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World Briefing | Europe: Russia: Moratorium on Executions
Moscow :: Russia | 3 days ago
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Russia ’s Constitutional Court extended the country’s moratorium on the death penalty on Thursday, though it stopped short of fully abolishing capital punishment. In a statement , the Constitutional Court argued that permitting capital punishment would...
Tags: Russian, death penalty, Russia Kills, capital punishment, Constitutional Court, Europe, penalty ban, european convention, Valery Zorkin, Russia, Moscow, National anthems, National Anthem of Russia, Interfax, Religion Belief, Aleksandr Kolchak, Admiral, Kolchak, Drama films, Russian films, White Russians, Penology, Russian law, UN moratorium on the death penalty, Capital punishment in Russia, Human rights, Criminology, Social Issues, Law Crime, National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty, Penalty
Heavyweights of Russian modern art
Lon :: Burkina Faso | 9 days ago
Credibility Their works can be seen at the Moscow Central House of Artists. The Kandinsky Prize is one of the biggest independent national Russian awards in contemporary art. Established in 2007, in a very short while it became an independent institute of development,...
Tags: Russian, Central Russia, Burkina Faso, Lon, Bauhaus, Wassily Kandinsky, Kandinsky Prize, Entertainment Culture, Expressionism, Modern artists, Russian avant-garde, The Daily Beast, September 11 attacks, Eric Montalvo, Gerald Posner, Islamic terrorism, Guantanamo Bay attorneys, Law Crime, Masterpiece Theatre, Vladimir Solovyov, Leo Tolstoy, Solovyov, Tolstoy, Russian literature, Silent films, Anna Karenina, Interfax, Russian media, Gas explosion, Disaster Accident, Environment
Officer throws eight-year-old twins out of window
Lon :: Burkina Faso | 10 days ago
Credibility The 8-year-old siblings, the daughters of his live-in lover, luckily survived. After committing the crime, he sent a text message to their mother that read: “You may say goodbye to Dasha and Katya.” The tragedy took place in Moscow on Thursday night.
Tags: floor window, Burkina Faso, Lon, Physiology, Retroperitoneum, Dasha, Law Crime, Prosecution, Prosecutor, Criminal law, Law enforcement in the United States, Local government in the United States, Interfax, Russian media, News agency
Suicide bomber blows up police car in Chechnya
Moscow :: Russia | 2 months ago
Credibility Officials say there are fatalities, but numbers are yet to be confirmed. A suicide bomber approached a special forces vehicle parked close to a leisure centre in Mira Street and activated an explosive device.
Tags: Russian, Chechnya, suicide bomber, chechen capital, chechnya suicide, Grozny, police car, Interfax, Russia, Moscow
Suicide attack rocks Russia’s republic of Ingushetia
Moscow :: Russia | 2 months ago
Credibility The report said a car crashed into a police station near the city of Nazran, followed by a powerful explosion...The Interfax news agency cites the republic’s President, Yunus-Bek Yevkurov, as saying local police have been placed on high alert.
Tags: Russian, European, Ingushetia, suicide bomber, Interfax
Time to solve the Trans-Dniester problem
Moscow :: Russia | 4 months ago
Credibility The “overload/reset” button was at least somewhat pressed during the Obama-Tandem summit earlier this month, between the American president and the twin rulers of Russia, Dmitry Medvedev and Vladimir Putin. Scads of agreements were signed, mostly low-hanging...
Tags: Russian, Vladimir Putin, Moscow, Dmitry Medvedev, Interfax, minister vladimir, reserve funds, prime minister, U.S, increasing pensions
Helicopter crash at Afghan base kills 16
Kabul :: Afghanistan | 4 months ago
Credibility KABUL: A Russian-owned civilian helicopter crashed and burst into flames shortly after takeoff at southern Afghanistan's largest NATO base Sunday, killing 16 civilians in the latest in a string of deadly aircraft crashes in the country. A U.S. military...
Tags: helicopter crashes, Canada's Task Force Afghanistan, Afghanistan US, Kandahar Airfield, civilians helicopter, Kandahar Air Field, Nato, Interfax, Russian, southern afghanistan
Militants, police killed in southern Russia
Moscow :: Russia | 4 months ago
Credibility Russian authorities said a bomb blast has killed a policeman and three militants and a soldier have died in a shootout in the country's perilous North Caucasus region. Police in Chechnya said the blast occurred in the capital, Grozny, late Monday and...
Tags: Russian, Chechnya, Ria Novosti, RIA Novosti, Georgian, police officers, North Caucasus, Interfax, Dagestan, Medvedev
Non-stop nuclear nonsense
Moscow :: Russia | 4 months ago
Credibility The recent Russia-U.S. summit bore the first strategic arms reduction movement in seven years. This was duly dangled before the world's eyes as an achievement, something to sing and dance about; Presidents Dmitry Medvedev and Barack Obama gazing out into...
Tags: Russian Foreign Ministry, Iran, Barack Obama, arms control, U.S, United States, Moscow, Interfax, russians foreign, president barack
Flat siege in south Russian city
Moscow :: Russia | 4 months ago
Credibility An unknown number of militants are believed to be inside the apartment in a five-storey residential building, a law enforcement source told Interfax. They opened fire when security forces moved in around midnight (2000 GMT) and called on them to surrender.
Tags: Russian, North Caucasus, Interfax
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