Yesterday around noon, when we heard reports that the political prisoner Eligio Cedeño, a client whom I represent, had finally been released on parole from his unlawful detention after almost three full years of imprisonment without conviction of ...
“A photographic portrait is a picture of someone who knows he’s being photographed, and what he does with this knowledge is as much a part of the photograph as what he’s wearing or how he looks. He’s implicated in what̵...
I have read Ivan Krastev’s curious article in the Washington Post today, and although there were some parts that weren’t quite so persuasive (Russia is not “a declining power”), he does get it right about how Washington fai...
As many of you know, I am quite fascinated by Latin America’s sudden “brotherhood” with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Here a Washington Post editorial really hits home the fact that the Lula Administration really m...
It may have all started with the bosom buddy relationship with Vladimir Putin, but Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez has expanded his friendship franchise to the world’s pariahs, from Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to Omar al-Bashir to Robert Mugabe, an...
Buried down at the bottom of this blog post attacking Obama’s Russia policy (mostly just picking on Joe Biden – it is the National Journal after all), are some interesting quotes from Igor Yurgens – a key advisor to Medvedev and ...
Earlier today we were emailed regarding a small demonstration to be held tomorrow morning in front of the Drake Hotel in Chicago, IL in support of Mikhail Khodorkovsky, coinciding with the Russian National Exhibition (a business conference looking...
Dmitri Trenin, Director of the Carnegie Moscow Center, dissects Russia’s foreign policy in the November/December issue of Foreign Affairs in an article entitled, “Russia Reborn.” Following is the passage I think resonates the mos...
Reprinted from Robert Amsterdam’s latest in the Huffington Post: The effusive praise President Barack Obama has for former Singaporean Prime Minister and now Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew is another gesture that has led many to wonder where t...
Translated from a Russian stock market report in yesterday’s Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung: Analysts from the investment bank Troika Dialog therefore consider the increasing strength of the American economy as a threat to above-average deve...
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