For years I have enjoyed Mark Helprin’s novels – “Winter’s Tale” is specifically quite good. What many may not have known is that Helprin is a pretty prolific and uncompromising political opinion writer – ...
Yevgeny Zhovtis – the political prisoner of Kazakhstan Grigory Pasko, journalist During the time of my brief sojourn in Almaty, I met with many people – journalists, jurists, human rights advocates – and asked of them: what do th...
CNN Money is running an interesting feature by David Goldman entitled “10 countries, 10 solutions” which details the particularities of the global economic crisis facing 10 key countries. In typical old-media fashion, the layout makes ...
Robert Amsterdam has an opinion article published in The Moscow Times today: The recent visits to Moscow and Tehran by Hugo Chavez raise a number of concerns about the deepening relations between Russia, Iran and Venezuela. The motivation behind t...
I’ve finally gotten around to looking more closely at the World Economic Forum’s annual Global Competitiveness Report, released last week. The report ranks 133 countries on the basis of 12 measures of an economy’s competitiveness...
Fresh off a deal with Venezuela, Russia’s weapons maker appears to have its next willing customer in Saudi Arabia. First reported in English language press on August 29 (Interfax via Bloomberg), we now have significantly more detail on the s...
At the end of August, I telephoned the well-known Kazakh human rights advocate Yevgeny Zhovtis and asked how things were going on “the front” with the criminal case that had been opened in relation to him. Yevgeny replied that in conne...
Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez is known for his erratic behavior, but his latest move to extend official recognition to Georgia’s separatist regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia during his visit to Moscow is a bit of a head-scratcher.&nbs...
Bob has written a few posts here and there about the Kazakhstani human rights activist Yevgeny Zhovtis, who was recently imprisoned following a rapid show trial. The ordeal is catching the attention of some serious regional players, many of ...
In Robert Amsterdam’s latest article on Huffington Post, he argues that we should stop asking for fair trials in political cases if it is clear that they are impossible in a given country. So it is against this backdrop that we are expecting...
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