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The Federation Council , Russia's upper house of parliament, voted 152-1 Tuesday for a bill first approved by the lower house last month that greatly increases state control over non-governmental organizations (NGOs) by implementing strict registration...

Russian prosecutors leading the probe into the September 2004 Beslan school siege issued a report Monday concluding that Chechen terrorists, not Russian authorities, were to blame for the deaths of 330 people, mostly children. Another...

Russian military prosecutors said Monday that they had dropped charges against former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko , accused of offering bribes to Russian Defense Department officials while managing Ukraine's state-run gas company. The...

A court in London ruled Friday that the former Vice-President of crippled Russian oil-giant Yukos , Aleksander Temerko, currently living in Britain, cannot be extradited to Russia, saying that he would likely not receive a...

Russia's Duma , the lower house of parliament, approved on Wednesday a much-criticized bill restricting NGO activity by 376-10 on its second reading. The bill would create a government agency with broad power to monitor and...

The UN Security Council late Thursday unanimously approved a six-month extension of the probe into the February assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik al-Hariri just before the mandate of the investigatory commission currently...

Slobodan Milosevic Monday asked judges at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia to let him visit a Moscow clinic for medical examinations during the court's winter recess. Milosevic suffers from...

UN Under-Secretary-General Jan Egeland , the UN humanitarian relief coordinator, told the UN Security Council Friday not to weaken a proposed resolution on protecting civilians in war zones, reminding delegations of the 26 million people forced...

The Inuit Circumpolar Conference (ICC) , representing Inuit indigenous peoples in Alaska, Canada, Greenland and Russia, has filed a petition with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) accusing the US government...

A Russian bill designed to increase state control over non-governmental organizations (NGOs) by requiring them to register with a governmental commission has draw sharp criticism from US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice as troubling...