Moscow Panel Backs Rights Lawyer
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MOSCOW, June 8 -- A panel at the Moscow Bar Association voted 9 to 2 Friday to reject a disbarment effort launched by federal prosecutors against leading Russian human rights lawyer Karina Moskalenko.
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Major human rights groups  snubbed a Moscow-sponsored rights conference in Chechnya on  Thursday, criticizing it as a sham designed to cover up abuses  in the troubled Caucasus republic.
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Russia hailed changes to a European draft resolution urging UN sanctions to force Iran to halt uranium enrichment but objected to a proposed travel ban on officials linked to Tehran's nuclear and missile programs.
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Russia violated the rights of a former top manager at Yukos, the country's largest oil company before it was declared bankrupt, by arresting him in 2003, Europe's human rights court ruled Thursday.
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Russia's foreign minister said on  Tuesday a draft United Nations Security Council resolution on  Iran over its nuclear program had largely met Moscow's concerns  and could become the basis of a consensus decision.
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Russia's top court backs a law banning the return of the remains of terror suspects to their families.
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MOSCOW -- Russia has restricted rights to such an extent that it has joined the countries that are ''not free" for the first time since the 1991 fall of the Soviet Union, Freedom House said yesterday, marking Moscow's march away from the Western democracies it has embraced as diplomatic partners.
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After meeting with Serbian President Boris Tadic, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that Russia supported resolving the Kosovo problem on the basis of UN Security Council resolution 1244.
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MOSCOW Russia&#39;s foreign minister says the US bankruptcy case involving the embattled Yukos oil company should be settled according to Russian law.
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Russia's Supreme Court upholds a 15-year sentence against a weapons expert convicted of spying for the US.
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Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Friday that the legal case against the country&#39;s embattled oil giant Yukos will be handled under Russian law.
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The UN War Crimes Tribunal has named two lawyers to defend former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic, despite his adamant objections.
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MOSCOW, Aug. 27 -- Russia's chief prosecutor announced on Monday that 10 people involved in the killing of journalist Anna Politkovskaya had been arrested, alleging that those behind the murder of the well-known Kremlin critic included members of Russia's security services. But it remained unclear...
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Russia's lower house of parliament gave tentative backing Friday to a key electoral reform proposed by President Vladimir Putin following a series of recent terror attacks that have killed hundreds and stunned Russians.
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Russian deputies submitted a draft  anti-terrorism law to parliament on Tuesday in the latest  security measure after attacks such as the Beslan school  massacre in which more than 330 people were killed.
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MOSCOW  - The Russian Supreme Court upheld an arms-control researcher's conviction on treason charges Tuesday, in a case lawyers and rights advocates say is part of a campaign of intimidation by law-enforcement agencies against academics and the press.
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BELGRADE, December 24 (RIA Novosti, Nikolai Paskhin) - At a Thursday conversation with the Russian journalists accredited in Belgrade chairman of Serbia s government Vojislav Kostunica shared the stand of the ...