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Luxembourg: on-shore financial center with a commitment to privacy

18:00 28/02/2014 RAPSI interviewed experts from Luxembourg’s leading independent business law firm – Arendt & Medernach. Our guests included Alain Goebel, a partner in the firm’s tax law practice, and Alexander Sokolov, Vice-Head of the firm’s Moscow Representative office.

Top ten criminal case developments of 2013

10:03 31/12/2013 As far as worldwide crime fighting goes, 2013 has been an epic year. Zeroing in on the ten most important criminal developments of the year is anything but easy. We compromised on the present list of ten cases based on a series of criteria, including global reach and concrete legal impact.

Khodorkovsky has been pardoned: what’s next?

18:59 20/12/2013 Khodorkovsky’s pardon would almost certainly make him the winner only if he rejected it immediately and publicly. The certainty is qualified by an “almost” because then he would win many scores as a public figure, but would disillusion some as a simple man of flesh and blood. Less than a day after a shocking statement made by Russian President Vladimir Putin, the former oligarch has left his cell. The pardon was like a lightening bolt.

ECHR: Poland grilled on CIA black site allegations

13:14 13/12/2013 During a speech on September 6, 2006, then US President George W. Bush addressed the nation and the families of those killed in the 9/11 terror attacks. He revealed that the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) was in fact running a secret counter-terrorism program without going into much details about it, and declared the program closed. Bush also assured the American people that torture was not used against those suspected of terrorism captured through the CIA program. He rather described the methods used to extract intel as an “alternative set of procedures”.

Five myths about Russian judicial reform

18:52 26/11/2013 Last June President Vladimir Putin suggested merging the Supreme Court and the Supreme Commercial Court and amending the Constitution to match. Since then the State Duma has received many draft laws relating to the merger and the court’s impending relocation to Saint Petersburg. However, some lawyers are vigorously speaking out against any such reform.

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Putin thanks Central Election Commission head for high-level vote organization

16:51 09/07/2020 Voting for amendments to the Russian Constitution was organized competently on the engineering and epidemiological sides, President Vladimir Putin said Thursday during the video meeting with the Central Election Commission’s head Ella Pamfilova.

Russian lawyers propose to introduce post of animal rights ombudsman

15:43 09/07/2020 Chair of Russia’s Bar Association for Human Rights, advocate Maria Arkhipova has proposed to introduce a post of the animal rights ombudsman.

Tougher criminal punishment proposed for inducement to drug use in Russia

17:11 09/07/2020 A bill stipulating criminal punishment for inducing to drug use through the Internet has been brought before the State Dum.

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