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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 …

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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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Olympic 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

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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

Walesa on Obama’s Missile Diplomacy

"It wasn't that the shield was that important, but it's about the way, the way of treating us."

--Lech Wałęsa, the former Polish president and Solidarity leader, regarding

American Diplomacy Failed Obama in Poland

Dear Poland, Happy Soviet Invasion Day, Love Uncle Sam
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While American and international media blames President Obama for choosing to announce his decision on the removal of

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

Secretary Clinton Silent on Russia’s Campaign to Defend The Hitler-Stalin Pact

 

When Secretary Clinton issued a statement on the 20th anniversary of the protests that led to freeing the Baltic states from Soviet domination, she failed to

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

Voice of America Report Shows Confusion and Divisions Over Obama’s Policy Toward Russia

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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

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