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US seeks justice amidst fallout of its Consulate attacks in Libya

16:02 19/09/2012 As video footage of a film aimed at discrediting Islam fanned the flames of anti-American sentiment throughout the Middle East and North Africa last week, protesters stormed the US Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, firing on security personnel and setting its main building ablaze. Four US officials, including Ambassador Christopher Stevens, were killed in the rampage.

Profile: disgraced lawmaker Gennady Gudkov

17:17 17/09/2012 In August, the Investigative Committee launched an investigation into Gudkov’s business dealings based on allegations that he had directly engaged in commercial activities, which is prohibited under Russian law by virtue of his political position. The United Russia-dominated parliament ousted Gudkov in a formal hearing on September 14.

Russia’s opposition protests chronology

18:40 14/09/2012 As Moscow braces for Saturday’s March of Millions, the latest in a series of mass opposition protests that have taken Russia by storm over the past six months, RAPSI would like to take a look back at the roots and development of the opposition’s quest toward reforms.

Problems with trial by jury in Russia

12:51 11/09/2012 A bill which aims to reduce the power and scope of juries has failed to receive adequate government support, according to the official conclusions on the draft law published on the State Duma website. The argument draws attention to the fact that trial by jury is the most effective way of ensuring the adversarial principle is adhered to in our justice system.

Louboutin v. YSL: in the battle for the red-lacquered sole, everyone wins

10:25 08/09/2012 Louboutin’s telltale red lacquered soles are entitled to trademark protection, so long as that protection extends only to contrasting red soles, and not to monochromatic designs. In so deciding, a panel of US federal judges for the Manhattan-based Second Circuit Court of Appeals reversed in part a lower court decision which had centered on the theory that within the fashion industry a single color can never serve as a trademark.

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One more case opened over Nazi photo on Immortal Regiment website

13:03 04/08/2020 Investigation was launched into a 28-year resident of Russia’s Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), who had allegedly published a photo of Adolf Hitler on the website of the Immortal Regiment movement.

Russia’s Children Ombudsman backs SMA cure to be put on essential drugs list

14:16 04/08/2020 The Russian Children’s Rights Commissioner Anna Kuznetsova believes that the adding of Spinraza medication to the Governmental list of vital and essential drugs is to become an important step in treatment of children suffering from spinal muscular atrophy (SMA).

Moscow court to proceed with blogger’s $3K copyright abuse claim against Navalny in fall

11:36 04/08/2020 The Lyublinsky District Court of Moscow has scheduled a 230,000-ruble ($3,300) claim filed by blogger Alexey Zhirukhin against Alexey Navalny over allegedly illegal use of a photo for September 8.

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