Several 1000 have been detained but the demonstrators are not giving up these are protests on a scale russia has not seen in a long time. One of the demonstrators this 19 year old anastasio for most of her life she has known only president Vladimir Putin and his policies her protesters mix with the anger about the brutal treatment of the opposition and the suspicion that putin might be enriching himself without measure for many young people in the hometown of. This is the 1st time they are taking part in a political protest. Disgrace disgrace and we are the power people chant in the center of new clues next siberia here answering the call of the arrested Opposition Leader alexei navalny. Among them 19 year old activist honest as yet but stephen. You matter the next day at the police with a protest was held in the city park of new york whose needs. She says she could tests against restrictions on freedom of speech the lack of perspective and the poor standard of living in russia. Which
Quarry close to the Serbia Kosovo border is the site of a recently discovered mask raith identifying the bodies is extremely difficult both technically and emotionally are some good shall you as made it his mission to do just that he knows many relatives are still waiting for answers and for justice. This place hides a grim secret the quarry is in serbia not far from the border with kosovo after a long search a further mass grave was found here at the end of 2020 with victims from the cause of the war there were still 1600 people missing since the war most of them kosovo albanians. Now seem to charlie you is the head of the institute of forensic medicine in pristina he is always present with the remains of victims are recovered and have to be identified he says this is often difficult after more than 20 years. Good or bad these remains found last week is that the clothes are intact. Whats also very helpful is when there is a wedding ring or something similar. So the more. The forensic
Four this evening. I am evan dolly, on behalf of the History Program here, welcome. I should say at the outset, we are able to hold this top thanks to the generous funding of the history fund which is supporting this event. And let me jump straight to introducing our speaker for the evening. Our speaker for this evening is doctor robert chiles. He studied music and found the true faith and began a ph. D. In history in 2012 at the university of maryland. The top he will be giving this evening is a result of that ph. D. Dissertation, i believe. Yes. He has, in the course of this particular research for this project received a couple of prestigious honors the new York State Library Cunningham Research residency, and the new york state archives Ownership Trust hackman residency, to conduct research on governor alfred e. Smith, and as part of his next research project, on a Congress Woman from the state of new jersey and an advocate from the fair labors acts, he has received from the new Je
Provided the video. Good morning, everyone and thank you for joining us for what promises to be a timely, eliminating roundtable discussion looking back on the 50th anniversary of the successful struggle to elect newarks first black mayor, kenneth gibson. Elected in june of 1917, is an 1970,stration marked his administration was part of a wave of political to 1974. Ion from 1967 his history is vital right now as black lives struggle against Police Violence against george floyd, breonna taylor, and the attempted murder of jacob blake have found a call for black liberation ball raising familiar questions about the roles of electoral politics and black freedom struggles. Electionago, gibsons came on the heels of the 1967 rebellion in newark, the Police Beating about unarmed man sparked an uprising against White Supremacy and its enforcers in blue and its enforcers in blue in the jim crow north. Racism,anizing around renewal projects, and countlessl injustice, beatings had gone unpunished
Think in my opinion is really one of the most important stories of our time. Is not been well told until now. Were going to talk about that today. I got to know carter page professionally as an Investigative Reporter covering story i really was blown away by the facts and when you cover stories where household interest in trying to take them and youre not giving the true picture. We will talk about all of that today. Carter, can we start with you giving little brief background of your education, where you went to school and just very briefly, your job experience and career. Yes thank you so much for doing this today and its great to be with you. So i grew up in Dutchess County new york. If i received the nomination for the u. S. Naval academy. I started of the week after i graduated high school. That was in 1989. So i completed annapolis and was then commissioned in the u. S. Navy and served in the u. S. Na navy. First is an armscontrol officer doing International Arms control negotiat