Tag: Helsinki Accords

Moscow Helsinki Group at 40 – Human Rights Activism Under Brezhnev and Under Putin

May 12, 2016

Ten New Studies on Russian Realities Not to Be Missed 2016-05-13 01:51:10 Staunton, VA – May 12, 2016 –  Last month, at the 14th annual conference of Moscow Higher School of Economics, more than 900 scholarly papers were presented on various aspects of social, economic and political life. Journalist Boris Grozovsky selected and summarized 24 of […]

Conflict In Ukraine Needs a New Helsinki Final Act

February 27, 2015

Staunton, February 24 – The conflict in Ukraine is not one conflict but three: it is a conflict between the eastern and western portions of Ukraine, it is a conflict between Russia and Ukraine, and it is a conflict between Russia and the West, Vladimir Pastukhov says. And to resolve all three will require a […]

25 Years After, Europe Still Not Whole or Free

September 9, 2014

The following is a speech delivered by Estonian President Toomas Hendrik Ilves at the Europe Conference in Oslo on 2 September 2014. It is reprinted from the website of the president of Estonia. The “25 Years After” is a reference to anti-communist democratic revolutions that began in 1989 in Eastern Europe and the fall of […]

Helsinki Final Act at 39 – Soviet Diplomacy’s ‘Fatal Triumph’

August 3, 2014

Staunton, August 1 – Thirty-nine years ago today, the leaders of 35 governments signed the Helsinki Final Act of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe, an event that Soviet officials viewed as a triumph but one that in fact put in motion forces that triggered the end of communism and the disintegration of […]