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		<title>William Browder on Human Rights in Russia</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Nov 2011 09:06:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Iivi Anna Masso</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[William Browder: “It’ll have an enormous impact on the human rights situation in Russia, if there are real consequences to the people who violate human rights.” William Browder is the co-founder and CEO of the investment fund Hermitage Capital Management currently &#8230; <a href="http://iiviannamasso.wordpress.com/2011/11/10/william-browder-on-human-rights-in-russia/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=iiviannamasso.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8119595&amp;post=314&amp;subd=iiviannamasso&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Robert Amsterdam: “The Rule of Law Is Universal”</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Nov 2011 08:44:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Iivi Anna Masso</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Robert Amsterdam is an international lawyer from Canada who is known for defending victims of political repression all over the world. He was among the leaders of the defence of Mikhail Khodorkovsky and he is now engaged in the defence of &#8230; <a href="http://iiviannamasso.wordpress.com/2011/11/10/robert-amsterdam-%e2%80%9cthe-rule-of-law-is-universal%e2%80%9d/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=iiviannamasso.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8119595&amp;post=303&amp;subd=iiviannamasso&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Burma – Protected from the World</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Nov 2011 08:27:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Iivi Anna Masso</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Alexander Horstmann]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Aug San Suu Kyi]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Interview with Alexander Horstmann and Karin Dean, by Iivi Anna Masso. Published in Diplomaatia 87/88, December 2010 (also in Estonian). Burma rarely makes international headlines. Everybody knows Aung San Suu Kyi and the fact that she has been under house &#8230; <a href="http://iiviannamasso.wordpress.com/2011/11/10/burma-%e2%80%93-protected-from-the-world/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=iiviannamasso.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8119595&amp;post=288&amp;subd=iiviannamasso&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>History Haunting Politics</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Aug 2010 19:41:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Iivi Anna Masso</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Panel introduction at the conference History, Memory and Politics in Eastern and Central Europe, Toronto 2010/08/23, Toronto 2010/08/23 <a href="http://iiviannamasso.wordpress.com/2010/08/23/history-haunting-politics/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=iiviannamasso.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8119595&amp;post=253&amp;subd=iiviannamasso&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Finnish Vs. Estonian foreign policy</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Apr 2010 14:45:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Iivi Anna Masso</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Should the Finnish Experience Serve as a Model for Estonia? Published in the Estonian foreign policy magazine Diplomaatia November 2009 in Estonian and English (here, I&#8217;ve made some changes to the English translation that is not my own) Like other &#8230; <a href="http://iiviannamasso.wordpress.com/2010/04/08/foreign-policy-finland-vs-estonia/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=iiviannamasso.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8119595&amp;post=237&amp;subd=iiviannamasso&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Lyudmila Alexeyeva: democracy must have a chance in Russia</title>
		<link>http://iiviannamasso.wordpress.com/2010/03/31/lyudmila-alexeyeva-democracy-must-have-a-chance-in-russia/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Mar 2010 09:18:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Iivi Anna Masso</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA["Our society is much more clever and honest than our government." <a href="http://iiviannamasso.wordpress.com/2010/03/31/lyudmila-alexeyeva-democracy-must-have-a-chance-in-russia/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=iiviannamasso.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8119595&amp;post=224&amp;subd=iiviannamasso&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hero(s) of our time</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Mar 2010 09:30:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Iivi Anna Masso</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A version of this was published in Estonian in Postimees. When philosopher Hannah Arendt talked about heroes, she meant not so much warriors or statesmen as brave ordinary people who resisted the Eichmannian temptation to “do their duty” as the &#8230; <a href="http://iiviannamasso.wordpress.com/2010/03/30/heros-of-our-time/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=iiviannamasso.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8119595&amp;post=221&amp;subd=iiviannamasso&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Walls of Silence</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 17:34:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Iivi Anna Masso</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A talk at the seminar TransEuropaExpress &#8211; I Nostri Muri/Our Walls, in Rome, Casa della Letteratura Oct. 28-31, 2009 20 years ago the Berlin wall fell, which meant the end of half a century of non-freedom of the Eastern half of &#8230; <a href="http://iiviannamasso.wordpress.com/2009/10/26/the-walls-of-silence/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=iiviannamasso.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8119595&amp;post=188&amp;subd=iiviannamasso&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Left, the Right and Authoritarianism</title>
		<link>http://iiviannamasso.wordpress.com/2009/08/26/the-left-right-division-and-authoritarianism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2009 16:19:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Iivi Anna Masso</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Published here in Estonian. The meaning of political Left and Right has often been somewhat arbitrary and confusing, and now it seems more and more so. In parts of the post-Soviet world ten years ago members of the decent society &#8230; <a href="http://iiviannamasso.wordpress.com/2009/08/26/the-left-right-division-and-authoritarianism/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=iiviannamasso.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8119595&amp;post=174&amp;subd=iiviannamasso&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>There is no contest in victimhood</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2009 10:44:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Iivi Anna Masso</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Efraim Zuroff, the director of Simon Wiesenthal Center&#8217;s Israel office, took a stand in Jerusalem Post against the &#8220;Prague Declaration on European Conscience and Communism&#8221; and the proposition to establish a combined day of commemoration for the victims of both Nazism and &#8230; <a href="http://iiviannamasso.wordpress.com/2009/07/23/there-is-no-contest-in-victimhood/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=iiviannamasso.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8119595&amp;post=159&amp;subd=iiviannamasso&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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