Treason appeal rejected in Russia
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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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A Tokyo court on Friday rejected a request by former world chess champion Bobby Fischer to have the Japanese authorities halt procedures to deport him, his lawyer said.
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Russian Defence Minister rejects allegations that have sparked a crisis in the between Russia and Israel.
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Russia officially refuses a UK extradition request for Andrei Lugovoi, prime suspect in the Litvinenko murder case.
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KIEV -- Western-leaning reformer Viktor Yushchenko's long and tension-filled drive to become Ukraine's president cleared its final hurdles before dawn today when the Supreme Court rejected an appeal by the losing candidate and government newspapers printed election results. After deliberations that stretched to 2:30 a.m., the court announced it had rejected the appeal of former prime minister Viktor Yanukovych. The ...
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Russia rejected on Wednesday U.S. criticism of sweeping political changes proposed by President Vladimir Putin, saying this was a matter strictly for Moscow to decide.
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MOSCOW A court here on Tuesday turned down two important appeals by Yukos, the largest Russian oil producer.
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The Supreme Court of Ukraine has rejected a petition submitted by Viktor Yanukovych's side on changing the appeal's jurisdiction and sending it for consideration to the Higher Administrative Court.
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Ukraine's Supreme Court on Monday turned down four appeals of last month's presidential election results filed by Viktor Yanukovych, the former prime minister who preliminary results show lost to a ...
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A Tokyo court on Friday rejected a request by former world chess champion Bobby Fischer to have Japanese authorities halt procedures to deport him, Kyodo news agency reported.
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A U.S. federal judge on Friday rejected an appeal seeking to block the extradition of deposed Panamanian strongman Manuel Noriega to France after his long prison sentence in Florida ends on Sunday.
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A Russian court on Thursday rejected an appeal by the Yukos oil company seeking to overturn a freeze on the accounts of the struggling oil giant&#39;s core subsidiaries.
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Ukraine's Supreme Court dismisses a final appeal against Viktor Yushchenko's win.
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Russia's constitutional court says Tatarstan's local language cannot switch to the Latin alphabet from Cyrillic.
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Russia's high court upholds a 15-year sentence against an arms expert convicted of spying for the US.
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MOSCOW, May 23 (IPS) - Leading non profitable organisations and civil  society have vehemently rejected Russian President Vladimir  Putin's accusation last week that they did not take  collective action when Estonian authorities removed Soviet war  monuments from the city centre to an obscure location.
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MOSCOW - The upper house of the Russian parliament on Wednesday rejected a bill that would have banned public beer consumption.  The bill already had been approved by the lower house of parliament, the State Duma, which is dominated by the pro-Kremlin United Russia party.