The Kremlin’s Human Rights Council will set up a contact group with Russia’s Investigation Committee to monitor the investigation into the death of Hermitage Capital auditor Sergei Magnitsky, the council’s chairman, Mikhail Fedotov, said on Monday. “We have taken the decision to create special working groups. One of these groups will work with the Investigation [...]
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November 29, 2011
October 26, 2011
Spate Of Suspect Deaths Casts Spotlight On Moscow’s Remand Prisons
Andrei Kudoyarov, director of Moscow school No. 1308 who was accused of accepting 240,000 rubles in bribes, died of a massive heart attack in a Moscow pretrial detention jail (SIZO) on October 8. His relatives and lawyers heard the news from media reports. Official confirmation came only on October 10. The Kudoyarov case has once [...]
September 23, 2011
Putin in key speech ahead of polls
Russia’s powerful Prime Minister Vladimir Putin delivered a key speech to his loyalists on Friday amid speculation that he may seek a return to the presidency. In a wide-ranging speech, Putin moved to defend the country’s legal system, saying it is “no worse” than America’s or the UK’s. He admitted however that the system, which [...]