TODAY: Medvedev fires prison officials connected with Sergei Magnitsky’s death; imposters cash in on Perm investigations; Medvedev’s European-Atlantic security body, NATO, what does failed missile test say about Russia’s defense ...
As we published in our posting yesterday, there have been several arbitrary, senseless arrests in Venezuela following the judicial order which released Eligio Cedeño on his own recognizance. Most of the press has focused on the detention of Judge ...
Yesterday around noon, when we heard reports that the political prisoner Eligio Cedeño, a client whom I represent, had finally been released on parole from his unlawful detention after almost three full years of imprisonment without conviction of ...
Here goes a comment reported in the Wall Street Journal on the firing of 20 top prison officials: The sackings fall short, however, of the broader inquiry into alleged police and judicial corruption that Mr. Magnitsky’s former colleagues hav...
Did I find this wonderful quote myself? No way! From The Atlantic via The Weekly Standard via the Associated Press. I’m full of link love today. Photographs and amateur video footage of the bluish-white in the Norwegian ski...
Sergei Magnitsky was a Russian lawyer for Hermitage Capital Management who was tortured and murdered through medical blackmail while held in prison, never convicted of a crime. He was not given the medicines and treatment he needed to live b...
Today I see the news that they have sentenced a policeman who murdered the journalist Magomed Yevloyev to two years in jail for the killing. I hate to sound like a broken record, but isn’t a two year sentence for blowing a guy’s ...
Poland’s PGNiG and Russia’s Gazprom have finally come to an agreement on gas supplies through to 2037. North Korea has signaled that it is ready to end its year-long boycott of nuclear negotiations with the U.S., Russia, China, J...
Russia says it will submit requested information to the WTO by the end of the year, clearing the way for a decision to be made on how a membership bid will proceed. ‘Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill announced this week that after carefully ...
TODAY: Putin calls for sanctions on Perm officials as death toll continues to rise; military officers dismissed over hazing; ‘UFO’ is failed Russian missile test; opinion polls up and down over Putin; Belarus and Russia in ’emoti...
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