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Chechen president Ramzan Kadyrov has won a defamation case against human rights group Memorial and its head, Oleg Orlov. But the trial has given the organisation a

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

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

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(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

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

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

"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

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While American and international media blames President Obama for choosing to announce his decision on the removal of

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FreeMediaOnline.org & Free Media Online Blog, September 15, 2009, San Francisco -- We have reported

FreeMediaOnline.org & Free Media Online Blog, September 15, 2009, San Francisco -- The Committee to

Censorship and self-censorship have become a permanent feature of the media scene in Russia under Mr. Putin's rule. Many Americans, however, were surprised last week that

Thirty-one years ago this week, on 7 September 1978, Georgi Markov, a Bulgarian émigré journalist who wrote for Radio Free Europe, BBC and Deutsche Welle, was