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| News  Russia Loses Gay-Rights Case A Russian gay activist has successfully sued his country for repeatedly banning gay pride parades in Moscow. More  EU Serves Warning To Ukraine Over Democracy Top EU officials and politicians have warned Ukraine its democratic record will ultimately determine how closely the country will be integrated with the European Union. More  Cuban Dissident Wins Sakharov Prize The European Parliament has awarded its prestigious Sakharov human rights prize to Cuban dissident Guillermo Farinas. More  New Moscow Mayor Confirmed Moscow's city legislature has confirmed Sergei Sobyanin, a close aide of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin as the new mayor of the Russian capital. More  Iraq Official Opposes Ethnicity Question An Iraqi official says there is a "general inclination" to not ask people about their ethnicity in the national census scheduled for December 5. More  Libel Trial Against Handicapped Russian Journalist Postponed The defamation trial of Russian journalist Mikhail Beketov has been postponed when he did not appear in court. More  Belarusian Activist Completes Sentence More  Inaugural Test For Almaty Subway The first line of the long-awaited Almaty subway has been through its inaugural test. More An alleged accomplice of a former Russian Duma deputy suspected of involvement in the killing in 1998 of politician Galina Starovoitova has been detained in St. Petersburg. More The Prosecutor-General's Office in the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv has launched an investigation into the alleged tapping of an opposition politician's telephone. More  Iran Scholar Denies Charges In Court Religious scholar Ahmad Ghabel was arrested in December on his way to the funeral of senior dissident cleric Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri, and spent six months in jail before being released on bail. He was rearrested last month in Mashhad. More Kyrgyz border officials say one shepherd was wounded and two others beaten on the Kyrgyz-Uzbek border in separate incidents this week. More  Armenia Citizens Charged In U.S. To Be Tried Abroad Armenia has confirmed that its citizens arrested in the United States last week on charges stemming from a large-scale medical-insurance fraud will be tried in the United States. More  Tatarstan Honors Visiting OIC Head Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) Secretary-General Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu has been made a foreign member of Tatarstan's Academy of Sciences. More  'Plagued' By The Census Protesters say they are against Russia's census because "it doesn't have any effect on the country's economic situation or...any other things" and merely helps the government gather information about citizens' political persuasions that will be used later to round up dissenters. More  What's in a Pole? Ivan Krastev and Mark Leonard of the European Council of Foreign Relations demand "new rules for a multipolar Europe." More |
