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share Print The U.S. Embassy in Moscow will temporarily resume consular services following the Russian governments move to postpone a ban on employing foreign nationals. "Consequently, through July 16, U.S. Embassy Moscow will temporarily resume routine U.S. citizen services, including passport services, Consular Reports of Birth Abroad, and limited notarial services," the U.S. Embassy in the Russian capital said in a statement on May 14, adding that it "will also provide immigrant visa proces...

Ukrainian investigators have searched the house of Oleksandr Tupytskiy, the former chairman of the Constitutional Court, amid a battle with President Volodymyr Zelenskiy over control of the country's highest court.

When it comes to plans for a fine spring day, most people wouldn’t ask for more. On Saturday, May 22, two such opportunities will be available in Janesville. During the day, Downtown Janesville Inc. will host its first wine walk of the year. At night, HealthNet of Rock County presents its annual Pairings That Please fundraiser. The wine walk, which mirrors a fall event planned Oct. 16, kicks off at noon for VIPs and at 1 p.m. for general admission ticket-holders. Registered participants ca...

share Print The Ukrainian Prosecutor-Generals Office has asked a Kyiv court to set bail at more than 300 million hryvnyas ($10.8 million) for Kremlin-friendly tycoon and politician Viktor Medvedchuk, who along with another pro-Russian lawmaker is under suspicion of treason. The office made the request on May 13, hours before a session of the Pechera district court, where the judge is expected to decide on any pretrial restrictions for Medvedchuk. Medvedchuk, who has a close personal relationshi...

Turkmen Authorities Slammed For Threatening Relatives Of Exiled Dissidents May 13, 2021 08:44 GMT Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov has carefully constructed a personality cult to himself in the country. Share share Print Four leading human rights groups have criticized the authoritarian leadership of Turkmenistan for "threatening" the relatives of dissidents living abroad. In a joint statement on May 13, Human Rights Watch (HRW), the Turkmen Initiative for Human Rights (TIHR), Int...

share Print A jailed Iranian womens right activist who has campaigned against the countrys strict Islamic dress code has reportedly gone on a hunger strike to protest against the imprisonment of her mother. The U.S.-based Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), which covers news in Iran, reported that 21-year-old Saba Kord Afshari had stopped eating since May 8. It said that Kord Afshari, who is serving a 7 1/2-year sentence in Tehrans Qarchak prison for women, suffered stomach bleeding se...

A Russian court has cut the jail term of opposition politician and former Yekaterinburg Mayor Yevgeny Roizman from nine days to one day after he appealed the ruling against him for his online posts about a January 31 rally to support jailed opposition politician Aleksei Navalny.

Iran Urged To Stop Jailing, Harassing Kurdish Journalists May 13, 2021 09:28 GMT Share share Print The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) is urging Iran to stop its imprisonment and harassment of Kurdish journalists amid what human rights groups have denounced as a crackdown on members of the minority group. In a statement late on May 12, the New York-based media-freedom watchdog cited news reports and sources familiar with the cases as saying that Iranian authorities had arrested at least...

share Print KHABAROVSK, Russia -- A court in Siberia has sentenced an Orthodox priest to 25 days in jail for taking part in an unsanctioned rally to support jailed opposition politician Aleksei Navalny in April. Journalist Tatyana Khlestunova told RFE/RL that a court in the Far Eastern city of Khabarovsk sentenced Andrei Vinarsky on May 13. Vinarsky has already been sentenced twice in recent months for taking part in protests. He was given three days and then 20 days in jail, and fined for tak...

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