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Roman Popkov is escorted into the defendants' cage before a session at a court in Moscow in March 2008.

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On Oct. 13, Russian lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, imprisoned on tax evasion charges, told Russian Interior Ministry investigators that he was being denied medical care and subjected to "inhumane and humiliating conditions" in Moscow's notorious Butyrka jail.

China on Friday opened a consulate-general in Irkutsk, which the Chinese ambassador to Russia said would inject new impetus into China-Russia cooperation at a regional level.

A total of 68 journalists were killed worldwide in 2009, the highest annual toll ever recorded, the Committee to Protect Journalists has said.

COPENHAGEN, 16 December 2009 - Rich donor countries are recovering from one of the worst economic crises in nearly a century and do not have "another large pocket" to provide the kind of money developing countries need for adapting to climate change, said John Holmes, UN Emergency Relief Coordinator on the sidelines of the UN talks in Copenhagen.

WHO has published Pandemic 2009 - update 78 . Excerpt: In the temperate zone* of the northern hemisphere, pandemic influenza activity has passed its peak in North America and in parts of western, northern, and eastern Europe, but activity continues to increase in parts of central and southeastern Europe, as well as in south and east Asia.

Baikal: the very name fills Russian hearts with awe. And it is starting to attract pioneering tourists looking for an extreme wilderness experience With savage winds whistling off the Angara River and a temperature nudging minus 40, Irkutsk at the dog end of winter is not a hard city to want to leave.

In May last year, the Edmonton Journal dubbed Shane Broesky "Edmonton's most eligible bachelor" after he had been voted one of Canada's top singles on Lavalife, an online dating service.

Talks between Tehran and the West were stalled for months over the question of uranium enrichment: Iran was allowed to do this under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty but forbidden to do so by UN Security Council resolutions.

Via EuroFlu, published by WHO's European Region: Bulletin Review for Week 48 Excerpt: Nine countries reported increases in influenza-like illness and/or acute respiratory infection consultations .

On Thursday, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin appeared in his eighth annual televised seance with the Russian public.

Vladimir Putin hit out at the tasteless extravagance of Russia's "nouveaux riches" on Thursday in a marathon question and answer session on state television designed to bolster his already strong popularity ratings.

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Thursday said Russia's new rich have a problem spending their money in a tasteful way, commenting on the ostentatious spending by the small proportion of Russians who enjoy massive wealth.

I have already mentioned the train and platform traders and I reckon they must surely be a post Soviet phenomenon.

MOSCOW // In the last months of his detention in Moscow's notorious Butyrka jail, the lawyer Sergei Magnitsky repeatedly complained about the inadequate medical care he was receiving and his increasingly harsh living conditions in the facility.

Vonage, the world leader in VoIP caller technology, has launched a unique package that will enable customers to make unlimited calls to India from the UK.

Head of Hermitage investment fund demands inquiry into alleged torture of dead lawyer by Russian state Sergei Magnitsky's widow, Natalia Zharikova, grieves over her husband's coffin during his funeral at a cemetery in Moscow.

The sons of multimillionaire Telman Ismailov were two of the drivers said to have been involved in a luxury-car race in Switzerland that ended in a crash leaving an elderly German badly injured, media reported Tuesday.

A Russian prison official has conceded that the country's Federal Penitentiary Service shares some responsibility for the death this month of an outspoken lawyer in its custody, RFE/RL's Russian Service reports.