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Human Rights Advocates Meet with Medvedev
Russian President Dmitri Medvedev held a meeting on Monday with the presidential Council on the Development of Civil Society to discuss the war on corruption and the state of non-profit organizations...
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Moscow Mayor to Get $17K in Libel Case
A Moscow court has found opposition politician Boris Nemtsov and the Kommersant newspaper guilty of libel against Moscow Mayor Yury Luzhkov, according to Nemtsov’s lawyer Vadim Prokhorov on Monday....
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Judges Seek Protection Against Outside Interference
Judges in Russia are requesting the right to initiate criminal proceedings against those attempting to pressure them and impede the due process of law, RIA Novosti reports. Supreme Court of...
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Medvedev Sums Up the Year
In the spirit of Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s annual marathon question and answer sessions, President Dmitri Medvedev sat down on December 24 with the heads of Russia’s three state...
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Murderer of Ingush Oppositionist Gets 2 Years House Arrest
In a grave setback for relatives of slain Ingush oppositionist Magomed Yevloyev, the Ingush High Court decided on Tuesday to significantly lighten the sentence of the oppositionist’s killer. Ibragim...
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Khodorkovsky Calls Putin to Court
Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the ex-CEO of former oil giant Yukos who has been sitting in a Siberian jail since 2005 on controversial charges of fraud, has issued a series of questions that he demands Russian...
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Accidental ‘Strategy 31′ Participant Sentenced to 2.5 Years Confinement
A Russian man from the city of Tver who came to Moscow to celebrate New Year’s Eve in Red Square and accidentally wound up in the middle of an opposition protest has been sentenced to two and a half...
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Kasparov: Gov’t Officials Will Answer For Their Crimes
As a group of Russian oppositionists continue to sit out jail sentences received in connection with an unsanctioned rally in defense of free assembly, opposition leader Garry Kasparov warns that the...
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Tortured Judge Speaks Out About Corruption
As tens of thousands of protesters have proven over the past month, anger at Russia’s broken political system is reaching critical mass. That one of the most popular figures in the wake of the...
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A Good Judge
Several days ago, we posted the live blog transcript from a trial in St. Petersburg accusing American pop diva Madonna of violating the city’s ban on “homosexual propaganda.” Even though the case...
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