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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.

Elucidating the CIA’s post-9/11 justice program

14:18 05/11/2013 More than a decade has passed since that sunny fall morning when four hijacked passenger planes brought the US to its knees. The coordinated attacks of September 11, 2001 killed nearly 3,000 people, obliterated New York’s Twin Towers, caused the partial collapse of the Pentagon, and unrecognizably altered the face of US national security. The attacks compelled security agencies such as the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to improvise tools with which to confront a threat unprecedented in the annals of war: worldwide, stateless, ideology-driven terrorism.

John Reynolds on the Russian trend of London litigation

10:00 07/10/2013 Quite a few cases linked in one way or another to Russia have passed through England’s courts and arbitration tribunals. As a growing number of business contracts stipulate that disputes should be governed by English law, the list continues to grow. Meanwhile, Russia has resolved to draw cases back to its own courts, aiming to tackle some of the judiciary’s more prominent issues. To learn more about this quagmire, RAPSI spoke with John Reynolds, a partner at White & Case and head of its London Litigation Department.

Irina Paliashvili: "Do not put legal business under pressure"

11:53 04/09/2013 Ukraine's legal services market is an incredibly intimate phenomenon among the former Soviet Union republics, retaining an appealing identity: with some exceptions, it has no place for foreigners, and it is dominated by motivated local legal firms. The biggest shock for the rapidly growing market was the financial crisis, which spread across Ukraine in 2008 and consequences of which are here even nowadays. As a result, the business development model had to be revised. Irina Paliashvili, President of the Ukrainian Legal Group, P.A., explained in the interview to RAPSI that the legal atmosphere has drastically changed and it is time to talk about new reality.

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Yugra bank co-owner put under house arrest in $120 mln embezzlement case

20:53 19/04/2019 Moscow’s Basmanny District Court on Friday ordered house arrest for the majority stockholder of Russia’s Yugra bank Alexey Khotin suspected of 7.5-billion-ruble (about $120 million) embezzlement until June 18.

Crimean activist sentenced to 6 years for online calls for terrorism

19:35 19/04/2019 The North Caucasus District Military Court has sentenced activist from Crimea’s Yevpatoria Yevgeny Karakashev to 6 years behind bars for calls for terrorism on VKontakte social network.

Moscow bar association president arrested, put in detention on embezzlement allegations

16:17 19/04/2019 Sergey Yuryev, the chairman of Moscow's bar association Mezhregion, was arrested as part of a case over 1-billion-ruble embezzlement (about $16 million) from the State Air Traffic Management Corporation (ATM), and placed in detention on Friday.

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