Former Russian oil executive Mikhail Khodorkovsky on Wednesday ended his two-day hunger strike after a spokesperson for Russian President Dmitry Medvedev indicated that Medvedev was familiar with a complaint Khodorkovsky made regarding...
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The Russian government on Wednesday made public documents relating to the 1940 Katyn Massacre in which 20,000 Poles were killed by the USSR. While the documents were previously available...
The Russian government on Wednesday made public documents relating to the 1940 Katyn Massacre in which 20,000 Poles were killed by the USSR. While the documents were previously available...
Russia Constitutional Court upholds ban on jury trials for terrorism suspects
Russia's Constitutional Court on Monday upheld the practice of trying terrorism cases in the absence of juries. Several Russian citizens had challenged the constitutionality of certain provisions of the country's Criminal...
Dutch Prime Minister Jan-Peter Balkenende on Monday proposed the establishment of an international tribunal in the Netherlands to try countries suspected of supplying nuclear materials to terrorists. The tribunal would be set in The Hague, already home...
US Senator predicts no approval of nuclear arms reduction treaty this year
US Senator Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn) on Sunday said that Senate approval of the so-called New START treaty will not happen this year. Speaking on a morning talk show, Alexander stated , "there's not...
US President Barack Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Thursday signed the so-called New START treaty , pledging to reduce their countries' nuclear warheads by about 30 percent. Under the terms of the...
Russia president calls for amended terrorism laws in wake of subway bombings
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Tuesday proposed amending the country's terrorism legislation in the wake of Monday's twin suicide bombing attacks on Moscow subway stations. In...
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev signed a bill Monday re-implementing a ban on human cloning in Russia, according to the Kremlin Press Service. The bill, which replaces a previous ban on human cloning that expired...
US, Russia reach nuclear non-proliferation agreement to be signed in April
The US and Russia reached an agreement Wednesday to reduce nuclear arms, marking the first such agreement between the two nuclear powers in nearly two decades. According to an anonymous Kremlin spokesperson, the two countries have come to an...
