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A network of student presidents from universities around the world, College-100 (or C-100), has done a sterling job of exposing corruption in Russia, producing the video below about the case of Sergei Magnitsky.
To get you up to speed, Mr Magnitsky was a Russian tax attorney ...
The recent release of 17 documents discovered at Osama bin Laden’s compound in Abbottabad should inspire a rethink of many Western notions about al-Qaeda. Bin Laden’s place in the political and theological jihadi spectrum, especially, needs more consideration. What is ...
Over the past four years, our system of capitalism has come in for merciless berating from politicians, opinion formers and most tellingly, the general public. Whether it is bankers’ bonuses, business practices, or concerns about rising levels of inequality, it ...
Lamenting the illiberal fruit of the Arab Spring has become a favorite pastime of the Western commentariat. A year and a half after the movement’s outbreak, pundits from across the political spectrum compete daily for valuable editorial real estate to ...
The Salvadoran jurist Reynaldo Galindo Pohl died this year at age 93. A former education minister and president of El Salvador’s National Constitutional Assembly, Pohl spent much of his career pressing for human rights, first as a member of the ...
Today, amid growing tensions with the Islamic Republic, Iranians are often deemed to possess little moral agency. When Iranian theocrats deny the Holocaust or demand a new one, we are told that such sentiments are a reaction to Western hostility, ...
The NTC believe that their “anti-glorification” laws are necessary to safeguard the 17 February Revolution, but by restricting freedom of speech they are undermining one of the fundamental principles for which that revolution was fought.
Over the past week a growing ...
Vladimir Putin’s presidential inauguration hasn’t gone to plan. While Putin may have once expected a relatively calm re-entry to the office he never really left, his reinstallation was instead heralded by crowds of between 20,000-100,000, carrying signs with slogans such as “Russia ...
Shin Dong-hyuk, one of the few known survivors of North Korea’s prison camps, travelled to London last week to share his experiences in Parliament at an event held by the Henry Jackson Society. Shin, born into Kaechon internment camp (Camp ...
INTRODUCTION
Russia’s power structure faces the most significant challenge since Vladimir Putin assumed office in 1999. The fraudulent Duma elections of 2011— which delivered the ruling United Russia Party a significantly reduced majority— sparked a wave of popular protests in Moscow ...Join the HJS mailing list and keep up to date.