Uzbekistan Is Trading on Its Horrific Reputation

Earlier today Amsterdam & Peroff LLP issued a press release on behalf of their client Oxus Gold Plc, which is currently experiencing an unlawful expropriation attempt at the hands of the government of Uzbekistan.  Below is an extract of the Associated Press coverage of the story.  More news and information to come. Robert Amsterdam, who […]

Video: Justice for Thailand’s “Black Summer”

We were forwarded this video created by a YouTube user which takes a series of compelling images from the violent dispersal of protesters in April and May of 2010 in Bangkok, along with soundbites from Robert Amsterdam’s press conference in Tokyo announcing the application before the International Criminal Court.

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. While it is hoped that the elections will be free of […]

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 award to President Roza Otunbayeva, it would seem that I am not too late. Если […]

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 Kyrgyzstan it was by word of mouth. As for Khodorkovsky, we […]

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 brother. At this time, in my Moscow, a group of young […]

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 are presenting a petition to the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague requesting prosecutors to open […]

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.  But there’s something fishy about the article … you can’t argue that the Turkmens think a trans-Caspian route is […]

Robert Amsterdam Profile in the Toronto Star

Today the Toronto Star is running an extensive profile of Robert Amsterdam – we’re grateful for their interest, and hope you enjoy.  By Monday we’ll be back to our regularly scheduled programming. “I don’t think any regime likes him, particularly semi-authoritarian ones,” says Peter Solomon, a political scientist at the University of Toronto. (…)

Turkey’s Emergence as a Regional Leader

Judah Grunstein has a good piece in World Politics Review arguing that Turkey, rather than Iran, comes out as the biggest winner from the Iraq war debacle.  However it is the degree to which Ankara comes into conflict with Moscow over regional issues in the Black Sea that bears more careful study. Ankara’s opposition to […]