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5 March 2012

Tiny Kox in Russia: Putin doesn’t want to just win, he wants to triumph

The entire world media came to the press conference which my colleagues from the OSCE and I gave in Moscow and at which we presented our provisional findings regarding the Russian presidential elections. On Sunday Vladimir Putin was promoted by the Russian voters from Prime Minister to President – although he was also during the last few years already the most powerful man in this, the world’s most extensive country. His election was not seriously challenged, though the manner in which it was achieved has been.

4 March 2012

Tiny Kox in Russia: Putin’s campaign

On Sunday 4th March Russia elects a new president. International observers are in the country to look into the degree to which the elections are free and fair. SP Senator Tiny Kox is head of the Council of Europe observers’ team and will report each day.

3 March 2012

Tiny Kox in Russia: will Putin win?

3 March 2012

SP Member of Parliament joins Bradley Manning Support Committee

SP Member of Parliament and foreign affairs spokesman Harry van Bommel this week joined the Dutch-Belgian Bradley Manning Support Committee. The Committee has been formed as a result of concern over the general treatment as well as the court martial of Bradley Manning, an American soldier prosecuted as a result of having made public US war crimes in Iraq. Manning has been behind bars since May 2010 on the basis of charges which could lead to the death penalty.

2 March 2012

Tiny Kox in Russia: preparations in Moscow

1 March 2012

Government policy on drugs: blessing for criminal, curse for Treasury

SP Member of Parliament Nine Kooiman argues in favour of a fundamental change in the Netherlands’ policies regarding drugs. ‘Because of the gradual erosion of the tolerance policy, street trade is flourishing along with organized crime,’ she says. ‘The regularisation of soft drugs could produce at least half a billion euros a year in revenue. It seems to me that in these times that would be most welcome.’

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