1:18 PM 3/22/2013


Attorneys of lawyer Sergei Magnitsky sit in front of an empty defendants' cage during a court session in MoscowMOSCOW (Reuters) - A court-appointed defense lawyer tried to scuttle the posthumous trial of Russian whistleblower Sergei Magnitsky on Friday, saying the state had no right to prosecute a dead man without the consent of his family. But the judge rejected the lawyer's challenge, paving the way for a trial that is seen by President Vladimir Putin's critics as politically motivated and intended to discredit fraud accusations made by Magnitsky, who died in jail in 2009. ...

via NYT > Opinion by By RONALD S. CODDINGTON on 3/22/13
The story of Lyman Hapgood, a Boston abolitionist who gave the poet his first job in the capital.

via Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty by RFE/RL on 3/21/13
Xi Jinping travels to Moscow on his first foreign trip as China's new president.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has called for the BRICS group of major emerging economies to transform itself into a greater geopolitical force.

via NYT > Europe by By SCOTT SAYARE and STEVEN ERLANGER on 3/22/13
Former President Nicolas Sarkozy is being investigated over accusations that he abused the frailty of France’s richest woman to get money for a campaign.

MOSCOW (AP) — Russia's prime minister says Moscow will only help Cyprus out financially if the country's new money-raising measures get the backing of the European Union.

via The Moscow Times Top Stories by The Moscow Times <moscowtimes@themoscowtimes.com> on 3/21/13
President Vladimir Putin will hold his annual televised call-in show this spring, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Friday.

via The Moscow Times Top Stories by By Jonathan Earle <moscowtimes@themoscowtimes.com> on 3/21/13
There are about 118,000 orphans in Russian state care, and the number of domestic adoptions fell from 2011 to 2012, senior government officials told State Duma deputies on Friday.

via The St. Petersburg Times by By Yekaterina Kravtsova on 3/21/13
Protesters staring down OMON riot police at Bolotnaya Ploshchad on May 6.MOSCOW – A man professing to be a former government operative has said that police officials, including the former interior minister, were involved in organizing clashes at an opposition rally last year, allegations that members of the Kremlin human rights council say could be trustworthy.


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