WASHINGTON — U.S. State Department officials have urged Congress to repeal the Cold War-era Jackson-Vanik Amendment, trade legislation that has long been used to pressure Russia on human rights issues, arguing that the law is hurting the U.S. economy and that Washington can make its views known in other ways. In doing so, the officials tiptoed around [...]
Tag: Death
December 16, 2011
December 8, 2011
Magnitsky’s case reopened to allow relatives his rehabilitation
Investigators have reopened a probe into late Sergei Magnitsky, a Hermitage Capital auditor, so that his family could use the right for his rehabilitation to clear him of tax evasion charges, a senior investigator said on Thursday. “The investigation deadline has been extended not to collect more evidence but to allow Magnitsky’s relatives to use [...]
December 8, 2011
Russia: New Book Explores Consequences Of Hiding From History
Dusty and streaked with dirt, an enormous bust of Vladimir Lenin, finished only from the nose up, sits in a desolate courtyard. Its eyes seem to have risen from the ground itself, peering at all who pass by. Taken in 1992, just months after the collapse of the Soviet Union, this is the photograph that [...]
December 3, 2011
A Friend’s Film Tribute To Anna Politkovskaya Premieres In Moscow
WASHINGTON — The telephone rang at the end of an excruciating day of pain and sorrow. Renowned documentary filmmaker Marina Goldovskaya had spent October 7, 2006 trying to come to terms with the death of her friend, Russian investigative journalist Anna Politkovskaya, who had been shot in the foyer of her apartment building in Moscow [...]
December 2, 2011
Russia may open case against man cleared of Russian toddler death
Russia’s Investigation Committee has every reason to start a criminal case against a U.S. resident whom a U.S. court cleared of suspicion of killing his Russian adoptive son, Russian Children’s Ombudsman Pavel Astakhov said on Friday. The boy, Isaac Dykstra, was born in Russia’s Krasnoyarsk Region in 2003 and was adopted by 35-year-old Brian and [...]
November 30, 2011
Historama, November 29
A young partisan’s tragic end and difficulties in Russian spelling are in the spotlight of tonight’s Historama. Nazis torture young Soviet partisan to death On this day in 1941, an 18-year-old partisan girl named Zoya Kosmodemyanskya was tortured and hung by the Nazis. Read more about Zoya on Russiapedia The invaders came within 60 kilometers [...]
November 30, 2011
Jailed Russian Attorney May Have Been Beaten Before His Death
MOSCOW — Human rights activists say a whistle-blowing attorney for a financial services company in Russia may have been beaten by prison guards before he died two years ago, RFE/RL’s Russian Service reports. Sergei Magnitsky, 37, was an attorney for Hermitage Capital Management who died in pretrial detention near Moscow in November 2009. Officials said [...]
November 30, 2011
Report: Capital Lawyer Beaten to Death
Report: Capital Lawyer Beaten to Death By Natalya Krainova The St. Petersburg Times Published: November 30, 2011 (Issue # 1685) ALEXANDER ZEMLIANICHENKO / AP Natalya Magnitskaya holds a picture of her son, who was beaten and died in jail. MOSCOW — New evidence released Monday added weight to suspicions that Hermitage Capital lawyer Sergei Magnitsky was [...]
November 29, 2011
Being Stalin’s daughter
To his many detractors, Joseph Stalin was a monster on an epic scale who sent millions of “class enemies” to their graves. To the considerably smaller band of his enduring admirers, he was the man who saved the world from the far worse fate of Nazi tyranny. And then there was Svetlana. For her, his [...]
November 29, 2011
Svetlana Alliluyeva, daughter of Joseph Stalin, passed away…
Svetlana Alliluyeva, the daughter of Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin, passed away in the United States at the age of 85. She was said to have died of colon cancer in Richland, Wisconsin, on November 22, but the death was announced only on Monday… The only daughter of the Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, she was born [...]
November 29, 2011
Russian lawyer Magnitsky ‘tortured, beaten to death’ – report
The country’s presidential human rights council says police torture could have led to the death of a Russian lawyer, who was imprisoned at the time. This comes after the Hermitage Capital Management investment fund Magnitsky worked for sent the council a 100-page report based on official documents, court materials, and public statements. “The documents we [...]
November 29, 2011
Main news of November 28
WORLD * A search and rescue operation launched off the coast of north Wales after a cargo vessel with Russian sailors on board sank in the Irish Sea has ended in failure * Syria is ready to accept Russia’s role as intermediary in the settlement of the current political crisis in the country, Syrian Foreign [...]
November 29, 2011
Jailed Russian Attorney May Have Been ‘Beaten’ Before His Death
MOSCOW — Human rights activists say a whistle-blowing attorney for a financial services company in Russia may have been beaten by prison guards before he died two years ago, RFE/RL’s Russian Service reports. Sergei Magnitsky, 37, was an attorney for Hermitage Capital Management who died in pretrial detention near Moscow in November 2009. Officials said [...]
November 29, 2011
Stalin’s daughter Svetlana passes away in U.S. at age of 85
Svetlana Alliluyeva, the daughter of Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin, passed away in the United States at the age of 85, the New York Times reported on Monday. The newspaper reported that she died of a colon cancer in Richland, Wisconsin, on November 22, but the authorities announced the news of her death only on Monday. [...]