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Ukraine's Justice Minister Serhiy Holovatiy Monday appealed a Friday court ruling that reinstated Svyatoslav Piskun as Ukraine's prosecutor general. Piskun was fired by President Viktor Yushchenko , allegedly for investigating the finances of Yushchenko's wife [JURIST...

A district court in Kiev Friday reinstated Svyatoslav Piskun as Ukraine's prosecutor general after Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko dismissed him last month. Piskun accused the president of terminating him because he began an investigation into...

Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi on Wednesday said treason charges would be leveled against the leaders of violent protests that left 42 dead following a confrontation with police last week. Meles called the protests an "Orange...

Recently fired Ukrainian Prosecutor General Svyatoslav Piskun is claiming his termination last month was a direct result of an investigation he launched into the expenditures of the wife of Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko . Piskun was looking into...

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...

A declassified intergovernmental report obtained by the British newspaper The Independent says that Britain has one of the poorest human rights records in Europe, and that the UK is under investigation for non-compliance with European rights standards. The report,...

Switzerland has decided to extradite Russia's former nuclear minister to the US to face conspiracy, money laundering, and tax evasion charges, an official from the Switzerland Justice Ministry said Monday. The Russian government has been fighting Yevgeny...

A commission investigating the murder of journalist Heorhiy Gongadze five years ago reported their findings Wednesday, concluding that the slaying was instigated by former Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma and the current speaker of the Ukrainian...

The Ukrainian Constitutional Court Tuesday approved by a 10-4 margin a draft law that would alter the country's constitution by limiting presidential authority while strengthening parliamentary control. The measure, to take effective on January 1, 2006,...

Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko sacked his cabinet Thursday and accepted the resignation of his national security chief in the face of accusations of corruption only eight months after he came into office on pledges to...