Joshua Foust at Registan.net has a piece up about the swift show trial conviction of Yevgeny Zhovtis, which has decidedly changed his mind about the OSCE Chairmanship being given to Kazakhstan. While Zhovtis is only one guy, the pattern of harassi...
There’s more news about the jailing of Yevgeny Zhovtis in Kazakhstan, which Bob hit up last night on HuffPo. There’s a story that just hit the wire from Reuters, which quotes the U.S. Embassy’s statement: “In re...
Yesterday we ran a report on the first day of the trial against the human rights leader Yevgeny Zhovtis in Kazakhstan. Before Day 2 could draw to a close, they had already sentenced him to four years, and had thrown him into prison to begin ...
We’ve covered this Kyrgyzstan double-dipping story a couple of times here, but Alexander Golts latest piece over at RealClearWorld sums it up nicely – including the tale of the embarrassing trip made by Igor Sechin and Anatoly Serdyuko...
Russia is far from alone in the neighborhood in its staging of show trials and corralling of political prisoners, and in fact, what is happening to human rights advocate Yevgeny Zhovtis of Kazakhstan, shows an measurably deeper level of political ...
This piece over at RealClearWorld about Russia’s policy toward Iran is preaching the choir here at this blog: As long as Iran remains a pariah state, Moscow can use Iran’s isolation to sell them their outdated jets and secondhand produ...
Writing in the China Post, Frank Ching argues that Beijing’s hosting of the summer olympic games of 2008 did nothing to advance human rights. One would imagine that the same would go for Sochi. The two issues — human rights and C...
Personally, when I think of the World’s Most Dangerous Places, I think of Robert Young Pelton, whose approach to off-the-beaten-path travel saved my life more times than I care to count during the early reckless years of my youth. David Roth...
When the Russian state laid siege to Yukos and imprisoned Mikhail Khodorkovsky, many things were accomplished: state officials behind Rosneft and Gazprom illegally became overnight billionaires, energy resources were sharpened into an even g...
Nezavisimaya Gazeta has an editorial advising the Russian government to diversify its ties with the Iranian opposition, so relations don’t go down with the ship if Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s political troubles continue. From the Los A...
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