Russian defense lawyers in hazardous profession
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Viktor Parshutkin knows the occupational  hazards of being a Russian defense lawyer: long hours, stress,  and the risk of imprisonment in a jail so overcrowded the  inmates have to sleep in shifts.
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The abuse of conscripts in the Russian military -- known as hazing or &quot;rule of the grandfathers&quot; (&quot;dedovshchina&quot;) in Russian -- is a widespread problem that independent monitors say claims several thousand lives each year.
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Russian men risk death by drinking aftershave and cleaning agents with high levels of alcohol, a study suggests.
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Estimated times of key developments in the nearly simultaneous crashes of two Russian airliners.
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MOSCOW. June 20 (Interfax) - Russian and Lithuanian experts have acknowledged the ecological safety of the D-6 oil platform at the Kravtsovskoye field, which is being developed by Lukoil- Kaliningradmorneft.
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Citing fears of intimidation, lawyers representing the business partner of jailed oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky filed a motion Monday waiving the right to call defense witnesses as their client's fraud and tax evasion trial drags on.
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Lawyers for core shareholders in Yukos have vowed to sue the Russia &#39;s gas giant Gazprom or any other buyer of the stricken oil group&#39;s main subsidiary, Yuganskneftegaz, which is up for auction.
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MOSCOW, Aug. 28 -- A Moscow court said Tuesday that it has issued an arrest warrant for Mikhail Gutseriyev, owner of Russneft, a major Russian oil company. He appeared to have become the latest Russian tycoon to flee the country after running afoul of the authorities. Gutseriyev is believed to ...
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VOLGOGRAD, October 28 (Itar-Tass) - Work in Beslan is nearing completion to sum up material damage, inflicted by terrorists on September 1-3, Deputy Prosecutor-General Nikolai Shepel said in an interview with Tass on Thursday.
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The companyâs lawyers had attempted to gain the upper hand in a patent case by highlighting safety concerns about the companyâs own product.
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MOSCOW -- In the bloodstained post-Soviet period, feuds over money and power have often been solved by bullets or bombs. But confirmation that Ukrainian opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko was disfigured by dioxin draws attention to suspicious cases in Russia in which poison may have been used to silence political foes and settle business scores.
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The widow of the poisoned ex-spy Alexander V. Litvinenko said he worried about the safety of exiles after Russia passed a law legalizing attacks beyond its borders.
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MOSCOW Sept. 6, 2004 - Prosecutors tightened the screws on Yukos on Monday, calling in the oil giant&#39;s top in-house lawyer for questioning after searching his office and apartment on the same day the company
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A study says Russian men risk death drinking aftershave and cleaning agents with high alcohol levels.
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A 20-year-old Russian has been fined for his involvement last spring.
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Restano Ivanov, Medvedev, Lavrov e Serdiukov, fuori Gref
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MOSCOW - Russian officials accused terrorists Friday after the wreckage of one of two crashed jetliners revealed traces of an explosive used in earlier attacks blamed on Chechen rebels, while an Islamic group claimed its suicide attackers brought down both planes.    At least one crash was "the result of a terrorist act," a spokesman for the Federal Security Service, Sergei Ignatchenko, told the ITAR-Tass news agency...