Investigators Tuesday searched the apartment of former Interior Minister Yuriy Lutsenko who is now an opponent of the powerful prime minister and his Cabinet, The Associated Press news agency reports, quoting Lutsenko’s spokeswoman.
Popularity: 2% [?]
March 21, 2007A Moscow court ruled Friday that former Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov should return his luxury country house to the government, the RIA-Novosti news agency reported.
Popularity: 1% [?]
March 17, 2007Russian police detained 50 protesters overnight as 5000 demonstrated in Saint Petersburg against President Vladimir Putin’s leadership.
Popularity: 2% [?]
March 3, 2007A Russian ultra-right movement has launched a campaign to propose Belarusian President Aleksander Lukashenko as a candidate for Russia’s 2008 presidential election, the Radio Free Europe reported on Wednesday.
Popularity: 2% [?]
February 28, 2007
Russian authorities pulled hundreds of opposition activists off buses and trains and detained them along with scores of others on Saturday ahead of a rare anti-government rally in Moscow, organizers are quoted by the Associated Press news agency.
Popularity: 2% [?]
December 17, 2006
Former Belarussian presidential candidate Alexander Milinkevich has said he intends to spend the prize money given to him as part of the Sakharov Prize in support of political prisoners.
Popularity: 1% [?]
December 12, 2006Russian police have seized propaganda materials from the office of the United People’s Front opposition group to check them for extremist content, the Interior Ministry said in a statement Tuesday.
Popularity: 1% [?]
A leader of Kyrgyzstan’s oppositional movement that has pushed for a constitutional change by staging recent street protests has survived a grenade attack on his home, Russian news agency ITAR-TASS reported on Monday.
Popularity: 2% [?]
November 15, 2006Kyrgyz police Tuesday afternoon fired tear gas at thousands gathered to demand constitutional reform in the former Soviet republic’s capital, the DPA news agency reported on Tuesday quoting Kyrgyz news agencies. Casualties were reported, with a correspondent from Russian television channel NTV saying ambulances had been called to remove those who had been injured from the scene.
Popularity: 1% [?]
November 7, 2006Kyrgyzstan’s government on Tuesday rejected a move by opposition lawmakers to pass a new constitution, calling it an attempt to seize power illegally, The Associated Press reports.
Popularity: 1% [?]
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