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From turmoil of uncertainty to certainty of turmoil
Katia Zatuliveter
Katia Zatuliveter is a former parliamentary researcher in the British Parliament accused by MI5 of espionage activities and is now fighting this allegation in a British court. She received her Bachelor’s degree in European Studies from St. Petersburg School of International Relations and her master’s in conflict resolution from the University of Bradford, UK. She went on to work on the issues of freedom of expression in the human rights NGO Article 19 in London. Zatuliveter later worked on European defense issues in the European Security and Defence Assembly in Paris. During her time as a parliamentary researcher in the House of Commons, she has also contributed to the blog of the UK Defence Forum and helped the international production company Brook Lapping with their documentary on Russian-Western relations. She has a strong interest in international relations, defense and conflict resolution, especially in the Caucasus region where she was born and raised.
20 November, 2011, 17:39
Non user-friendly Egyptian elections
Just days before parliamentary elections, Egyptians are back on Tahrir Square. And can you blame them? Hosni Mubarak is gone, but not his ways of ruling the country. Notwithstanding multiple protests, the Mubarak-era politicians were allowed by a court to stand in upcoming elections. But this is not the only problem with these parliamentary elections. They are so complicated it is unclear...
17 November, 2011, 13:00
Technocracy vs democracy
I always found technocracy exciting. What a great idea to have a government filled not with politicians, but with people who actually know what they are doing! But is the reality of the technocratic governments as appealing as its theory? The newly-formed governments of Mario Monti in Italy and Lucas Papademos in Greece have embarked on a journey to find an answer to this question. Both men are...
16 November, 2011, 17:26
Benazir Bhutto’s assassins: an open-ended question
It’s the destiny of many great leaders to be assassinated. Former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto was one of them. On 27 December 2007 she and more than 20 others were killed in a suicide bombing in Rawalpindi during an election campaign. Two weeks ago, a Pakistani court concluded its trial and formally charged seven people, including two senior police officers and five suspected...
11 November, 2011, 23:17
The end of Gaddafi regime brought polygamy to Libya
On February 15th, 2011 several women protested outside the Libyan prison Abu Salim in Benghazi. They were mothers, daughters and wives of the political prisoners killed by the Gaddafi regime. All these women were massacred too. Their deaths sparked the uprising, which ended the Gaddafi regime last month. Libyan women not only started the uprising in Libya, they remained in the forefront of the...
22 October, 2011, 22:56
Britain to leave the European Union?
On Monday the British parliament is forced to debate a very fragile topic – the holding of a national referendum on UK membership of the European Union. The politicians will discuss whether to support the motion to conduct a referendum which will include three choices for the UK: - to leave the EU; - to remain with the EU; - to try to renegotiate the terms of the EU membership. The government...
17 October, 2011, 01:22
Britain is rewriting its history
When I first arrived to live in the UK, one of the things that struck me was the British people’s belief that the UK on its own (some would add with a bit of help from the US) won World War II. Every time I heard it, it made me choke. I was grateful my grandparents had never heard it, believing till the last minute of their lives that the British were their allies in World War II, not realizing...
9 October, 2011, 17:25
Women-winners of Nobel Peace Prize
In the past few years the Norwegian Nobel Commission made several controversial decisions when choosing Nobel Peace Prize laureates. But this year’s winners have been welcomed by the international community with open arms. The Nobel Peace Prize was shared between three women: Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Liberian peace activist Leymah Gbowee, and Yemeni human rights activist...
5 October, 2011, 16:59
‘British Obama’
A young and energetic Labour MP Chuka Umunna is known around parliament as the “British Obama”. It’s not only his skin color that makes people think so (his father was of Nigerian and mother of Anglo-Irish descent), but he is also dynamic, articulate and charismatic, qualities attributed to pre-election Obama. Chuka Umunna became an MP in the 2010 general elections and is rapidly scaling the...
4 October, 2011, 01:45
Afghan women – forgotten victims of invasion
This week will be 10 years since the invasion in Afghanistan. The US used liberation and emancipation of women as one of its justifications for the invasion. There is something truly disturbing in this shift in geopolitical discourse, when leaders who a few decades ago were speaking out enthusiastically against what feminism stands for have now co-opted the language of feminism for their...
22 September, 2011, 18:30
Assange’s ‘must read’ non-auto biography
The controversy around Julian Assange is not over. Today his autobiography is finally published. Readers were kept waiting since April, when the book was supposed to come out. Those who thought they would finally hear Assange’s take on WikiLeaks, his damaged relationship with The Guardian and The New York Times , and proceedings regarding his extradition to Sweden over sexual abuse allegations...
