Vladimir Putin chaired a meeting of the Presidential Council for Civil Society and Human Rights at the Kremlin on October 14, 2014. There he condemned what he called the double standard in the assessment of crimes against the civilian population of southeastern Ukraine. Excerpts from transcript of meeting of the Presidential Council for Civil Society […]
Putin accuses Ukrainian military of war crimes against civilians
On September 1, 2014 President Vladimir Putin answered a reporter’s questioned during a visit to North-Eastern Federal University regarding the situation in the Ukraine. What he said was very interesting: “I will answer your question. The root of the tragedy currently unfolding, as I see it, is that the current government in Kiev does not want […]
“Colleagues, the fight against terrorism and extremism continues to be a key area of the Federal Security Service’s work”, said Putin
I received the following email from a source inside the Kremlin detailing a recent address by President Putin to members of the FSB. The FSB (ФСБ) is a state security organization in Russia. It is the organization that came after the KGB, relating to internal affairs inside the country. It is usually simply called the […]
Civilian Contractor Toll in Iraq and Afghanistan Ignored by Defense Dept.
An Afghan policeman walks past a vehicle that had carried U.S. civilian contractors, after it was targeted by a suicide bomber in the Logar province. (Farzana Wahidy/AFP/Getty Images/January 2007 file photo) As the war in Afghanistan entered its ninth year, the Labor Department recently released new figures [1] for the number of civilian contract workers […]
Breaking the Wall of Silence: Civilian Oversight of Police in Oakland
[This investigation has an accompanying radio story produced by Andrew and published at Making Contact. You can listen to it here. You can also check Andrew’s earlier reporting on this topic in partnership with KALW and the East Bay Express] It’s midnight. A vehicle driven by a black male is pulled over by a […]
Arab leader exposed torturing civilian on tape
According to a US state department official, a member of the royal family in Abu Dhabi has been arrested after he was exposed on video performing bizarre acts of torture on an Afghan grain dealer. The official has confirmed that the government of the United Arab Emirates have emphasized a house arrest on Sheikh Issa […]
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