expected to play a central role in multilateral lending to Russia and other Soviet successor states and Eastern Europe, it is essential that Congress open its own inquiry and hearings into what the Center for Security Policy has long predicted would be yet another self-aggrandizing and bloated new international bureaucracy, in part funded by the U.S. taxpayer.

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Luis Manuel Botello of the International Center for Journalists, a nonprofit that trains journalists worldwide, said that Brazil has recently launched a phone-hacking inquiry into a journalist there who allegedly broadcast confidential police recordings.

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