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The Effectiveness of Amnesty International In 1961, two Portuguese students raising a toast to freedom were imprisoned for 7 years. Upon learning about the controversy, Peter Benenson, a British lawyer published The Forgotten Prisoners in the Observer newspaper. This became the article that launched Amnesty International and the worldwide campaign to take action and fight for human rights. Amnesty International or commonly called "AI" is a worldwide, non for profit organization that advocates and

Gary Vaynercuk (Gary Vee) is a Belarusian, Russian. Gary and his eight family members immigrated to the U.S. in 1978. After they immigrated to the U.S., they lived in a studio-apartment in Queens, New York. Then, they moved to Edison, New Jersey where Gary operated a lemonade-stand franchise and earned thousands of dollars on weekends by trading baseball cards. 2.2 Career Gary took over his father’s Liquors store after he graduated from college in 1998 and renamed the store to Wine Library, also

I came to the United States from Russia almost 15 years ago in the 1999, with perspectives to discover something new and maybe in the pursuit of success. Being 17 year old out of high school I had no idea what to do with my life and what expect from this country. Nevertheless, I expected more opportunities and chances for success here than from my motherland. 90’s was a pretty tough period of time in Russia. After disbandment of the Soviet Union in the December of 1991, young democracy named Russian

Introduction Ukraine is a large and pivotal state, occupying an important and sensitive location between the Russian Federation and the eastern European states. The country borders several members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), such as Poland and Romania. Up until 1991, Ukraine was a member of the Soviet Union. Their independence has long been the source of conflict and dispute in the region, and has led to violent armed conflict in recent years. The country has a rich history

Which Structural Factors Facilitate Democratisation? Simon Angelini The question of what facilitates democratisation is one of great debate, with numerous theoretical paradigms attempting to provide an answer. Structuralism is one such approach, generally placing emphasis on macrocosmic forces and processes that are abstracted from individual situations, and thus apply universally. Structuralism has been dominated since the 1950s by socio-economic theories, starting largely with Lipset . He asserted

The investigation assesses how accurate the film “Defiance” was in portraying the experiences of Bielski Otriad. In order to understand how accurate the film “Defiance” was, research has to be done to investigate specific internal and external situations the Bielskis faced during World War II in the forests of Belarus. Assessing the differences and the similarities in both the movie and the documentary will be the method used to analyse. The method that will be used in the analysis will explain the

within that range is unknown, but Asimov himself celebrated it on January 2.[1] The family name derives from a word for winter crops, in which his great-grandfather dealt. This word is spelled озимые (ozimye) in Russian, and азімыя (azimiya) in Belarusian. Phonetically, both words are almost identical because in Russian 'О' in the first unstressed syllable is always pronounced as 'А'. Accordingly, his name originally was Исаак Озимов (Isaak Ozimov) in Russian; however, he was

believe and to act without asking questions.” -Primo Levi. The Holocaust was an age of man killing man over prejudices and blind hatred. Around 6 million Jews, around 3 million Ethnic Poles, 3 million Ukrainian Slavs, 2-3 million Soviets, 1.5 million Belarusian Slavs, around 400,000 Serbs, 270,000 disabled, 90,000-220,000 Romani, 80,000-200,000 Freemasons, around 20,000 Slovenes, 5,000-15,000 Homesexuals, 2,500-5,000 Jehova’s Witnesses, and 7,000 Spanish republicans were murdered, forced into ghettos

“The Bielski Brothers” is a story of three amazing brothers, their journey of survival and experience they faced in World War II. Peter Duffy places this extraordinary story of survival in context by describing the Bielskis lives and experiences , quoting from Tuvia Bielskis previously unknown journal, and revealing the sociopolitical history, including the anti-Semitism of Belarus, a region the Bielski Brother’s had grown up in. WWII was one of the most unforgettable events in history, an event

To: Secretary of State John Kerry From: Rob Foglia, country desk officer of Belarus Re: Recommended U.S. foreign policy towards Belarus Date: October 12, 2014 Oppression in Belarus Breaking Free from Russia Belarus has the veil of a political stranglehold cast over it by the looming and neighboring Russia. Freedoms are non-existent, a tyrant maintains control over the country, and democracy is nowhere in sight. I have a few recommendations on how U.S. foreign policy towards Belarus can help