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Nuclear threats and international law: a complicated relationship

17:56 10/04/2013 If North Korea makes good on its threats of nuclear warfare, international law will likely be the last thing on anyone’s mind. The nuclear sparring match presently bouncing back and forth the Pacific begs the question: can international law pass muster to the threat of nuclear warfare? In an effort to create a David that could prove formidable in the face of the nuclear giant, the UN and ICJ focused in great depth on this very issue in the direct aftermath of the Cold War.

Former top Chinese officials charged with corruption

15:41 10/04/2013 Two former high-ranking Chinese officials have been charged with corruption and abuse of power this week.

The new frontier of Russian IP law

13:22 10/04/2013 Russia’s Intellectual Property Court, which was established by presidential order on December 8, 2011, will begin hearing cases this year. The court’s chair Lyudmila Novosyolova told RAPSI’s Sergei Feklyunin about the court’s judges and the current situation in the sphere of intellectual property disputes in Russia.

The fate of Berezovsky’s estate

17:57 28/03/2013 Self-exiled Russian oligarch Boris Berezovsky left behind a tangled web of legal and financial disputes and obligations when he suddenly passed at his Surrey home last weekend. RAPSI spoke with several experts in UK estate and probate law to seek clarity on the post-mortem implications of the various facets of Berezovsky’s personal crisis under English and – surprisingly, perhaps – Russian law in the aftermath of his death.

ECHR clears Russia of most violations alleged by terrorism convicts

17:29 14/03/2013 The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) held Thursday that Russia did not violate the rights of members of an extremist Muslim organization to freedom or religion, expression, or peaceful assembly by convicting them of membership in a terrorist organization.

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No referendum required to amend Russia’s Constitution – rights advocate

17:13 17/01/2020 The renewal of the Constitution proposed by Russia’s President Vladimir Putin requires neither a referendum, nor convening of the Constitutional Assembly, a member of the Presidential Council of Human Rights Alexander Brod has stated.

Moscow court to hear case over $950 mln embezzlement in BTA Bank on January 31

15:31 17/01/2020 The Moscow Tagansky District Court is to hear a criminal case against ex-Chairman of the board of directors of Kazakh BTA Bank Mukhtar Ablyazov, charged with embezzlement of over 58 billion rubles (about $950 million) of the bank’s controlled structure.

Ex-top official of regional penal colony convicted of $300k embezzlement

16:09 17/01/2020 A court in Russia’s Saratov Region has sentenced a former head and a former chief accountant of one of the local penal colonies to 4 and 3 years in custody respectively for embezzling over 18 million budget rubles ($300,000).

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