Christopher Walker of Freedom House has a very powerfully argued opinion article just published by the Wall Street Journal. No holds barred, openly strident, and given the violence against journalists this summer, totally appropriate. After ...
So many people use conflict and its victims as political instruments, with little thought given to how these decisions, words, and rhetoric powerful impact the personal lives and families of thousands. This has certainly been true in the Rus...
Here is the beginning of Robert Amsterdam’s latest contribution to Huffington Post: It really is impressive the level of tolerance we’ve built up when it comes to Russia’s confrontational antics. Take for example the move in earl...
TODAY: Putin promises to fortify Abkhazia with new base; Ukraine still smarting from Medvedev blow. EU urges Russian leadership to work on safety of human rights advocates. Lawyers in Russia beware – it is not just their clients ...
How the Kremlin Fights Corruption Grigory Pasko, journalist Here’s a story of a person I have recently come into contact with, which speaks volumes about how the Russian authorities deal with their own worst problem: corruption. Если В...
Back in June the respected health journal The Lancet published a scary report on alcoholism in Russia, noting that booze kills more people than war, making it the country’s biggest public threat. Now that we are well into August, the l...
Radoslaw Sikorski writes in Europe’s World on the Eastern Partnership initiative: The EaP also has an important political aspect: it shows partner countries attractive development prospects and offers them the opportunity to make the strateg...
TODAY: Shock reverberates around Chechyna NGO worker murder; Kadryov reacts with attack on Estemirova. NATO-Russia relations warming up; new kind of space race? Medvedev pulls no punches on Ukraine leadership. ‘Merchant of Death’...
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...
Celestine Bohlen has an op/ed in the New York Times on the latest murders in Chechnya: Now, the bodies of Zarema Sadulayeva and her husband, Alik Djabrailov, who worked with an organization that helped young people in Chechnya, have been discovere...
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