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Showing posts with label Russia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Russia. Show all posts
Tuesday, September 3, 2024

Contemporary sculpturist comments on Ukraine war

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Lakenen considers the war in Ukraine in this 2022 sculpture. A couple of weeks ago, I visited artist Tom Lakenen's Lakenenland , a sculp...
Monday, February 19, 2024

Kyiv law school strives for normalcy

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The dean of a Kyiv, Ukraine, law school spoke to American Bar Association (ABA) lawyers Thursday via Zoom about teaching law in a war zone. ...
Tuesday, August 29, 2023

Russians travel in Asia despite, or because of, war

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An Aeroflot plane awaits departure in Almaty, Kazakhstan, earlier this month. EU and U.S. sanctions banned the airline in 2022. RJ Peltz-Ste...
Tuesday, April 25, 2023

Polisci papers track Ukraine war to Arctic, UN, internet

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The war in Ukraine occasioned several papers at last weekend's annual meeting of the New England Political Science Association (NEPSA)...
Saturday, March 25, 2023

Weapon of Putin's war, anti-gay law jars NHL in US

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The NHL Chicago Blackhawks Sunday will host an annual Pride Night , but the team will not be wearing warm-up pride jerseys as intended, fo...
Monday, February 27, 2023

Program to examine Genocide Convention, Ukraine

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The Jagiellonian Law Society has announced a follow-up seminar, on March 14, 2023, on the subject of Polish-Jewish attorney Rafał Lemkin , ...
Wednesday, February 1, 2023

EU leverages trade for sustainable development

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Attorney Cyprian Liske presents at the University of Bologna . Used with permission. "Sustainability" is the word of our times, an...
Thursday, January 26, 2023

Ukraine Bar Association soldiers on

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Lawyers have never stopped work in Ukraine, and the bar has been a catalyst in the development of democracy there, I learned today at a pres...
Monday, November 14, 2022

In shadow of Ukraine war, webinar tells story of UN Genocide Convention, Polish-Jewish jurist Lemkin

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The Jagiellonian Law Society and its President Elizabeth Zechenter , a visiting scholar at Emory, have put together another superb program...
Friday, November 4, 2022

As Jacoby talk commemorates Kristallnacht, Ukraine recurs in historical record of flights from oppression

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An upcoming talk on Kristallnacht, a recent experience in the Paraguayan Chaco, and the ongoing war in Ukraine have me thinking lately about...
Wednesday, August 24, 2022

Invasion of Ukraine marks six months; Russian propaganda flows despite court OK of EU media ban

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#IStandWithUkraine On July 27, the European Union (EU) General Court upheld a continental broadcast ban on Russia Today (RT). The EU Council...
Wednesday, July 6, 2022

Court denies Exxon anti-SLAPP relief in Mass. climate claims; European court bemoans Russian SLAPP

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AG Maura Healey The Massachusetts anti-SLAPP statute does not work in defense of Attorney General enforcement actions, the Supreme Judicial ...
Monday, May 23, 2022

Putin's war strains ties to Belgrade

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In Belgrade, Serbia, on Sunday, I was surprised to see a couple of pro-Russian T-shirts for sale on the main shopping strip. One had an imag...
Thursday, April 28, 2022

'Now NATO might join Ukraine,' experts opine

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In Washington, D.C., the International Law Section of the American Bar Association receives a message from Ukraine. Attorney Michael Burke i...