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...bigger picture painting itself across the nation. The Harvard Democrats have tackled their campaigning efforts with a vengeance, seeking to take back a dominance they have not tasted in years. The Harvard Republican Club, meanwhile, faced with internal conflict and a bad rep amongst their “Kremlin on the Charles” classmates, has not quite kept...
...recent fracas between immigrant rights protesters and border control vigilantes at Columbia, students and pundits alike have been pontificating about what student activists should or shouldn’t say and do. Yet much of the debate, from the O’Reilly Factor to the “Kremlin on the Charles,” has remained out of touch with the realities of campus activism. In fact, we are not rabblerousers with pipedream goals who like to make a scene. We are dissidents with purpose who want to remake our community, and in the process, stand in solidarity...
...second, ongoing Chechen War began under Vladimir Putin’s leadership, with a much stronger military. In a battleground too obscure and too dangerous for Western journalists, the military launched total war against the rebellious Chechens. In order to keep Putin’s popularity ratings high, the Kremlin tried very hard to make Chechnya a blind spot in their media...
...Russia, the Kremlin treats the media as a powerful weapon, to be purchased, coerced, or driven out. Partly spawned by the Chechen conflict, the government has been using proxies like its oil behemoth, Gazprom, to acquire media outlets for years. Examples of this include the NPV television network and Izvestia, a leading newspaper. Anna wrote for the Novaya Gazeta, which is one of the last bastions of dissent in Putin’s Russia, partly owned by Nobel Peace Prize winner Mikhail Gorbachev...
...Russian military in Chechnya; after being shot repeatedly by an unidentified gunman as she stepped off the elevator in her apartment building; in Moscow. Her murder, the 13th contract-style killing of a journalist in Russia since Vladimir Putin became President in 1999, sparked allegations that the Kremlin might have been involved in the crime. Putin denied the charge, calling the shooting "dreadful and unacceptable...