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...access to the area and allege that ethnic Georgian property has been targeted. Explains Dmitri Steshin, a reporter for Komsomolskaya Pravda, a Russian daily newspaper: "[The military doesn't] want you to see that all the Georgian homes have been burned down. It's as simple as that." Says Ludmilla Alexandrova, 50, a resident of Tskhinvali: "I don't think the Georgians will ever return." She will not miss them. Alexandrova has organized a water-distribution point for her neighborhood - an area, like the rest of the capital, without water, gas or electricity. The Georgians, she says, "caused...
...squeeze on the independent press and new laws that could be used to silence opposition voices. "There may no longer be shortages of groceries and long lines at every street corner, but Russia today is still a place where human rights and freedom are in short supply," says Ludmilla Alexeyeva, a doyenne of Russian human-rights activists, who co-founded the important Moscow Helsinki Group in 1976. "People who question the policies of our government are increasingly targeted. People who work for human rights are increasingly under attack. So, are we in Russia? Are we back in the U.S.S.R...
...longer elected but appointed. Most key national media are in the hands of state or state-controlled corporations, and Russian activists live in fear of the consequences when they openly criticize Putin. "There may no longer be shortages of groceries and long lines at every street corner," says Ludmilla Alexeyeva, the doyen of human-rights activists in Moscow, "but Russia today is still a place where human rights and freedom are in short supply...
...entirely student-organized event, raises money for the fight against childhood cancers. Proceeds go to the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute’s Jimmy Fund. This year’s program featured 1994 Olympic gold medalist Oksana S. Baiul, 1964 and 1968 Olympic gold medalists Ludmilla and Oleg Protopopov, as well as Harvard’s own skaters and rising stars in the sport. “Over the summer we come up with a dream list of skaters,” said event co-chair Elena I. Squarrell ’07. “We try to come...
Despite their age, the Protopopovs still train for up to seven hours a day. They skated in their 14th performance at Evening with Champions last weekend. “We come here to make a difference. We want all kids to be healthy,” said Ludmilla Protopopov...