Thursday, June 10, 2010

Value Meal or Last Meal: Jay Leno and the Death Penalty

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BROOKLYN, New York -- I never thought that this blog would get dragged into the insipid mire of America's Late Night Wars, but Jay Leno ...
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Wednesday, February 24, 2010

Russia Today Thinks British Bobbies Are Violent Stormtroopers

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BROOKLYN, New York -- A few people have recently pointed out to me that Kremlin-owned cable channel and propaganda mouthpiece Russia Today (...
Thursday, February 18, 2010

Medvedev Promises Police Reform, But Proposals Are Off the Mark

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BROOKLYN, New York -- Russian President Dmitry Medvedev is talking tough about police reform. On Thursday, Medvedev dismissed two high-ranki...
Thursday, January 21, 2010

The Sergei Magnitsky Murder: Siloviki Circle the Wagons

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BROOKLYN, New York -- It has been more than two months since the death of Sergei Magnitsky, a Russian lawyer who died in police custody afte...
Tuesday, January 12, 2010

More Hockey: Playing and Watching the Game Outdoors

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BROOKLYN, New York -- Hockey was meant to be played – and watched – outdoors. On New Year's Day, the National Hockey League pulled off a...
Wednesday, January 6, 2010

Hockey and Nationalism Should Be Kept Apart

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BROOKLYN, New York -- Tuesday was an historic day for American hockey. The United States defeated Canada in the final of the World Junior Ho...
Tuesday, December 15, 2009

The Man-Dog Case: The Life of a Stray in Russia

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BROOKLYN, New York -- I was a member of the debate team in college, competing in an extemporaneous style known as American Parliamentary deb...
Saturday, November 14, 2009

Whistleblowers in Russian Police Turn to Youtube, But Real Reform Still Unlikely

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BROOKLYN, New York -- Several days ago, Alexei Dymovsky, a police major in the Russian Black Sea port of Novorossiysk, released a series of...
Thursday, November 5, 2009

20 Years After the Fall: Progress for Some, Repression for Others

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BROOKLYN, New York -- As we approach the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, commemorations of those momentous events of 1989 a...
Monday, November 2, 2009

Canada Shores Up Arctic Claims With Olympic Flame

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BROOKLYN, New York -- The torch relay for the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver began on Friday. The Olympic flame started its Canadian jou...