Former Yukos manager gets 14-year prison sentence for embezzlement
Alexei Kurtsin, former manager at Yukos-Moskva - the financial and management center for Russian oil company Yukos , was convicted on Thursday of embezzling and laundering funds and sentenced to 14 years in maximum-security prison. Kurtsin's sentence...
UPDATE ~ UN Security Council delays US push to consider Myanmar
The UN Security Council on Wednesday delayed a US attempt to bring Myanmar before the council over what the US described as a deteriorating political and human rights situation. US Ambassador John Bolton ...
US Ambassador to the UN John Bolton has requested that the UN Security Council put Myanmar on the council's agenda for the first time, alleging that Myanmar's military rulers are destroying villages, targeting...
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)...
IAEA to pursue Russian compromise on Iran instead of Council referral
Members of the UN's International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) meeting in Vienna agreed Thursday to pursue a Russian compromise proposal rather than report Tehran to the UN Security Council for its nuclear...
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...
Russian prison officials denying access to Khodorkovsky lawyers
Prison officials at Russia's Krasnokamensk penitentiary, which is holding jailed oil tycoon Mikhail B. Khodorkovsky , is deliberately hampering the work of his defense lawyers, according to a statement Tuesday on Khodorkovsky's defense website....
Ex-UN human rights chief says US record on detainees weakening influence on rights
Former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Mary Robinson said in an interview with Reuters reported Monday that the US has lost international influence due to its position on the Iraq war and the its record on...
IAEA not referring Iran to UN Security Council for nuclear program
Anonymous officials revealed Monday that a US-European coalition has backed down from earlier threats to refer Iran to the UN Security Council to account for its allegedly unsafe nuclear program. The officials say the...
Russian authorities said Monday that two Chechens accused of murdering the editor of the Russian version of Forbes, American Paul Klebnikov, in July 2004 will soon face trial, in a statement published on the website of the...
