The Social Democratic Party of Russia, re-established in 2002 by former president of the USSR Mikhail Gorbachev was banned on Friday by the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation, the RIA-Novosti news agency reports.
Popularity: 3% [?]
April 13, 2007An anti-Kremlin rally in central Moscow on Saturday could spill over into violence, march organisers and their opponents said on Thursday, the Reuters news agency reports.
Popularity: 2% [?]
Mass protest action took place in the Kyrgyz capital Bishkek with thousands of opposition activists calling on President Kurmanbek Bakiyev to resign, the Reuters news agency reports.
Popularity: 1% [?]
April 12, 2007A court in South Russian Kuban Region has liquidated a Christian religious group that used swastika and Nazi salute as part of the cult.
Popularity: 2% [?]
April 10, 2007The European Court of Human Rights ruled against Russia on Thursday for repeatedly refusing to recognise Moscow’s Church of Scientology as a legally valid religious association.
Popularity: 2% [?]
April 6, 2007An ethnic Armenian man was killed in Samara, Russia by someone who painted a racist slogan on the victim’s television set, according to a March 30, 2007 report by Sova Information-Analytical Center, quoted by Armenian News Network.
Popularity: 4% [?]
April 5, 2007Russia’s troubled region of Chechnya prepared to install as its president on Thursday a 30-year-old amateur boxer whom human rights groups accuse of murdering and kidnapping civilians, the Reuters news agency reported on Thursday.
Popularity: 1% [?]
A former Russian inmate at the U.S. detention camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, has requested political asylum in the Netherlands, citing his lawyer and the organization Human Rights Watch, the RIA Novosti news agency reported April 4.
Popularity: 1% [?]
Museum authorities at the Auschwitz-Birkenau Nazi death camp have closed a Russian exhibition after Moscow changed it to describe eastern European citizens as Soviet, the AFP news agency reported April 4.
Popularity: 4% [?]
April 4, 2007Moscow mayor, Yury Luzhkov, wants to crack down on outsiders, whom he says are responsible for 40 percent of the Russian capital’s crime, the UPI news agency reported Tuesday.
Popularity: 2% [?]
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