Andras Molnar examines how a small Central Asian country can command such significant power, and maintain a corrupt, autocratic regime. Few journalists paid any attention to a presidential election in Central Asia in November 2013. Everyone knew the outcome of Tajikistan’s poll – it has been the same since 1992. That was the year when … Continue reading
The news to 13 October 2013 Race riots broke out last night in Moscow, following rumours that an ethnic Russian has been killed by a Central Asian immigrant. More than a thousand people were reportedly detained by the authorities following the violence. Presidential hopeful and oppositionist, Alexei Navalny used the occasion to blame Vladimir Putin … Continue reading
The European Human Rights Advocacy Centre (EHRAC) is celebrating its tenth anniversary of taking cases to the European Court of Human Rights. To celebrate, it held a panel discussion at Pushkin House on a new law in Russia that requires NGOs to register as ‘foreign agents’ if they receive funding from outside of the country. … Continue reading
On Friday 4 October 2013, RAW in War hosted the seventh annual Anna Politkovskaya Award. Josh Black reports on a moving ceremony. Anna Politkovskaya was assassinated outside of her Moscow apartment on 7 October 2006. The journalist who did most to uncover the horrors of the Second Chechen War, she was a hero to many … Continue reading
27 February: Slovenia’s government, mired in allegations of corruption, lost a no confidence vote. Prime Minister Janez Jensa resigned, to be replaced by Alenka Bratusek. Anxieties were raised in other European capitals that the process would delay the ratification of Croatia’s EU accession, which is scheduled to take place on 1 July 2013. Source: Economist … Continue reading
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