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28 Dec 2005, 12:13 pm
[JURIST] Monitoring group Human Rights Watch [website] Wednesday asked [press release] the G8 [backgrounder], the heads of government of the major industrial democracies, to convince Russian President Vladimir Putin not to sign a controversial bill that would create an oversight group with greatly increased control over the funding and activites of non-governmental orginizations, including the [read post]
5 Dec 2005, 2:27 am
[JURIST] Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered that possible amendments [JURIST report] to a bill regulating non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in the country be drafted within the next five days. [read post]
27 Sep 2005, 2:57 pm
[JURIST] In a televised interview Tuesday, Russian President Vladimir Putin [official website] stated he foresaw no major changes to the Russian Constitution [English translation] while he was in office. [read post]
15 Sep 2005, 8:59 am
[JURIST] Russian President Vladimir Putin [official website] called Thursday for collective international action to defeat terrorism as he addressed world leaders at the ongoing 2005 World Summit [official website] on UN reform [JURIST news archive]. [read post]
14 Sep 2005, 5:03 am
[JURIST] Russian President Vladimir Putin [official website] was the first world leader to sign the UN Convention for the Suppression of Acts of Nuclear Terrorism [PDF text], which opened for signatures Wednesday at the UN's 2005 World Summit [official website]. [read post]
14 Jul 2005, 2:15 am
[JURIST] Russian President Vladimir Putin [official website] Wednesday signed a decree [press release] handing control of the country's prisons over to the Russian Ministry of Justice [official website, in Russian]. [read post]
29 Jun 2005, 3:38 pm
[JURIST] The Russian parliament on Wednesday gave second reading approval to amendments to the country's election law that could further strengthen President Vladimir Putin's government. [read post]
29 Jun 2005, 11:02 am
[JURIST] A proposed amendment to the Russian Constitution [text in English] that would have allowed President Vladimir Putin [official website] to serve a third term [JURIST report] fell far short of approval by the State Duma on Wednesday. [read post]
27 Jun 2005, 12:26 pm
[JURIST] Russian President Vladimir Putin [official website, English version] is set to sign into a law a measure passed by both houses of the Russian parliament that will abolish the country's inheritance tax, according to reports on Monday. [read post]
25 Jun 2005, 3:01 pm
[JURIST] A bill due to be considered in the Russian state Duma next week would allow Russian President Vladimir Putin [official website] to circumvent the two-term limit on presidents set by the Russian Constitution [text in English]. [read post]
10 May 2005, 7:11 am
[JURIST] Russia and the European Union [official website] agreed to work on strengthening political and economic relations during a summit [EU press release] Tuesday, but the agreement was tempered by harsh language by Russian President Vladimir Putin [official website] on relations with the Baltic states. [read post]
25 Apr 2005, 12:40 pm
[JURIST] Russian president Vladimir Putin [official site, English version] stressed the need for a law-based society in his annual State of the Nation address on Monday, and encouraging investors to keep their money in Russia. [read post]
20 Apr 2005, 8:03 am
In an interview [transcript, in Russian] with Russian radio station Ekho Moskvy, Rice said that there needs to be an independent media and that President Vladimir Putin should not have so much personal power. [read post]
13 Apr 2005, 12:45 am
[JURIST] Russian President Vladimir Putin [official website; JURIST news archive] said Tuesday that he would not seek to amend the Russian constitution [English translation] so that he could run for a third consecutive term. [read post]
24 Feb 2005, 12:05 pm
[JURIST] AP is reporting that during a meeting [AP report] Thursday, President Bush and Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed that Iran should not be allowed to pursue nuclear weapons. 12:45 PM ET - From Russia, MosNews.com has local coverage. [read post]
21 Feb 2005, 8:01 pm
[JURIST] Leading up to this week's summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin [official website], President Bush Monday criticized the leader's continuing shift toward authoritarian rule and called for the Russian government to "renew a commitment to democracy and the rule of law. [read post]
11 Feb 2005, 5:34 am
[JURIST] Britain's Law Society [profession website] has written a letter to Russian President Vladimir Putin, calling for an independent probe into the treatment of Svetlana Bakhmina, deputy general counsel of Russian oil company Yukos [corporate website; JURIST Hot Topic news archive]. [read post]
10 Feb 2005, 4:16 am
[JURIST] Russian president Vladimir Putin [official website] welcomed an international dialogue on human rights issues Thursday during a meeting with UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour [official profile], but warned that rights issues should not be exploited for political and economic ends. [read post]
4 Feb 2005, 2:00 am
[JURIST] Former chess champion Garry Kasparov, who now works as a human rights activist, has accused Russian President Vladimir Putin [official website] of creating a puppet judiciary to persecute opposition leaders. [read post]
3 Jan 2005, 5:44 am
[JURIST] A top advisor to Russian President Vladimir Putin who publicly voiced concerns about the Russian government takeover of Yukos, free speech limitations and Russian policy towards Ukraine has been stripped of his responsibilities as Russia's envoy to the G8 industrial nations, according to a Kremlin statement issued Monday. [read post]
