Russia's Champion of Hopeless Cases Is Targeted for Disbarment
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MOSCOW -- Karina Moskalenko spent a sleepless night in Strasbourg, France, last month writing and rewriting a petition to the European Court of Human Rights for Garry Kasparov, the chess champion and anti-Kremlin activist who was briefly arrested in connection with a demonstration here in April that...
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The Russian Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected an appeal from an arms control researcher who was sentenced to 15 years in prison for treason in what rights advocates have called a politically motivated case.
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Russian prosecutors on Monday brought new charges against Mikhail Khodorkovsky, a move likely to bury the politically ambitious tycoon's hopes of release from jail before 2008 presidential elections.
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MOSCOW (CP) - Russia's once-mighty Communist party, battling internal strife and facing electoral extinction, has embraced a surprising late-life mission: to champion democracy against the encroachments of an increasingly authoritarian Kremlin.
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Russian officials say there are grounds to bar Mikhail Kasyanov from the presidential race.
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Russia has begun an effort to curtail the activities of election observers in the states of the former Soviet Union.
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Russian papers suggest reasons why Alexander Veshnyakov has been removed as head of the Central Electoral Commission .
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MOSCOW -- Russian President Vladimir Putin yesterday stripped many of the duties of his top economic adviser -- an outspoken critic who has accused the Kremlin of trying to muzzle voices of dissent and civil society in Russia. Andrei Illarionov, who last week said the Kremlin efforts to censure the public would eventually spark mass protests, was stripped of his ...
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A defense lawyer for jailed oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky said Tuesday anti-democratic trends were emerging in Russia under President Vladimir Putin with the aim of quieting political opponents.
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A U.S.-funded non-governmental organization that trains journalists has been effectively shut down and its director has left Russia amid criminal prosecution her lawyers said Friday was part of a government campaign against NGOs.
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Ukraine's supreme court said that it would review the first of an expected two appeals over a rerun presidential vote, as the defeated candidate pressed on with an admittedly hopeless campaign against his loss to Viktor Yushchenko.
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In 1999, President Vladimir Putin promised Russians a two-week war that would crush the separatist enemy. Instead, he has given them an endless struggle that haunts his presidency.
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A Moscow court has rejected a request to drop part of the criminal case against the jailed former chief of Yukos oil company, Mikhail Khodorkovsky.
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The head of Russia's biggest opposition  party is considering dropping out of the race against Kremlin  front-runner Dmitry Medvedev to be the next president, a  newspaper reported on Wednesday.
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The Soviet authorities have had enough of Andrei Sakharov, their troublesome nuclear weapons designer and moral conscience. He's too famous to shoot or imprison, so they banish him to a closed city on the Volga.
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MOSCOW, Jan. 23 (IPS) - A leading human rights lawyer has accused the  Kremlin of obstructing the work of the European Court of Human  Rights.
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MOSCOW, Feb. 15 -- President Vladimir Putin dismissed the president of Chechnya on Thursday, clearing a path to the southern republic's highest office for Ramzan Kadyrov, the controversial prime minister of Chechnya who has been accused of major human rights abuses in his drive to pacify the war-torn region....