Section: The Huffington Post (USA)
Journey behind a Name: Reviving Circassian Mythology
I have often been questioned about my name in my home country. Every year, on the first day of school, all students looked the same; grey pants, striped shirts and maroon ties. But when roll call kicked off, I slid deeper into my seat and waited for the barrage of inquisitiveness from my teachers about my uncommon name. “Are you from...
Involuntary Psychiatric Confinements Edging Up in the Former Soviet Union
Image: Hospital. Stock Photo. Pixabay.com YEREVAN, Armenia — Tens of thousands of people languished in psychiatric hospitals in the Soviet Union for years, not because they were insane but because they held views that contradicted the system. Happily, the use of forced psychiatric confinement to punish those who questioned the state plunged...
Heartbreaking New Discovery At Auschwitz As Jewelry Found Hidden Inside A Mug
The Nazis stole everything they could from victims of the Holocaust, but one family managed to outsmart them for more than 70 years. Staff at the Auschwitz Museum in Poland recently discovered that an old mug had a false bottom that hid a ring and a necklace.”It was very well hidden,” Hanna Kubik of the Memorial Collections said in a...
Walls and Bosnia 24 Years After?
Photo: New York Times, May 22, 1992 This is not just about Bosnia but rather the reactionary appeal of nationalism, populism and manifestations of walls, physical and psychological. It was 24 years ago today, May 22, 1992, when Bosnia & Herzegovina (BiH) became a member of the United Nations, and I was appointed its first Ambassador. Then was...
Relatives Of MH17 Victims Seek Compensation From Russia, Putin: Australian Media
MELBOURNE (Reuters) – An Australian law firm has filed a compensation claim against Russia and President Vladimir Putin in the European Court of Human Rights on behalf of families of victims of Malaysian Airlines Flight MH17, shot down in 2014, media reported.The jetliner crashed in Ukraine in pro-Russian rebel-held territory on July 17,...
U.S. and NATO should End New Cold War with Russia
U.S. and NATO should end New Cold War with Russia By Doug Bandow The NATO-Russia Council recently met in Brussels for the first time in nearly two years. “We are not afraid of dialogue,” announced alliance Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg. Alas, the talks didn’t get very far. Afterward he explained: “it was reconfirmed...
Reaction to NATO Missile Defense System Is Just One Sign of Russia’s Growing Paranoia
Image: Missiles. Stock Photo. Pixabay.com YEREVAN, Armenia — NATO’s deployment of a missile defense system in Romania this month brought the requisite Russian snarls and vows of countervailing action, such as reintroducing a movable, rail-based missile system that Moscow abolished in 2008. The Romanian system is the latest piece in a...
Canada Prime Minister Justin Trudeau Says ‘I Am Human After Fracas, Cites Pressure
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, under fire for getting involved in an unprecedented physical fracas in Parliament, said on Thursday that he was only human and in a high pressure job but promised there would be no repeat of his actions.Trudeau, impatient at what he saw as stalling tactics by the opposition ahead of a vote on Wednesday...
Donald Trump Says He Would Talk Directly To North Korean President Kim Jong Un
NEW YORK, May 17 (Reuters) – Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is willing to talk to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un to try to stop Pyongyang’s nuclear program, Trump told Reuters in an interview on Tuesday.In a wide-ranging discussion, Trump also said he disapproved of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s actions in...
Putin Is Being Pushed to Abandon His Conciliatory Approach to the West and Prepare for War
BEIRUT — Something significant happened in the last few days of April, but it seems the only person who noticed was Stephen Cohen, a professor emeritus of Russian studies at New York University and Princeton University. In a recorded interview, Cohen notes that a section of the Russian leadership is showing signs of restlessness, focused on...
