Re The Torture “Compromise” Via TPM, here’s a quote which echoes a thought I had just the other night: What does it get you, and where can you find an example of the judicial consequences of such a policy? The Show Trials of Stalin’s 1930s Soviet Russia. Witness Vladimir Bukovsky (a former Soviet dissident and [...]
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Re The Torture “Compromise”
Posted in Posts, tagged Politics, Russia, torture on September 22, 2006 | Comments Off
Vlad the Impaler
Posted in Posts, tagged Putin, Russia on September 16, 2004 | Comments Off
Vlad the Impaler. Well, the up side of voting from Party (yes, with a capital P) lists, is that the Russian populace is intimately familiar with them. And by the way, Dick Cheney must be stopped. The man is just ridiculous. The Chechen War is Not About al-Qaeda, God Dammit. They are not (generally) jihadists. [...]
Putin Moves to Centralize Authority (washingtonpost.com) This is what I majored in, and as people who know me will tell you, I have lamented the end of the cold war for years! (I know, I know.) But my main area of interest, historically speaking, was “Russia As Empire” and well, that was over well before [...]
But you JUST SAID IT!
Posted in Posts, tagged Putin, Rumsfeld, Russia on September 11, 2004 | Comments Off
But you JUST SAID IT! The New York Times > AP > International > Putin Agrees to Inquiry Into Russian School Siege: “U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said Friday that it was too soon to say whether al-Qaida played any role in the school attack, but he said there was an “absolutely” a connection between [...]
Vlad on Beslan
Posted in Posts, tagged Putin, Russia on September 4, 2004 | Comments Off
Putin Criticizes Law Enforcement After School Siege (washingtonpost.com): “Speaking slowly, wearing a dark suit and standing next to the Russian flag” I don’t mean to make light of the situation, but this is just some TERRIBLE writing! What leaps to mind reading this bit is, “Duh”. Can’t think of many folks who wouldn’t do just [...]
Hugely Important Story
Posted in Posts, tagged Russia on September 4, 2004 | Comments Off
Scary and sad, amazing and harrowing, the school hostage debacle in Beslan, Russia. Earlier tonight ABCNews led with a quite powerful story about it, and I just saw another very good report on CNN’s NewsNight filed by a shaky-voiced ITN reporter from the UK. The pictures were so powerful — firemen trying to put out [...]
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