Asia

April 21, 2011

Report: Thailand’s Military Casts Shadow over Election

One year ago, the Royal Thai Government massacred ninety-one people to avoid an early election it feared it might lose. Finally, the general elections for which dozens of Red Shirts gave their lives are on track to take place in June or July 2011....
March 9, 2011

Grigory Pasko: Putin’s Peak

I wouldn’t be the first one to point out the absurdity of the Kyrgyz government’s decision to name a mountain peak after his holiness Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin, but given that the U.S. State Department just happened to pass along an...
March 9, 2011

Grigory Pasko: Putin’s Peak

I wouldn’t be the first one to point out the absurdity of the Kyrgyz government’s decision to name a mountain peak after his holiness Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin, but given that the U.S. State Department just happened to pass along an...
February 22, 2011

Robert Amsterdam Interview with Diplomaatia

Below is an excerpt of a wide-ranging interview with Robert Amsterdam by the Estonian publication Diplomaatia: How did you end up doing what you are doing? How do people all over the world find you? I would have to say that in Thailand and Kyrgyzs...
February 22, 2011

Robert Amsterdam Interview with Diplomaatia

Below is an excerpt of a wide-ranging interview with Robert Amsterdam by the Estonian publication Diplomaatia: How did you end up doing what you are doing? How do people all over the world find you? I would have to say that in Thailand and Kyrgyzs...
February 13, 2011

Grigory Pasko: Kyrgyzstan’s Fuel Supply Politics

A not-young Kyrgyz came up to me on Chui prospect in Bishkek and asked: “Brother, how do I get to the Alamedin market?” I didn’t know yet how to get to the market, but I did already know that in Bishkek – I’m a brothe...
February 13, 2011

Grigory Pasko: Kyrgyzstan’s Fuel Supply Politics

A not-young Kyrgyz came up to me on Chui prospect in Bishkek and asked: “Brother, how do I get to the Alamedin market?” I didn’t know yet how to get to the market, but I did already know that in Bishkek – I’m a brothe...
January 31, 2011

Press Release: International Justice for Thai Impunity

Red Shirts Appeal to ICC over Killings of Protesters by Thai Military Compiled evidence alleges crimes against humanity by Royal Thai Army BANGKOK-TOKYO, Jan. 31, 2011 – Today lawyers acting on behalf of the Red Shirt pro-democracy movement ...
January 31, 2011

Press Release: International Justice for Thai Impunity

Red Shirts Appeal to ICC over Killings of Protesters by Thai Military Compiled evidence alleges crimes against humanity by Royal Thai Army BANGKOK-TOKYO, Jan. 31, 2011 – Today lawyers acting on behalf of the Red Shirt pro-democracy movement ...
January 10, 2011

Barroso in Ashgabat

Interesting piece from EUobserver which is somewhat skeptical about Manuel Barroso’s upcoming charm visit to the capital of Turkmenistan, as the EU begins its effort to secure future natural gas exports potentially for the Nabucco pipeline.&...