Azeri human rights defender Emin Huseynov found refuge in the Swiss embassy. Now he has been allowed to go to Switzerland.

It is no accident that the "European" Games are being held in a tyrannical state near the border of Europe — and no accident that the contestants don't talk and probably don't think about this.

I have never considered sports or those who play them to be a model of any kind. It is silly to put so much effort into a struggle with nothing important at stake, and for others to pay so much attention to the outcome. This article argues that high-level sports impose total political censorship on the athletes while disconnecting them from the political issues of life, so that they become unfit to participate in democracy.