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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...

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...

Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered that possible amendments to a bill regulating non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in the country be drafted within the next five days. The NGO proposal, approved by the Duma in November ,...

Russian President Valdimir Putin has said he will consider amendments to a bill overwhelmingly approved by the lower house of the Russian parliament Wednesday that would greatly increase state control over non-governmental organizations (NGOs)...

The Russian Duma , the lower house of parliament, has approved a bill that would greatly increase state control over non-governmental organizations (NGOs) by requiring them to register with a state commission. The law, passed Wednesday by 370...

Jailed Russian oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky issued a statement on his defense website Thursday criticizing the Russian government and vowing to keep his case in the news: hoping that...

JURIST Special Guest Columnist Robert Amsterdam, international defense counsel for Russian billionaire and former Yukos CEO Mikhail Khodorkovsky, recently imprisoned for tax fraud after a long and politically-controversial trial, says his client's case is a call to the West to...

Amnesty International and Russia's Memorial Human Rights Center Friday accused Russian authorities of arbitrary and prolonged detentions of civilians, torture, and forced confessions . Amnesty International has released a new report...

Russian President Vladimir Putin called Thursday for collective international action to defeat terrorism as he addressed world leaders at the ongoing 2005 World Summit on UN reform . Putin urged the adoption of...

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 ....