Writing in the Moscow Times today Yevgeny Bazhanov offers a succinct historical overview of the shifting alliances between Russia, China and the US. He concludes that, just as the attempted China-US alliance against Russia fizzled in the 1980s, so...
Below you will find a video introduction, press release, and link to the full document of our latest White Paper prepared in response to the tragically violent Bangkok killings of protesters occurring in in April and May of this year. Please see w...
Last week I was in Kenya, advocating on behalf of a client in a UN trial, when I had the chance to meet with a number of leading African human rights specialists. Among others, I met with the well-known human rights lawyer Evans Monari, Member of ...
Japan is starting to get really pissed about these Russian military exercises on Etorofu Island, among the disputed territories of the Kuril Islands. From The Japan Times: A Russian Foreign Ministry official told ITAR-TASS that Russia “...
A new report (download here) has arrived in our mailboxes from the Kazakhstan International Bureau for Human Rights and the Rule of Law, which takes a look at the country’s human rights record during the first half of the year in which they ...
In case you have accidentally landed here instead of Bob’s Thailand blog, below is the press release and link to the full text of the letter sent out today to PM Abhisit, CCed to Navi Pillay of the United Nations.
John Lough, an associate fellow of the Russia & Eurasia Programme at Chatham House in London, has a very insightful piece on Russia’s play in Kyrgyzstan in the Moscow Times: Rather than fighting over the long-term future of the Manas bas...
I still haven’t heard a completely satisfactory answer to this question, but Stephen Sestanovich at CFR is getting warmer. As the killing in Kyrgyzstan escalated, some American analysts feared that Moscow saw disorder there as a chance...
Dear readers … this is just a quick announcement to let you know that Bob’s blogging on Thailand will now be located over here, while this main page will go back to mainly Russia content.
Earlier this week, Thailand’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs has published a second statement in response to our work, and as with the first one, I am providing a link to the full text here in order to engender an open debate on these important...
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