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Ukraine dismayed at Russia’s return to Council of Europe
Human rights watchdog votes to revive Moscow’s membership after years of estrangement …read more Source: Financial...
Austria’s top court approves US extradition of Ukrainian oligarch
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Ukraine fury as Russia gets back Council of Europe voting rights
The Ukrainian delegation walks out of the Council of Europe assembly following the decision. …read more Source:...
Austria approves US extradition of Ukrainian tycoon
Supreme court clears way for Dmytro Firtash to face trial on bribery chargesAustria’s supreme court has upheld a decision granting a request by the US to extradite the Ukrainian tycoon Dmytro Firtash on bribery charges.A US grand jury indicted Firtash in 2013, along with a member of India’s parliament and four others, on suspicion of...
Ukraine walks out of Europe human rights body as Russia returns
Delegation leaves Council of Europe assembly in protest at readmission of Russian MPsThe Ukrainian delegation at the parliamentary assembly of the Council of Europe has walked out in protest after Russian MPs were allowed to return to the human rights body five years after the annexation of Crimea.The Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy,...
Council of Europe backs Russia’s return
The parliamentary assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) agreed Tuesday to allow Russian representatives to return to the body, five years after Moscow was stripped of its voting rights over the annexation of Crimea. Russia threatened to quit PACE if it was barred from voting in Wednesday’s election of a new secretary-general to replace...
PACE votes to allow Russia to return five years after ban over Crimea annexation
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Estonian PACE representatives vote against restoring Russia voting rights
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) voted early on Tuesday to restore Russia’s voting rights, five years after suspending them following Russia’s annexation of Crimea. The Estonian delegation, consisting of MPs Eerik-Niiles Kross (Reform), Indrek Saar (SDE), and Raivo Tamm (Isamaa), all voted against....
Council of Europe restores Russia’s voting rights
Russia has received backing from the Council of Europe’s assembly to return to the body. Moscow had its voting rights suspended five years ago over the illegal annexation of the Crimean Peninsula. …read more Source: Deutsche...
In Russia’s north, a Gulag grave site, a child-abuse trial & a battle over historical Truth
In a patch of forest deep in Russia’s north lies a burial site for victims of Stalin’s Great Terror. Between 1937 and 1938, up to 9,000 gulag prisoners were brought here by night, shot in the head, and stacked atop one another inside 236 rectangular pits that had for years been concealed among the trees. Sandarmokh, as the site is...
