Russia Turns New Law Against Kremlin Critics
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MOSCOW, Sept. 25 -- Andrei Piontkovsky, one of Russia's most pungent political commentators and a visiting scholar at the Hudson Institute in Washington, was accused in court Tuesday of inciting violence against Russians, Jews and Americans as well as insulting and stirring feelings of inferiorit...
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Russia's culture minister on Wednesday said new British laws providing legal immunity for some contested artworks would clear the way for a planned exhibit of Russian art in London next month.
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Arts & entertainment: Government bringing forward new laws in effort to save exhibition put at risk by row with Russia
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Russia's parliament drafted proposals  for an anti-terrorism law Monday, the day it began an inquiry  into the Beslan school siege that killed more than 320  hostages, half of them children.
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President Vladimir Putin ordered  sweeping changes to Russia's political system on Monday to help  combat terrorism, but immediately drew accusations of  exploiting this month's bloody school siege to boost his power.
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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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Kremlin accused of invoking threat of forced military service to intimidate anti-Putin activists.
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President Vladimir Putin announced radical changes to Russia&#39;s democratic institutions yesterday that will give the Kremlin greater power than at any time since the fall of the Soviet Union.
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Hundreds of Kremlin critics gathered Sunday on Constitution Day to denounce what they call a retreat from democracy as President Vladimir Putin signed a bill scrapping gubernatorial elections.
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Russia plans its first laws to crack down on industrial polluters next year, and will force offending companies to invest in clean technology rather than pay fines, the natural resources minister said Friday.
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President Vladimir Putin has ordered sweeping changes to Russia&#39;s political system to help combat terrorism, but immediately has drawn charges he is exploiting a bloody school siege to boost his personal power.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday stripped many of the duties of his top economic advisor - an outspoken critic who has accused the Kremlin of trying to muzzle voices of dissent and civil society in ...
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MOSCOW  - Russia's top electoral official on Saturday criticized a bill that would toughen registration requirements for political parties, suggesting Kremlin support for the legislation - which critics say is intended to stifle dissent - is not guaranteed.
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Russia rejected US criticism of moves to strengthen Kremlin power, saying they were reforms of a domestic nature that were perfectly constitutional.
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MOSCOW Russia&#39;s foreign minister on Wednesday defended sweeping political changes announced earlier this week by President Vladimir Putin, telling the United States and other critics that the plans were an internal matter.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday 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 ...
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The Russian government has dismissed Western criticism of the sweeping political changes proposed by President Vladimir Putin, shrugging off concerns by the US and the