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Lawrence Wilkerson is a retired United States Army Colonel who held key roles in government, including serving as Chief of Staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell from 2002 to 2005. Wilkerson played a role in preparing US Secretary of State Colin Powell’s presentation in 2003 at the United Nations in making the case for [...]

Ukrainian officials accused Russia Sunday of committing war crimes following the release of a video allegedly showing armed Russian soldiers shooting two unarmed Ukrainian soldiers, leading to the launching of an investigation by Ukrainian prosecutors. JURIST has reviewed the video footage, but out of respect for the victim and their families, we will not link [...]

Slovak truck drivers joined Polish truck drivers on Friday and announced that they would block the Vysne Nemecke border crossing with Ukraine to protest EU policies towards Ukrainian competitors, which they call unfair. The Slovak truckers union UNAS released a statement saying they want to the EU immediately terminate an agreement with Ukraine that they [...]

Ernesa Shala is a JURIST staff correspondent in Kosovo and a recent graduate of the University of Pristina Faculty of Law. She files this dispatch from Pristina.   Due to concerns that the unresolved situation between Kosovo and Serbia could increase instability in the region, NATO Foreign Ministers meeting in Brussels this week are discussing [...]

Baroness Helena Kennedy of the Shaws, KC, is one of the UK’s most established lawyers, a bencher at Gray’s Inn and a member of the House of Lords. Kennedy is also a broadcaster,  journalist and lecturer. She has not only acted in many of the most prominent cases of the last decade but has promoted civil [...]

Indeed, the geopolitical landscape is complex, especially when discussing Iran’s involvement in various global issues. Central to these concerns are allegations of Iran’s support for Russian aggression against Ukraine, its perceived stance on Israel, and its role as a destabilizing force in the Middle East. Firstly, Iran’s relationship with Russia has raised apprehensions, particularly regarding [...]

Joshua Villanueva is a JURIST Assistant Editor and a 2L at UC Law San Francisco (formerly UC Hastings), He files this dispatch from San Francisco.  The recently-concluded Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) leaders’ summit, originally designed to address economic challenges in the Asia-Pacific region, found itself overshadowed by the unfolding drama of the US-China relationship. As [...]

In a press conference on Friday, Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced coming reforms to its mobilization efforts. Ukraine’s military is in the midst of a recruiting crisis as the war against Russia rages on. Zelenskyy did not specify the structure of the reforms. However, Zelenskyy said that in a “challenging” meeting with his staff, “special [...]

Russia placed Ukrainian singer Jamala on a wanted list Monday based on an undisclosed criminal charge. As reported by Mediazona, Susana Jamaladinova, known as Jamala, was added to the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs wanted database in October and was arrested this month in absentia, meaning that Jamala was not physically present when the arrest [...]

Ukraine’s National Anti-Corruption Bureau announced investigations into two unnamed lawmakers on Tuesday for allegedly attempting to bribe reconstruction officials.   One lawmaker was alleged to have tried to bribe top reconstruction officials with bitcoins worth $50,000 in order to direct monies from the 4.77 billion hryvnia ($130 million) Fund for Liquidation of the Consequences of Armed [...]