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...coming," Andrei Yegorshev, host of Obozrevatel, NTV's weekly media-review program, told TIME. "He's long been nasty to Putin personally, setting all of us up." Parfyonov wasn't the only journalist to feel the heat. Federal Protection Service (FSO) officers assaulted two newspaper journalists covering a Moscow protest earlier that day, claiming they had failed to show their press credentials. Why the heavy hand? "The regime is getting even with everyone they haven't got even with yet," argues Pavel Gutiontov, secretary of the Russian Union of Journalists. "With the elections left behind, the time to observe...
...crimes tribunal has convened in the country where the war took place. Some 50,000 people died during Sierra Leone's conflict. City Under Siege PAKISTAN A general strike brought Karachi to a standstill. It was called by the Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal, a six-party religious alliance, to protest sectarian violence. Days earlier, a suicide bombing at a Shi'ite mosque in the city killed 23, shortly after the assassination of prominent Sunni cleric Mufti Nizamuddin Shamzai. Less Than Total Recall VENEZUELA President Hugo Chávez declared himself ready to face a recall vote after the National Electoral...
Boston-based music-video producer Steve Garfield, 46, is no ordinary blogger. Instead of simply posting his thoughts online in a chatty weblog like millions of others around the world, he links a Canon GL2 digital video camera to his laptop and uploads short clips of protest rallies, traffic short-cuts and even news events onto his personal Internet site...
...that day from the middle of this new war, to see the Atlantic alliance under historic strain, see the U.S. feared and reviled in countries whose freedom was redeemed at such high cost, to hear embattled American soldiers wonder if they will return home to a parade or a protest, while politicians argue over whether we went in with a plan or just a prayer, is to envy that great generation its gifts: unity, certainty and the chance to inspire all who followed...
...hall, who is bleary-eyed from working two jobs to support his family. It also means that I have something in common with the Iranian student, also exhausted from preparing for exams, but with more on her mind than tests because she is as involved in a youth democracy protest movement as I am involved in the Institute of Politics. Politically, it means that we take those to task who cause suffering, whether they are treating their employees unfairly or suppressing protest in the streets. The latter is a principle that should motivate our dealings with states as varied...