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RA's Daily Russia News Blast - Jan 2, 2008

robertamsterdam.com
02-Jan-2009
        

TODAY: Worries over the gas cut off, no more jury trials, an evacuation in Gaza, war games with Greece, Czechs in charge of the EU, a scandal with the Philippines, more Arctic fighting, and the Russian Navy is deployed to...

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Russia restricts jury trials

theage.com.au
02-Jan-2009 3 related
        

RUSSIAN President Dmitry Medvedev has signed a controversial law that eliminates jury trials for "crimes against the state", a measure lawyers and human rights groups fear will be the start of a dangerous exertion of Kremlin...

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Ukraine Says It's Paying for Russian Gas

businessweek.com
31-Dec-2008 1,356 related
        

The squabble with Gazprom heated up Dec. 31 when Ukraine said it began paying its back debt for gas but the Russian firm denied it got the money Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko said on Tuesday (30 January) that his...

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'Negative dynamic' for Russia economy in fourth quarter: Putin

yahoo.com
29-Dec-2008 17 related
        

MOSCOW (AFP) - Russia's economy suffered from a & quot;negative dynamic & quot; in the fourth quarter due to the global economic crisis but growth in 2008 will still be six percent, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said Monday.

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Russia Ends Jury Trials For 'Crimes Against State'

freeinternetpress.com
30-Dec-2008
        

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev paused in the last, quiet hours of a dying year to sign a controversial law that eliminates jury trials for "crimes against the state," a measure that lawyers and human rights groups fear will...

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Russia: The Crisis and The Potential For Unrest

globalvoicesonline.org
21-Dec-2008 172 related
        

In mid-October, Global Voices published a roundup of Anglophone bloggers' views on the financial crisis in Hungary, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Serbia and Ukraine. Below is another installment on the effects and the likely...

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The Finlandization of Europe

robertamsterdam.com
18-Dec-2008
        

Marcel H. Van Herpen, who heads up the Cicero Foundation, has released a new paper entitled "Russia, Georgia and the European Union: The Creeping Finlandization of Europe." As one can observe from the opening allegory in the...

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Court Upholds Fine Against Megafon for Illegal Operations in Georgia

redorbit.com
16-Dec-2008 5 related
        

Posted on: Tuesday, 16 December 2008, 11:17 CST WASHINGTON, Dec. 16 /PRNewswire/ -- The Tbilisi City Court has rejected a legal motion brought by the Russian mobile telephone carrier Megafon seeking the dismissal of a fine...

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Incorporating the Opposition

robertamsterdam.com
16-Dec-2008
        

Contract with the devil Grigory Pasko, journalist The regional congress of non-commercial (human rights and civic) organzations (NCOs) took place from 4 through 7 December in Penza. In the year 2005, the congress took place in...

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Court Upholds Fine Against Russia's Megafon

cellular-news.com
16-Dec-2008
        

A court in Tbilisi, Georgia has rejected a legal motion brought by the Russian mobile telephone carrier Megafon seeking the dismissal of a fine imposed on the company by regulatory authorities for illegal unlicensed operations...

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