| January 2012 |
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Radicals and extremists should be barred from public rallies of law-abiding citizens, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday.
A Polish court ruled on Wednesday to extradite to Russia former Moscow region deputy prosecutor Alexander Ignatenko over his alleged involvement in a multi-million dollar gambling operation.
St. Petersburg’s city legislature approved on Wednesday a bill imposing fines up to $16,700 for the promotion of homosexuality.
German fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld has branded Russian men as ugly, Greeks as corrupt and Queen Elizabeth as being a more smiley version of her grandmother Queen Victoria, in a column he wrote as guest editor-in-chief of Tuesday's edition of Metro, a global newspaper.
School children in the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk are sitting tests to identify the race of people from their photographs.
Russian Children’s Ombudsman Pavel Astakhov on Tuesday hailed the adoption by the lower house of parliament of a bill stipulating tougher penalties for pedophiles, including chemical castration.
A bill toughening penalties for pedophiles, including life sentences and chemical castration, passed the third and final reading in the State Duma on Tuesday.
A Russian immigrant in the United States who recently won a lottery that pays $1 million a year for life said on Tuesday she will have to move because of increasingly threatening requests for money from fellow Russians.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin defended the country’s immigration policy on Tuesday, saying the introduction of visas for the former Soviet republics will finally push them away out of Russia’s sphere of influence.
The wife of ousted Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, Suzanne, confessed in her memoirs about an attempt to commit suicide when she knew she would be arrested for corruption, EGYnews said on Tuesday.
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, who is running for president in the March 4 elections, will have a political scientist stand in for him in a televised debate with ultranationalist leader Vladimir Zhirinovsky on Tuesday.
Kyrgyzstan’s Prosecutor General’s Office requested a court ban on the Unification Church, the controversial religious movement founded by Korean leader Sun Myung Moon.
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said on Monday he proposed restoring direct elections of regional governors because the current system has more drawbacks than advantages.
President Dmitry Medvedev proposed on Monday that Russia could consider joining the Open Government Partnership, an international initiative designed to make government more transparent and effective.
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Monday dismissed the idea of a political amnesty because there are no political prisoners in the country.
Tens of thousands people are expected to brave the bitter cold at two major rallies in downtown Moscow on Saturday as a power play between champions of political liberalization and supporters of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin continues to unfold.

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said on Monday he will soon submit a bill to Russia’s parliament obliging state officials to declare major expenses.
Eight Turkish nationals charged in the deaths of five Russian tourists poisoned with bootleg whiskey may be sentenced to life if convicted, Turkey’s Turizm Guncel portal said.