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09.12.2009, 14:35
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Former head of the Estonian Child Protection Committee, Kaur Hanson, has been sentenced to 15 years in prison over charges of pedophilia. Hanson pleaded guilty in court but did not comment on the sentence.
16.02.2010, 15:41
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Last Christmas an Estonian robbed a bank in the Finnish city of Turku because he had intended to wait out the hard times in a comfortable prison, informs Finnish newspaper Turun Sanomat.
16.07.2010, 20:29
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Finland rejected cooperation with Russia to protect the rights of children from mixed marriages. Russia’s children’s rights ombudsman, Pavel Astakhov, called the Finn’s decision “a serious blunder of international law.”
28.10.2010, 09:01
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French trade unions are still taking people out onto the streets, despite the pension reform they are protesting against being given the green light.
10.06.2010, 23:00
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Hungarian lawmakers have passed a bill equating Communist era crimes to the Holocaust and banned denying it under threat of imprisonment.
22.05.2010, 10:41
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Russia’s lower house has harshly condemned Europe’s Court on Human Rights verdict to uphold Latvia’s war crimes conviction of Soviet WWII veteran Vasily Kononov. The State Duma dubbed the case “purely political”.
22.07.2010, 18:34
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The UN court has ruled that Kosovo’s unilateral secession from Serbia was legal. The non-binding decision is believed to have implications for Kosovo and become a precedent for de-facto states seeking independence.
09.04.2010, 09:33
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After months of negotiations, RT has finally been allowed an interview with wartime Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, who is being tried in The Hague for mass murder during the Bosnian war of 1992-1995.
08.07.2010, 18:14
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A CNN senior editor is the latest high-ranking casualty in the virtual world of social blogging where a personally-held sentiment is becoming the ticket to an early retirement and worse.
02.09.2010, 10:00
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Russian Premier Vladimir Putin has slammed opposition rallies as “provocation” and said protesters would “get hit on the head” for taking part in banned gatherings.
Published: 13 March, 2010, 14:02
Edited: 14 March, 2010, 13:43
Preparing amendments to the law on the protection of children, Estonian civil servants have engaged in hot-tempered controversy with each other on the eternal question of the physical punishment of children.
It always puzzles me why parental corporal punishment of children gets to be characterized as