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Russia court refuses to delay Politkovskaya murder trial for further investigation

August 7, 2009 03:37:00 PM

The Moscow Military District Court on Friday rejected a petition by prosecutors to allow further investigation into the 2006 shooting death of journalist Anna Politkovskaya . The retrial of three men acquitted of...

August 5, 2009 10:11:00 AM

The Moscow Military District Court on Wednesday began the retrial of three men acquitted of involvement in the 2006 shooting death of journalist Anna Politkovskaya . The Russian Supreme Court [official website, in...

July 31, 2009 08:01:00 AM

JURIST Guest Columnist Pamela A. Jordan, an associate professor of history at the University of Saskatchewan (Canada) who writes on politics and human rights developments in Russia, says that the recent murder of Chechnya human rights activist Natalia Estemirova may...

July 23, 2009 08:44:00 AM

Russian officials announced on Wednesday that the body of Russian human rights activist Andrei Kulagin had been found in a quarry. Kulagin, the former head of rights group Spravedlivost, had been missing since May . Although officials did...

July 16, 2009 08:03:00 AM

Russian human rights activist Natalia Estemirova was kidnapped in Grozny Wednesday morning and shot to death, according to news reports. Estemirova, 50, investigated allegations of human rights violations in Chechnya for about 10 years. Estemirova's body, which...

June 26, 2009 06:31:00 AM

The Russian Supreme Court on Thursday ordered the retrial of three men acquitted of involvement in the 2006 shooting death of journalist Anna Politkovskaya . The court vacated the...

June 24, 2009 02:02:00 PM

The Council of Europe (COE) on Tuesday urged substantial reforms to correct systemic problems in the Russian legal system, including the prevalence of political prosecutions and a lack of judicial independence. A report presented by...

February 27, 2009 12:16:00 PM

Russia's Prosecutor General's Office on Friday appealed the acquittal of three Chechen men accused of involvement in the killing of Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya . The decision to appeal the ruling...

February 20, 2009 09:03:00 AM

The Moscow Military District Court on Friday acquitted three men suspected of being involved in the murder of Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya . The three men, Sergei Khadzhikurbanov and Dzhabrail and Ibragim Makhmudov, were released after a...

February 18, 2009 08:26:00 AM

A lawyer for one of the men accused in the killing of Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya alleged in his closing statements Tuesday that the prosecution's main pieces of evidence are flawed and have been...

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On May 1, 1707, the two Acts of Union went into effect, implementing the Treaty of Union and thereby uniting the Kingdom of England and Kingdom of Scotland to create the United Kingdom of Great Britain. The Union with Scotland Act was passed by the Parliament of England in 1706, and the Scottish Parliament promulgated the Union with England Act. Learn more about the Acts of Union from the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

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