RUSSIA
April 2010
"It is almost impossible to believe this misery was once a beautiful German city known as Königsberg, where Kant thought, Herder wrote and Prussia began"
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April 2010
Russia has finally withdrawn its opposition to reforms that will streamline the European Court of Human Rights, long after everyone else had given up hope.
Not quite everyone, thou
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April 2010
In a "keynote address" to the Bar Conference yesterday, Sir Nicolas Bratza noted that delays are steadily increasing at the European Court of Human Rights. Bratza is now the third most senior of the Strasbourg judges and a vice-presiden
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April 2010
My column in this month's print edition of Standpoint is about Russians. Specifically, what has become of the revered 'Russian school' of musicianship since the fall of communism. My interviewees included three fabulous Russian music
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