Catherine Fitzpatrick

Experience

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  Russian Translation and Consulting

  Jan 1978 - now

  I am an independent thinker. My views are my own. Are yours? http://3dblogger.typepad.com/wired_state/google_witch_hunters.htmlI don't to put all my positions here -- write me at catfitzny@yahoo.com for my resume. Specialize in current events, politics, law, human rights, humanitarian affairs, communications, culture, business. More than 20 books published including memoirs of Yeltsin, Putin, Shevardnadze, Yakovlev, Ligachev.

  • Self-Employed

    Jun 2002 - now

  • Russian Translator

    Jan 1978 - now
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  Freedom House

  Jan 1979 - Sept 1981

  Assistant to Director, Assistant Editor

  Freedom Appeals, a monthly magazine of samizdat from Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. Managed lecture program and assisted emigres in exile and ran human rights campaigns.

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  Helsinki Watch

  Sept 1981 - Aug 1990

  Research Director

  of Human Rights Watch, leading U.S.-based international human rights group. Director of Research for Eurasia. Responsible for writing or editing publications, bulletins, action alerts, Congressional testimony, etc., on Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. Author or editor of several major book-length studies about emerging civil society, reform of the legal system, abuse of psychiatry, and prison systems.

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  Komar and Melamid

  Jan 1986 - Jan 2008

  Translator and Interpreter

  org/, Russian émigré conceptual artists, providing interpretation for lectures and performances, translating documents, titles, book material

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  International Science Foundation

  Jan 1992 - Jan 1993

  Office Director

  Program officer for a two-year program to support unemployed scientists in the former Soviet Union. Responsible for $2 million travel program and management of grant applications for scientific conference participation.

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  Committee to Project Journalists

  Apr 1996 - Oct 1997

  Eurasia Desk Coordinator

  Responsible for case work in the Eurasia and East European regions and authoring relevant chapters in the annual report "Attacks on the Press".

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  International League for Human Rights

  Oct 1997 - Jan 2003

  Executive Director

  Non-profit, non-governmental organization in special consultative status with UN ECOSOC. Responsible for management, fund-raising, programs, and publications, including weekly bulletins, UN submissions, alternative reports to treaty bodies, urgent action alerts, country and thematic reports, translations and editing websites (www.ilhr.org and www.belarusupdate.org) Increased budget to $3.5 million for this small NGO and started projects in Belarus, Russia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone

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  RFE/RL

  Jan 2002 - Jan 2005

  Freelance Editor

  Editor of two weekly web publications "(Un)Civil Societies" and "Media Matters"

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  Eurasianet.org

  Dec 2006 - Jan 2012

  Freelance writer

  Editor of Choihona and Sifting the Karakum blogs and weekly newsletters on Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan

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  The Interpreter

  Apr 2013 - now

  Translator and Blogger

  http://www.interpretermag.com