All posts tagged Russia

Obama to the Poles: Have some Patriot missiles that don’t work to protect you from Russia

Opinia.US Truckee, CA, December 6, 2010 — The Guardian newspaper in the

Update: The White House announced that President Obama will meet with Polish President Bronislaw Komorowski in Washington on Wednesday, December 8. Opinia.US reported that President Komorowski’s

Democracy Digest from the National Endowment for Democracy (NED): It’s been called the twentieth century War and Peace, but Vasily Grossman’s Life and Fate has more to

Opinia.US Truckee, CA, November 29, 2010 -- Leaked secret State Department cables may help to resolve the mystery as to why President Obama chose September 17, 2009

FreeMediaOnline.org Truckee, CA, USA, November 28, 2010 -- Classified and secret U.S. State Department cables released by Wikileaks show  French government

Reporters Sans Frontières (RSF) - Reporters Without Borders today condemned as “repugnant” a defamation conviction handed down by a Moscow court to the independent weekly The

Reporters Sans Frontières (RSF) - Russian and Belgian police are currently searching in the Belgian city of Liège for a man suspecting of being the hitman

Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) -

Democracy Digest from the National Endowment for Democracy (NED): Unlike their Chinese or Iranian counterparts, Russia’s authoritarians have not established a Great Firewall or employed a cyber-army

Democracy Digest from the National Endowment for Democracy (NED): Just as business oligarchs are not usually the most eloquent tribunes for democracy, so corporate lawyers tend to

Democracy Digest from the National Endowment for Democracy (NED): Imagine if 35 percent of young Germans had never heard of the Holocaust… It wouldn’t speak well of

Democracy Digest from the National Endowment for Democracy (NED): The new authoritarians in Russia and China may have shed their ideological baggage, but they have evidently retained

Democracy Digest from the National Endowment for Democracy (NED): In Vladimir Putin’s Russia, “independent reporting and advocacy has become lethal,” writes Elena Milashina, (right) an investigative journalist

Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) - Dear Mayor Strelchenko: While leading a delegation to Moscow from the Committee to Protect Journalists in late September, I had the