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Tymoshenko seeks to avoid criminal responsibility in murder case - prosecutor

Jailed former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko is seeking to avoid taking part in the trial over MP and businessman Yevhen Shcherban's murder, Prosecutor General Viktor Pshonka told journalists.

18:04 27.02.2013

Litvinenko case hearings to be partially held behind closed doors

The disclosure of the information in the inquest into former KGB officer Alexander Litvinenko's death will partially be held behind closed doors according to government's request, High Court Judge Robert Owen said on Wednesday.

17:41 27.02.2013

Former Ukrainian interior minister not to ask for pardon

Former Ukrainian Interior Minister Yuriy Lutsenko will not ask the president for a pardon, he wrote on his blog from prison on Wednesday.

16:45 27.02.2013

Claims seeking to revoke dead orphan brother's adoption left without action

The Pskov Regional Court has left without action due to a lack of evidence two claims seeking to revoke the adoption of Kirill Kuzmin, whose brother died in the US under the care of adoptive parents.

16:23 27.02.2013

Lawyer accuses investigators in Domodedovo terrorist attack of ineptitude

Lawyer Igor Trunov, who represents victims of the terrorist attack in Moscow's Domodedovo Airport in January 2011, has filed a request with the Investigative Committee to open a case against the officials who failed to find who was responsible for the violations of the airport's security procedures that led to the tragedy.

14:46 27.02.2013

Rusal Foil appeals tax ruling that led to office raid

Rusal Foil, whose Moscow office was searched in a tax evasion case on Tuesday, has appealed the ruling of the Moscow Commercial Court which upheld a decision by tax authorities to collect an additional 189.34 million rubles (over $6 million) in taxes, fines and penalties from the company.

14:13 27.02.2013

Strauss-Kahn's lawsuit to prohibit publication of his lover's book dismissed

The Tribunal de Grande Instance in Paris has dismissed a lawsuit filed by Dominique Strauss-Kahn to prohibit the publication of a book by his former lover, Marcela Iacub.

13:04 27.02.2013

Designer prohibited from using Gainsborough's Lady in Blue

The Commercial Court of the Stavropol Territory has ruled in favor of the St. Petersburg State Hermitage Museum's lawsuit against fashion designer Iya Yots, prohibiting her from using Thomas Gainsborough's Lady in Blue in her designs.

12:41 27.02.2013

Bin Ladin liquidation operation to affect WikiLeaks case

In its case against former Army intelligence analyst Bradley Manning, who stands accused of having disclosed classified information to Wikileaks, the US government told a military court Tuesday that it plans to call as a witness a Navy Seal that may have been involved in the 2011 operation that purportedly killed Osama Bin Ladin.

12:11 27.02.2013

Politkovskaya murder accomplice speaks on Forbes editor's killing

Dmitry Pavlyuchenkov, who was sentenced to 11 years for his involvement in the murder of journalist Anna Politkovskaya, has provided new information about the killings of Forbes Russia editor Paul Klebnikov in 2004 and of Alexei Sidorov, editor of a newspaper in Togliatti, a city in southern Russia, in 2003.

11:55 27.02.2013

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