1:18 PM 3/22/2013
MIKE NOVA'S STARRED ITEMS
via Russia News Headlines - Yahoo! News on 3/22/13
MOSCOW (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 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.
via Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty on 3/21/13
Russian President Vladimir Putin has called for the BRICS group of major emerging economies to transform itself into a greater geopolitical force.
via Russia News Headlines - Yahoo! News on 3/22/13
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.
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