Why I felt I had to turn my back on WikiLeaks
I joined WikiLeaks last November as a staffer for a three-month stint. Culture shock came just a few days in, when Julian Assange gathered core staff and supporters at Ellingham Hall, a manor house owned by the Frontline Club founder and WikiLeaks supporter Vaughan Smith. Around the dining table the team sketched out a plan for the coming months, to release the leaked US diplomatic cables selectiv
Belarus Suspends Important Nuclear Agreement - NYTimes.com
MOSCOW — Belarus said Friday that it would suspend an agreement to give up its supply of highly enriched uranium, torpedoing, at least temporarily, what was considered a significant victory by the Obama administration in curtailing the spread of dangerous nuclear material. The move comes in response to the latest wave of economic sanctions imposed by Washington this month as punishment for a ruthl
Russia Uses Its Airwaves, and Then Its Power Lines, to Strike at Belarus President (Published 2011)
Russia Uses Its Airwaves, and Then Its Power Lines, to Strike at Belarus President MOSCOW — Russia’s irritation with its neighbor Belarus became more apparent on Wednesday when a state-controlled television station here broadcast a documentary damning the Belarussian president for mismanaging the economy, after which a Russian utility cut off about an eighth of that country’s electricity, claiming
ベラルーシ：元野党有力候補に懲役５年 反政府暴動を計画 - 毎日ｊｐ(毎日新聞)
【モスクワ大前仁】旧ソ連のベラルーシ政府が昨年１２月の大統領選時に野党候補者や支持者を逮捕した弾圧に絡んで、首都ミンスクの地区裁判所は１４日、野党有力候補だったアンドレイ・サニコフ元外務次官（５７）が反政府暴動を計画した罪があると認定し、懲役５年の判決を下した。 サニコフ氏ら野党候補や支持者が昨年１２月１９日の大統領選投票日に抗議集会を開いた際、一部が政府施設を破壊したことから、ベラルーシ政府は６００人以上を逮捕した。同氏以外にも大統領選に出馬した４人の野党候補も暴動を計画、関与した罪で起訴された。 米国務省は１４日の声明で「判決は政治的な動機に基づいている」と批判し、新たな制裁を検討すると警告。欧米諸国はルカシェンコ大統領ら政府要人の入国禁止措置などを発動した。
Who will confront the hatred in Hungary? | Nick Cohen
The European Union seems happy to ignore the repression that is happening under Viktor Orbán All sides agreed that there should be no fuss when Hungary's Viktor Orbán took over the presidency of the European Union yesterday. The EU's technocrats would allow Orbán to play the big guy on the international stage, as long as he let Brussels run Europe behind the scenes. Brussels assured Orbán's rightw
Belarus presidential candidates charged over election protests
The prosecutions, set in motion yesterday, are likely to intensify international criticism of Lukashenko, whose security forces launched a bloody crackdown on the demonstrations in central Minsk on 19 December. The accused candidates include poet Vladimir Neklyayev, 64, and former deputy foreign minister, Andrei Sannikov, 56, who were both beaten by riot police during the protests. Sannikov's sist
Brutality in Belarus | Timothy Snyder
Viktor Drachev/AFP/Getty Images Riot policemen standing guard around a government building during an opposition rally in Independence Square, Minsk, December 20, 2010 Independence Square in Minsk, Belarus’s sad capital, is one of the most terrifying public spaces in Europe. It is nothing but concrete, steel, glass and fearsome horizons—no benches, shelter, or anything for people who might wish to
The Devils’ Playground (Published 2010)
Homeless peasants near Kiev in 1934, during the famine engineered by Stalin.Credit...Hulton Archive/Getty Images For most Americans, who remember World War II as beginning in 1941, it is necessary to recall that Europe had succumbed to an infatuation with violence long before the United States entered the conflict. Timothy Snyder, a professor of history at Yale, compels us to look squarely at the
In Darkest Belarus | Timothy Snyder
In the summertime, in the Belarusian capital of Minsk, young couples rent boats. They float, seemingly aimlessly, with the current of the Svisloch River, until they find themselves under a bridge. Then they row against the current for as long as they can, hoping to find shelter from the sun and from prying eyes. The premise of Belarusian writer Victor Martinovich’s Russian-language novel Paranoia
Russia's empty empire
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