According to the Other Russia, Oleg Deripaska has acknowledged having (involuntary) connections with the Russian mafia during the 1990s, during his five-hour meeting with Spanish law enforcement officials. The Guardian looks at this yearR...
TODAY: Miner protests broken up by OMON officers; senators declare incomes; blue bucket police to be punished; corruption investigation into Luzhkov’s deputy re-opened. Israel concerned by weapons to Syria; Medvedev in Ukraine, Eastern...
Given the serious political crisis unraveling in Thailand and the fact that Robert Amsterdam is currently on the ground in Bangkok, we are planning to publish quite a lot of related content on this space in the coming days until a new platform is ...
The following press release is being distributed to the media regarding Robert Amsterdam’s visit to Bangkok. Time for International Community to Act on Thai Political Crisis, says Thaksin Lawyer BANGKOK, May 12, 2010 – Robert Amsterdam...
It’s been a great disappointment to me how all the media attention has disappeared with regard to the case of the human rights activist Yevgeny Zhovtis in Kazakhstan, who was unlawfully jailed after having the bad luck of being involved in a...
(Following a recent speech I gave at Chatham House on Russian perspectives on international law, a junior colleague of mine, whom we shall call “C.M.”, punched up a nice biography of the lawyer Fedor Martens, detailing the life and wor...
Joseph Nye, the innovator of the term “soft power,” has published an op/ed casting some doubts on the uncomplicated rise of the Brazil, Russia, India, and China (BRIC) bloc. Several of these countries still face a number of econo...
During our last visit to Prague, we had the pleasure of meeting up for a chat with Brian Whitmore, senior correspondent at Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty and one of the authors of the excellent Russia blog, The Power Vertical. Brian is a ...
To provide the best experiences, we use technologies like cookies to store and/or access device information. Consenting to these technologies will allow us to process data such as browsing behavior or unique IDs on this site. Not consenting or withdrawing consent, may adversely affect certain features and functions.
Functional
Always active
The technical storage or access is strictly necessary for the legitimate purpose of enabling the use of a specific service explicitly requested by the subscriber or user, or for the sole purpose of carrying out the transmission of a communication over an electronic communications network.
Preferences
The technical storage or access is necessary for the legitimate purpose of storing preferences that are not requested by the subscriber or user.
Statistics
The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for statistical purposes.The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for anonymous statistical purposes. Without a subpoena, voluntary compliance on the part of your Internet Service Provider, or additional records from a third party, information stored or retrieved for this purpose alone cannot usually be used to identify you.
Marketing
The technical storage or access is required to create user profiles to send advertising, or to track the user on a website or across several websites for similar marketing purposes.
