Under a new law that went into effect this week, non-Russians will not be allowed to work as salespeople in shops and markets.
Popularity: 1% [?]
April 4, 2007Moscow City Court has rejected the appeal filed by organizers of the Moscow gay pride parade challenging the Tverskoy district court’s ruling that banned the event, Interfax news agency reported April 2.
Popularity: 4% [?]
April 2, 2007Seven Russian terrorism suspects once held at the US detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, suffered torture and other abuse after being returned home in 2004, reads a new report by Human Rights Watch quoted by AFP.
Popularity: 2% [?]
March 29, 2007Georgia’s Ministry of Justice has announced it is suing Russia in the European Court of Human Rights for departing Georgian citizens illegally, the UPI reported March 26.
Popularity: 2% [?]
March 27, 2007Thousands of opposition protesters gathered this weekend in Minsk, Belarus, to mark the anniversary of the short-lived Belarussian republic in 1918, the UPI news agency reports.
Popularity: 2% [?]
March 26, 2007The Moscow authorities should give the go-ahead to gay pride parades, Alison Gil the head the Moscow office of the Human Rights Watch group, was quoted by the Interfax news agency as saying on Tuesday.
Popularity: 2% [?]
March 21, 2007A Moscow court ordered Mikhail Khodorkovsky transferred from a Siberian prison to a detention facility in the Russian capital amid a new investigation into theft and money laundering charges against the former oil tycoon, The Associated Press news agency reported on Tuesday quoting Khodorkovsky’s lawyer.
Popularity: 2% [?]
Brian “DJ Coldblooded” White beat a former Soviet political prisoner to death with a rock Thursday at a highway rest stop in the United Stated after the victim declined to buy his religious CDs.
Popularity: 1% [?]
March 17, 2007An international criminal group involved in human-trafficking and illegal immigration from southeast Asia and CIS countries to Western Europe through Russia has been broken by joint efforts of the Russian and foreign security services, the RIA Novosti news agency reported on March 15.
Popularity: 1% [?]
March 15, 2007A Russian woman paid a former convict to kill her 17-year-old son because she was fed up with sharing her small one-room flat with him.
Popularity: 1% [?]
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