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Activists Call for Police Rights Together With Reform
Activists at a rally in Moscow called both for Russia’s law enforcement to undergo drastic reform and for police officers to be given higher salaries and better rights.
7Mar2010 | Rebecca | Comments Off | Continued
Train Bombing Perpetrator Identified, Killed in Raid
The Russian Federal Security Service is saying that it has identified the perpetrator of a train bombing late last year that killed 26 people traveling from St. Petersburg to Moscow.
6Mar2010 | Rebecca | Comments Off | Continued
Kaliningrad Rally Organizers Form New Coalition
Leaders from a variety of opposition groups that took part in a recent massive rally in Kaliningrad have formed a new coalition intent on ending the political monopoly held by United Russia.
4Mar2010 | Rebecca | Comments Off | Continued
Ekho Moskvy Bans Song Critical of Lukoil VP
Ekho Moskvy, considered to be one of Russia’s only uncensored news sources, has clamped down on a host’s attempt to play a song criticizing a high-level oil executive suspected of killing two women in a car crash last month.
3Mar2010 | Rebecca | Comments Off | Continued
Luzhkov Promises Moscow Will See More of Stalin
Moscow Mayor Yury Luzhkov says that as an admirer of objective history, he plans from now on to use pictures of Josef Stalin in various celebrations put on by the city.
3Mar2010 | Rebecca | Comments Off | Continued
Murderer of Ingush Oppositionist Gets 2 Years House Arrest
In a new court decision handed down Tuesday, the murderer of Ingush oppositionst Magomed Yevloyev will now only have to spend two years under house arrest, as opposed time in a penal colony.
2Mar2010 | Rebecca | Comments Off | Continued
Irkutsk Ecologists Harassed by Center “E” for Protesting
An organization of Russian ecologists protesting the reopening of a toxic paper mill say that they are being harassed by police from the notoriously brutal Center for Extremism Prevention.
1Mar2010 | Rebecca | Comments Off | Continued
Kasparov: Don’t Cosy up to Russia, Europe
Writing for the Guardian, Russian opposition leader Garry Kasparov chastises European leaders for their close relationships with Russia that enable the Kremlin’s violent suppression of free speech and human rights.
27Feb2010 | Rebecca | Comments Off | Continued
Rechnik: State Stole Documents to Legalize Homes
Embattled residents of the Moscow village of Rechnik are claiming that the government stole the documents necessary to legally register their houses, dozens of which have already been demolished per court order.
26Feb2010 | Rebecca | Comments Off | Continued
Police Claim to Identify Estemirova’s Killer
Law enforcement agents are claiming that they have solved last summer’s scandalous murder of human rights activist Natalya Estemirova, but the activist’s colleagues are already refuting the announcement.
25Feb2010 | Rebecca | Comments Off | Continued
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