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Informal CIS Summit Opens in Kremlin

Informal CIS Summit Opens in Kremlin

The leaders of 11 former Soviet republics have begun their informal summit in the Kremlin.

Anti-Putin activists in their camp in downtown Moscow

Russian Police Order Anti-Putin Activists to Leave Camp

Police ordered anti-Putin activists on Tuesday to abandon the downtown Moscow camp they have been occupying for almost a week.

Ukrainian ex-Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko

Tymoshenko Refuses Medical Treatment over 'Media Leaks’

Ukrainian ex-Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, who is serving a seven-year jail term over her role in the signing of a 2009 gas deal with Russia, has refused to continue medial treatment for spinal disk herniation, Ukrainian Deputy Health Minister Alexander Tolstanov said on Tuesday.

Dubbed the Butcher of the Balkans, Mladic, 70, has been charged with 11 counts of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity

Ex-Bosnian Serb General Mladic Goes on Trial

The long-awaited trial of the former Bosnian Serb army chief Ratko Mladic opens on Wednesday at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in The Hague

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