Section: The Huffington Post (USA)
Former Soviet Union Stepping Up Social-Media-Post Arrests
Image: Prison. Stock Photo. Pixabay.com A surge in the use of social media to energize activists unhappy with government policy has alarmed authorities in the former Soviet Union the past few years. Now authorities have turned this opposition tool on its head by arresting those who make provocative social media posts. Those facing prison on the...
The Sino-Western Relations In A World of Change : Toward a Mutually Transformative Co-existence
The Chinese renaissance is one of the world’s most significant factors of change. Will the reemergence of an ancient non-Western civilization be a disruptive force, or, at the opposite of a scenario which could evolve into confrontation, can the Middle Country and the West design in a genuinely cooperative relationship a new international...
How Savchenko Adapts to Politics Will Determine Whether She Will Be the Leader Ukraine Wants
Image: Nadia Savchenko (Author: Inter Ukrainian TV Channel Youtube Stream) When Nadia Savchenko was a girl, her favorite pastime was playing war with the boys in her Kiev neighborhood. She was so single-minded about the military that it didn’t surprise those who knew her when she chose it as a career. She became a household name in Ukraine...
Why You Should Care About Global Free Press
On May 25th, 2016, the world got a little bit safer. That’s because at approximately 2:00 p.m. local time, the Azerbaijan Supreme Court in Baku finally gave in to the demands of human rights activists and press freedom advocates around the world and released investigative journalist and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty contributor Khadija...
Euro 2016 Soccer Championship Attack Plot Foiled, Ukraine Says
KIEV (Reuters) – Ukraine’s state security service said on Monday a French citizen detained in late May on the border with Poland had been planning attacks in France to coincide with the Euro 2016 soccer championship it is hosting.The Ukrainian border guard service reported on Saturday that the unnamed 25-year-old had been arrested...
On Cluster Munitions, a Tentative Step Toward Sanity
You can always tell a policy development is significant when it’s released late Friday afternoon – and before a holiday weekend to boot. The decision by the United States to “hold” further transfers of CBU-105 cluster munitions to Saudi Arabia is a perfect example. In this case it was even more obscure than usual since the...
Agricultural Corruption in the Former Soviet Union: Unsexy But Lucrative
Image: Vegetables. Stock Photo. Pixabay.com Like savvy business tycoons, leaders in the former Soviet Union who use their positions to grab much of their countries’ economic wealth know the importance of diversification. That’s why the portfolio of the typical dictator in the region includes a number of industries. Energy, banking,...
Silenced on Her Husband’s Disappearance
“Come in,” the stylish middle-aged woman says as she leads me into her bright spacious kitchen. Her husband disappeared without a trace in March last year when he was driving from Donetsk, the capital of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic (DNR) in war-torn eastern Ukraine. His elderly mother was feeling unwell, and he...
Israel Not All Doom and Gloom
Israel seems to be undergoing a protracted period of gloom and doom. The quarreling about its future leaders and possible downfall of Netanyahu make Israel look weak and incompetent. The passing of the Iran deal and dominance of its hardliners means that within five to 10 years Iran will threaten little Israel (8,000 square miles) with nuclear...
Boyfriend Of LA Woman Whose ‘Blood Was Drained’ Is Charged With Murder
An aspiring screenwriter in California who authored a graphic novel about a condemned serial killer has been accused of borrowing grisly techniques from his own story to murder his estranged girlfriend, authorities said Tuesday.Blake Leibel, a 35-year-old native of Canada who was living in West Hollywood, has been charged with one count each of...
