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Robert Amsterdam

Type: Person

Name: Robert Amsterdam

First Reported Mar 08 2010 - Updated Mar 08 2010 - 1 Documents

Dmitry Medvedev

Video: Robert Amsterdam on France24 Panel Debate

Click here to jump over to France24 to see a video clip of a panel discussion on Russia surrounding the summit between Nicolas Sarkozy and Dmitry Medvedev featuring Robert Amsterdam and others. ... [Published Mar 08 2010 by Robert Amsterdam]

Entities: Robert Amsterdam, Dmitry Medvedev, Nicolas Sarkozy

First Reported Feb 22 2010 - Updated Feb 23 2010 - 1 Documents

Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs

The Zimbabwe-United Nations Trial

Robert Amsterdam is currently in Nairobi, Kenya, where he has just finished Day 1 of an administrative trial regarding the alleged wrongful treatment of a United Nations employee in Zimbabwe who worked for the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian ... [Published Feb 22 2010 by Robert Amsterdam]

Entities: Robert Amsterdam, Zimbabwe, Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Aff..., Robert Mugabe

First Reported Feb 22 2010 - Updated Feb 22 2010 - 1 Documents

Foreign Policy Association

Russia: Keith Gessen's LRB Piece on Khodorkovsky

Robert Amsterdam's Blog and Foreign Policy Association's Russia Blog link to and comment on Keith Gessen's review of Richard Sakwa's The Quality of Freedom: Khodorkovsky, Putin and the Yukos Affair, which appeared in the London Review of Books. ... [Published Feb 22 2010 by Global Voices Online]

Entities: Keith Gessen, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Russia, Richard Sakwa, Foreign Policy Association

First Reported Feb 19 2010 - Updated Feb 19 2010 - 1 Documents

Mikhail Khodorkovsky

Rule of Law in Russia

The U.S. can no longer make distinctions between domestic and foreign policy, a lawyer said at a Cato Institute event focusing on the rule of law in Russia.When talking about the rule of law, we need to remember 'a great Russian who lit the light for ... [Published Feb 19 2010 by Accuracy in Media]

Entities: Robert Amsterdam, Russia, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Anna Politkovskaya, Foreign Policy

First Reported Dec 15 2009 - Updated Dec 16 2009 - 2 Documents

Hugo Chavez Frias

UN Experts Criticize Chávez for Judicial Crackdown

I know that we try to put all our Venezuela news over on the other blog these days unless it has something to do with Russia, this is still some pretty dramatic news from Robert Amsterdam's case down there, holding down the front pages of the UN News ... [Published Dec 16 2009 by Robert Amsterdam]

Entities: Hugo Chavez Frias, Eligio Cedeno, United Nations

First Reported Dec 03 2009 - Updated Dec 03 2009 - 1 Documents

Russia: Law Enforcement and Crime

Robert Amsterdam's reports on the pre-trial detention center death of lawyer Sergei Magnitsky last month - here and here ; also, a note on the murder of Ivan Khutorskoy, an anti-fascist activist . Oleg Kozlovsky - on a murder committed by drunk ... [Published Dec 03 2009 by Global Voices Online]

Entities: Russia, Crime, Oleg Kozlovsky, Robert Amsterdam, Homicide

First Reported Nov 19 2009 - Updated Nov 19 2009 - 1 Documents

Robert Amsterdam: The Murder of Russian Rule of Law

According to reports , late on Monday night the 37-year-old Russian lawyer Sergei Magnitsky suffered a fatal rupture of the abdominal membrane causing heart failure and death. He was being held in pre-trial detention in Moscow for almost ... [Published Nov 19 2009 by The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed]

Entities: Robert Amsterdam, Homicide, Russia, Stanislav Markelov

First Reported Nov 11 2009 - Updated Nov 11 2009 - 2 Documents

Obama's Human Rights Opportunity in Singapore

Reprinted from Robert Amsterdam's latest in the Huffington Post : The effusive praise President Barack Obama has for former Singaporean Prime Minister and now Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew is another gesture that has led many to wonder where ... [Published Nov 11 2009 by Robert Amsterdam]

Entities: Human Rights, Singapore, Barack Obama, Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation, Singapore Democratic Party (SG)

First Reported Nov 11 2009 - Updated Nov 11 2009 - 1 Documents

Canadian attacks political sytem

A CANADIAN lawyer with ties to opposition politician Chee Soon Juan has issued a 63-page 'white paper' attacking Singapore's political system and judiciary. The paper has attracted a 25-page response from the Singapore Government.The 63-page white paper ... [Published Nov 11 2009 by Straits Times]

Entities: Robert Amsterdam, Singapore Democratic Party (SG), Chee Soon Juan

First Reported Nov 02 2009 - Updated Nov 03 2009 - 1 Documents

Miliband must raise Khodorkovsky's case with Russia

During his visit to Moscow the UK foreign secretary must draw attention to human rights and the rule of law For those who believe that the re-emergence of realpolitik in the Brown cabinet through the personage of Lord Mandelson is a regrettable turn ... [Published Nov 02 2009 by Comment is free | guardian.co.uk]

Entities: David Miliband, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Human Rights, Russia

First Reported Nov 02 2009 - Updated Nov 02 2009 - 1 Documents

Russia: Maksharip Aushev's Murder

Robert Amsterdam's Blog - here , here , and here - and Window on Eurasia write about the murder of Ingush opposition activist Maksharip Aushev; Sean's Russia Blog writes about the murder of a businessman and United Russia deputy Grigory Nosikov ... [Published Nov 02 2009 by Global Voices Online]

Entities: Maksharip Aushev, Homicide, Russia

First Reported Oct 29 2009 - Updated Oct 30 2009 - 2 Documents

Lula's Red Carpet Welcome for Ahmadinejad

From Robert Amsterdam's latest in the Huffington Post : Why then, with so much going for him and his country, should he make such controversial choices in his friends? Lula's increasingly warm embrace of Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, ... [Published Oct 29 2009 by Robert Amsterdam]

Entities: Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, Brazil, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran

Quotes

The U S needs to have the courage "to define our policies and values and stick to them ... we have to decide if we care about saving ourselves and our constitution-we can wish no less on our fellow man" Amsterdam said

Rule of Law in Russia [Accuracy in Media - Feb 19 2010]

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Blogs

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Video: Robert Amsterdam on France24 Panel Debate [Robert Amsterdam - Mar 08 2010] Click here to jump over to France24 to see a video clip of a panel discussion on Russia surrounding the summit between Nicolas Sarkozy and Dmitry Medvedev featuring ...
The Zimbabwe-United Nations Trial [Robert Amsterdam - Feb 22 2010] Robert Amsterdam is currently in Nairobi, Kenya, where he has just finished Day 1 of an administrative trial regarding the alleged wrongful treatment of a United ...
Russia: Keith Gessen's LRB Piece on Khodorkovsky [Global Voices Online - Feb 22 2010] Robert Amsterdam's Blog and Foreign Policy Association's Russia Blog link to and comment on Keith Gessen's review of Richard Sakwa's The Quality of Freedom: Khodorkovsky, ...
Robert Amsterdam: Open Season on Lawyers in Russia [The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed - Feb 18 2010] Russia has become a pretty scary place for lawyers to work, and not for any lack of power lunches, major dealmaking, or luxury retailers. While we most ...
Exclusive Interview with Jamison Firestone: &qu... [Robert Amsterdam - Feb 18 2010] Over the years on this blog we have dedicated considerable coverage to what we perceive as a war against lawyers occurring in Russia, ranging from Boris Kuznetsov, ...