a blog for those hard to find news items, awkward subjects and unwanted conversations.
This week the U.S. Department of State released the annual Human Rights Report. The Russian chapter is a scary read, especially if you are a journalist – an advocate of free press.
In a 40,000+ word report – 47 separate reports of journalist intimidation, state-pressed agendas, suppression of the press, and downright murder suggest Russia is [...]
With the daily avalanche of doom and hideous gloom battering us from every angle – it’s very difficult (neigh, almost impossible!) to find any silver lining strong enough to tug on with reasonable focus and interest. So when you trip over the odd headline here and foreign-correspondent article there (in quiet corners of the [...]
Tensions between Russia and the U.S. are at their highest since the demise of the Cold War. Where to begin? Diplomatic saber rattling with the U.S., macabre though unproven murders of Kremlin critics, Russian alliances and military weapon sales to rogue nations and labeled ‘evil doers’, ratcheted threats to former soviet states seeking NATO membership, [...]
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