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Defending our rights is now even deadlier
Oped, Jodie Ginsberg, Published on 09/05/2025
» The harassment, detention, torture, and eventual murder in 2006 of Anna Politkovskaya, a Russian investigative journalist who exposed government corruption, the horrors of the Second Chechen War, and the increasingly autocratic regime of Russian President Vladimir Putin, is the subject of a new film, Words of War.
Where has 'Thailand' gone?
Postbag, Published on 16/02/2025
» Re: "Tourism at crossroads", (Editorial, Feb 14).
Protect democracy and journalists
Oped, Antonio Zappulla, Published on 13/06/2024
» 'Foreign agent", "undesirable", "extremist". For thousands of independent journalists trying to live and work in Russia, these words can be life-changing.
Seeking politics of solidarity under Putin's regime
News, Shura Gulyaeva, Published on 18/03/2024
» In 2013, when I was 13, one of the oldest comedy TV programmes in Russia released a sketch in which a group of musicians performed a version of Queen's I Want to Break Free satirising the country.
Kremlin steps up disruptive ops from Arctic to Africa
News, Peter Apps, Published on 24/02/2024
» A week after Russian prosecutors added her and other Baltic officials to a "wanted" list for supposedly encouraging the desecration of Soviet war graves, Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas announced her intelligence services had broken up a ring of Russian-sponsored disruptors within the Baltic states.
Remember the name
Oped, Postbag, Published on 20/02/2024
» Re: "Lessons to be learnt from Navalny's fight", (Opinion, Feb 19).
When geopolitics impacts markets
Oped, Mike Dolan, Published on 23/04/2021
» Fractious geopolitics doesn't always move world markets -- but the summer of 2021 may give us some glimpse about exactly where and how it does.
US faces test on Taiwan, Ukraine
News, Peter Apps, Published on 19/04/2021
» With warship moves, equipment sales and diplomatic rhetoric, the United States has rarely been more emphatic that it stands with its allies in Ukraine and Taiwan.
Alexei Navalny and Dr Seuss' Mulberry Street
Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 05/03/2021
» By now Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny will have reached Correctional Facility No.2 (IK-2), where he will be spending the next two-and-a-half years in one of the harshest penal colonies in the Russian prison system.
Beware the TV bookshelf backdrop
News, Roger Crutchley, Published on 14/02/2021
» Since the arrival of Covid we have been accustomed to watching television programmes with pundits, politicians and celebrities interviewed in their homes, invariably with bookcases being the backdrop of choice.