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Did White House coordinate missile decision with Kremlin?
Opinia.US SAN FRANCISCO — Bloggers and Russian experts in the US have been trying to find out whether the Obama White House coordinated with the Kremlin the timing of the missile shield decision that deeply offended people in Poland and …
US Embassy Warsaw sees insensitive timing of Obama’s missile decision
Opinia.US SAN FRANCISCO -- Displaying unprecedented boldness for a US diplomatic mission, the US Embassy in Warsaw conceded on its official public website that Poles believe that
Georgia/Russia: A Year Later, Justice Still Needed
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View original post here: Georgia/Russia: A Year Later, Justice StillOlympic Congress: Monitor Host Countries on Rights
(New York) - The Copenhagen Olympic Congress should create a permanent mechanism to monitor human rights in host countries before, during and after Olympic Games, Human Rights
Elena Milashina, Russia
Human Rights Watch (HRW) - 2009 Alison Des Forges Award for Extraordinary Activism Human Rights Watch's Alison Des Forges Award celebrates the valor of individuals who
Sen. Voinovich criticizes Obama for public diplomacy disaster
Opinia.US SAN FRANCISCO -- In a speech on the Senate floor on Thursday, Senator George Voinovich (R-OH) said he was disappointed in the manner in which President
CPJ: Unsolved Killings of Journalists Lead to Self-Censorship in Russia
FreeMediaOnline.org & Free Media Online Blog, September 15, 2009, San Francisco -- The Committee to
Journalist faces jail for blogging on Russian explosion – Committee to Protect Journalists
New York, August 21, 2009--Prosecutors in Abakan, the capital of the Republic of Khakassia in southern Siberia, should drop their defamation charges against online editor Mikhail Afanasyev, the
The Kremlin’s Efforts to Rewrite Soviet History Work in Subtle Ways
The map from the secret appendix to the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact showing the new German-Soviet border. The map is signed by Joseph Stalin and German Foreign Minister Joachim von
More Trouble at Radio Liberty
The latest news about continuing turmoil at the US taxpayer-funded Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL), which is managed by the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) -- an independent
Latest murder of journalist in Russia underlines need for government action, says OSCE media freedom representative
VIENNA, 13 August 2009 - The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Miklos Haraszti, condemned today the murder of newspaper editor Abdulmalik Akhmedilov in Makhachkala, Dagestan on
Anonymous: They really should dissolve the BBG into one of the other organization...
Anonymous: We can write to our senators and to members of Congress. If they rece...
anonymous: If anything is clear, the BBG is now AT WAR WITH ITS OWN EMPLOYEES. ...
Anonymous2: What an appalling public diplomacy message from a U.S. federal agency ...
Anonymous: The laughter of Broadcasting Board of Governors members and other BBG ...