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Criminal Justice Clinic Journal

Here are some journal entries of Ves's describing his recent Rule 16 experiences in the Office of the state Attorney for Anne Arundel County. They are written in February - March 2006 and were sent to the family by John Severt.

Journal 1 - Today was my first day at the office....

Making the Necessary Possible
An Examination of Humanitarian Intervention

In 1995, speaking on Capitol Hill about operations in Somalia, Marine Corps General Anthony Zinni announced: “On the Hill, I was challenged a few times about why we ever get involved in this. Well, we get involved in this because we get asked to do it…I’ll tell you what- I’ve walked the ground and seen a lot of dead children. I’ve seen a lot of people who have starved to death or have been brutally massacred alongside a road.And something inside me says, “Maybe I shouldn’t be doing this, but…I want to do it.”


The Pinochet Case and the Development of Universal Jurisdiction

September 11, 1973, Salvador Allende – the President of Chile was woken up. The Navy at the Port Valparaiso had rebelled. After all calls to military commands proved unavailing, Allende set out for the Presidential Palace with fifty Carabineros and a group of friends which had become a personal bodyguard since his election three years prior. This was all the Chilean democracy had left to defend itself.


Alarming Tendency

This is an article published in "Novoe Russkoe Slovo" - Russian newspaper in New York in 1998, Ves' being a senior in Styvesant High School

Тревожная тенденция

My Grandfather

This is a letter that Ves (Seva) wrote to Dr. Allen, a close family friend, in 1991, when Ves was 10 years old. He had only arrived in the United States with his family one year before this.

Letter to Dr. Allen

Detention Power

This Acticle Ves sent as his writing sample in support of his application to NYU and FORDHAM universities LLM program.

Introduction: In October 2001, Attorney General John Ashcroft spoke to reporters at the Department of Justice in Washington vowing to pursue aggressive "arrest and detention" tactics in the war on terror.

5 short stories

One of Ves’s first assignments on the Writing class in the Newhouse school of Journalism SU

Parmalee
On Friday nights, while most Syracuse University students are dancing at Marshall Street Bars or kicking back at home with a cold one, junior Todd Parmalee finds himself in the front seat of a police car as a participant in the Syracuse Police Ridealong Program....

Take a train
This weekend, the Fulton War Memorial played host to "The Christmas Town Express,"an exhibition of model railroads put on by the Oswego Valley Railroad Association. An estimated thousand people attended the show...

Football
It’s four in the afternoon on a chilly October Tuesday, and the football wing of the Manley athletic complex is humming with the excitement of an upcoming practice. The coaches are still wrapping up their meetings, reviewing game tape and taking last second notes....

Jeff Dennis profile
The clock is showing 7 a.m and outside it's still dark. The always jam-packed Archbold Weight Center is virtually empty. As I enter, a smallish kid on the treadmill winks his eyes and greets me with a big, toothy grin ...

Sproket-Jockeys
Wearing a cutoff t-shirt, a black bandana, socks with smirking skulls and sporting a foot long braid, Thad Miller seems a creature straight out of a Mad Max Movie. Yet, the rough exterior hides a smiling, laid back stunt rider from Southern California....

Письма в Россию. Ves’s letters to his friends to Russia 1991-1994

Letter1 - Письмо 1, February, 1991
Letter2 - Письмо 2, December, 1991
Letter3 - Письмо 3, December 1992
Letter4 - Письмо 4, October, 1993
Letter5 - Письмо 5, November, 1994