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Russian pro-democracy opposition leader, human rights activist and chess grandmaster, Garry Kasparov is joined by Canada’s Minister of Foreign Affairs and Hon. Bob Rae…
Keynote addressed delivered by Garry Kasparov on September 12, 2019, in Toronto at the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact 80th Anniversary (“The Black Ribbon Day Conference”) at…
Over the past months, newspapers around the world have been filled with headlines that have negatively reflected a growing stream of problematic statements and…
For roughly as long as there have been democratic elections, there has been the threat and practice of foreign interference. Certainly, new developments have…
When the Chernobyl Prayer (also known as Voices from Chernobyl) by Svetlana Alexievich was published in 1997 it didn’t draw a lot of attention….
International attention to Belarus has recently acquired a peculiar angle. The reason for concern this time, is the fate of its dictator Alexander Lukashenka,…
In August 1997, a book written by the former KGB Colonel Oleg Gordievsky and journalist Inna Rogatchi titled “A Blind Mirror” (Sokea peili) was…
Recently Belarus started to draw attention again, sort of. This time, as a new potential victim of Russian aggression. Suddenly the international media has…
An extraordinary article was recently published in the Swedish newspaper Svenska Dagbladet, “”We are behind Kragh – take the Russian threat seriously”. It was…