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Showing posts with label Russia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Russia. Show all posts
Tuesday, March 4, 2025

Digital rights defenders gather in Taipei to tackle mass surveillance, online propaganda, authoritarianism

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Culled from my notes, here are some of the most interesting things I heard last week in Taipei at RightsCon , the world's leading summit...
Tuesday, February 18, 2025

Civil conflict in Mali devastates innocents, while indifference, deference to Russia undermine U.S. policy

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U.N. peacekeepers, here a Togolese soldier near Mopti in 2018, provided enough security for local markets to function. MINUSMA (UN Mission i...
Thursday, December 19, 2024

Free Syria regime stands at crossroads

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A lone demonstrator outside my local city hall today, in Barrington, Rhode Island, is getting plenty of horn honks for his sign, "Celeb...
Wednesday, December 4, 2024

Demonstrators in Poland support Ukrainian POWs

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The war in Ukraine drags on, but central European resolve against Putin remains firm. Last week in Kraków, Poland, the main square, Rynek Gł...
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...