Tag Archives: Lyudmila Alexeyeva

RA’s Daily Russia News Blast – Dec 18, 2012

TODAY: New rights council unveiled, plans to lobby Western governments; Pussy Riot member offers insight into jail; Potanin named CEO of Norlisk as Abramovich intervention calls time on dispute. 2011 capital flight figures revised; arms sales boom. Amnesty decries gay propaganda law; state duma will consider banning U.S. adoptions of Russian children. Russia has a [...]

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RA’s Daily Russia News Blast – Nov 20, 2012

TODAY: Russia clashes with U.S. over Israel, calls for end to attacks; Soyuz space capsule lands safely; rights leaders promise to boycott foreign agent law; Bout List in retaliation for Magnitsky List? Pussy Riot lawyers leave their clients; Putin prevents Novatek from independent export; state company execs named wealthiest; author Strugatsky dies. Russia is urging [...]

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RA’s Daily Russia News Blast – Sept 28, 2012

TODAY: Sobchak cleared of tax evasion; Deripaska and Cherney settle; opposition to hold ‘free and fair’ elections online; deputies and diplomats accuse Europe of Russophobia; Gazprom seeks up front payments from China; Belarus saves $1 billion in duties; corruption-related crimes on the rise; Putin’s puppy for Chavez. Ksenia Sobchak, the socialite-turned-political activist, has been cleared [...]

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RA’s Daily Russia News Blast – July 23, 2012

TODAY: Pussy Riot detention extended to 2013; Alexeyeva criticises Putin on her birthday as the President signs WTO and NGO bills into law; Krasnodar officials face jail; United Russia protester dies; investments from Italy. The detention of political protest and punk group Pussy Riot has been extended for another six months to 2013, prompting a [...]

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