US, UK, France circulate draft Security Council resolution on Iran
Russia and China have expressed doubts about a draft UN Security Council resolution introduced Wednesday by France, Britain, and the United States. The resolution, invoking Chapter 7 of the UN Charter , mandates that Iran abandon uranium enrichment...
Annual Report of the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom, May 3, 2006 . Read...
US religious freedom commission concerned about former Soviet republics
The US government Commission on International Religious Freedom (CIRF) on Wednesday called for increased action to combat decreasing religious freedom in former Soviet republics Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan and for more monitoring of Belarus and...
The Moscow City Court has denied the appeal of former Yukos CEO Mikhail Khodorkovsky , saying it could find no grounds to reconsider Khodorkovsky's eight-year prison sentence . Khodorkovsky's lawyers have...
Europe envoys consider mandatory UN resolution on Iran nuclear program
European and US envoys meeting in Paris Tuesday discussed a new UN Security Council resolution that would invoke Chapter 7 of the UN Charter in another effort to get Iran to stop uranium enrichment. The Council...
UN Security Council resolution recognizes international duty to protect civilians
The UN Security Council Friday passed a wide-ranging resolution on duties to civilians in armed conflict that included a landmark affirmation of an international responsibility to protect in the face of war crimes, genocide and ethic cleansing when...
International brief ~ Iran could face mandatory UN resolution on nuclear compliance
Leading Tuesday's international brief, Iran could be the target of a new UN Security Council resolution mandating compliance with an International Atomic Energy Agency order that Iran cease production of enriched uranium . US,...
Poles filing ECHR complaint against Russia for 1940 massacre of officers
Relatives of Polish victims of the 1940 Katyn massacre are planning to file a complaint against Russia with the European Court of Human Rights to compel the government to disclose information about the killings perpetrated...
Federal prosecutor says US trial of former Russian nuclear minister 'pointless'
A US federal prosecutor said Friday that proceeding with a US trial of former Russian nuclear energy minister Yevgeny Adamov on charges of fraud, money laundering, and tax evasion for diverting to his own...
A lawsuit filed by the Russian Justice Ministry's Federal Registration Service against the Union of Soldiers' Mothers Committees , a local NGO representing the rights of soldiers, was dropped Wednesday after the group publicized...
