Khodorkovsky to appeal conviction to European rights court, lawyer told to leave Russia
Lawyers for jailed Russian oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky said Friday that they will appeal his conviction on tax and fraud evasion charges to the European Court of Human Rights . A...
Nuclear terrorism convention gets first signature at UN summit
Russian President Vladimir Putin was the first world leader to sign the UN Convention for the Suppression of Acts of Nuclear Terrorism , which opened for signatures Wednesday at the UN's 2005 World Summit ....
A Russian court began hearing the appeal Wednesday of former Yukos oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky , who is in jail for tax evasion, fraud and embezzlement. In May, Khodorkovsky was found guilty on...
US considers new 'networked munitions', rejects treaty banning landmines
US Pentagon officials are in the final stages of determining whether to implement a new weapons program that would mandate the production of a new era of landmines, dubbed "networked munitions", in the face of international opposition to such...
UN summit talks break down over human rights, management reform differences
Intensive talks directed at salvaging a consensus draft document for the 2005 United Nations World Summit broke down Monday over differences on human rights and management reform, according to a spokesman for the US UN mission [official...
Eight Russians previously held at Guantanamo Bay are planning to sue the US for illegally detaining them, a Russian radio station reported Thursday. Among the eight, Airat Vakhitov has been the most vocal, working with rights...
The Arbitration Appeals Court of Moscow rejected an appeal Thursday made by Russian oil company Yukos asking the court to freeze 76.79% of the shares of its former production unit Yuganskneftegaz . The...
Russia on Friday released two former Guantanamo Bay detainees from a Moscow detention center. Airat Vakhitov and Rustam Akhmyarov, who were extradited to Russia by the US in 2004, were arrested ...
Former Gitmo prisoners arrested in Russia, rights group says
Human rights group Amnesty International reported Tuesday that two men who were formerly held at the Guantanamo Bay prison camp have been detained in Russia by men claiming to be...
Russia approves resolution to withdraw from Estonian border treaty
The Russian government approved a resolution Tuesday that authorized its formal withdrawal from the Russian-Estonian border agreements, the next-to-last phase that Russia must complete in order to satisfy international legal standards on the withdrawal from a treaty. The Russian-Estonian...
