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28.04.2009, 19:22
Driving your neighbours mad by listening to loud music can result in you being kicked out and your flat going under the hammer, which happened to a DJ in Russia’s Sverdlovsk region in the Urals.
28.12.2009, 08:34
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A year after Israel's devastating operation in Gaza, Palestinians are mourning its victims. The war claimed the lives of 1,400 Palestinians, according to human rights groups on both sides, and 13 Israelis.
17.05.2010, 18:53
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In what is seen as a politically motivated gesture, the European Court of Human Rights has delivered its verdict in the case of Vasily Kononov versus Latvia.
25.10.2010, 23:45
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Two Israeli soldiers are awaiting sentencing after being convicted of using a Palestinian child as a human shield during the Gaza war.
23.12.2009, 20:51
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Russia's Supreme Court has ruled that the 2003 arrest of former Yukos executive Platon Lebedev was illegal on procedural grounds and must be annulled. The decision will have no impact on his imprisonment, however.
15.07.2009, 14:13
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Bills approved by the Russian State Duma include increasing sentences to 20 years for the rape of children – and also harsher measures for the distributors of child pornography.
03.05.2009, 13:38
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The number of Russian policemen brought to justice over the past four years is increasing. With people scared of seeing men in uniform, human rights activists and lawmakers in Russia are calling for urgent police reform.
21.01.2010, 20:32
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Russian law has always been a complicated issue. RT has interviewed Aleksander Konovalov, Russia’s Justice Minister on widespread distrust in the country's legal system and on planned measures to improve the situation.
26.01.2010, 21:38
Controversy surrounding a luxury development in Western Moscow has reached the boiling point as residents of Rechnik settlement are protesting city hall's attempts to evict them from their homes.
28.10.2009, 09:36
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Fighting the spread of HIV/AIDS is the focus for fifty eastern European and central Asian countries who have gathered in Moscow today. In Russia, discrimination also adds to the burden of HIV-positive people.
Published: 05 October, 2009, 16:05
The Stalin era was a blow for Russia, so both external and internal issues raise concerns over using the death penalty in the country, believes Alla Glinchikova from the Institute of Globalization and Social Movements.
