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  • Nationwide religious property seizures continue 20 Aug 2008 13:54 GMT
    ... By Mushfig Bayram, Forum 18 News Service Almaty regional ... has learnt. Ninel Fokina of the Almaty Helsinki Committee told Forum 18 on 14 August ... claim that the transfer violated the Privatisation Law, ignored the fact that the transfer actually ...

  • Crusher converts confiscated trainers into fuel 20 Aug 2008 11:56 GMT
    ... its way from China to Russia via Finland. The trademark of the confiscated sports shoes ... Heroway. Adidas filed a lawsuit in the Helsinki District Court against the Lebanese Russian-based entrepreneur ... were ordered to be destroyed by the Finnish Customs. Even though Adidas won the case, ...

  • Serbia warned not to play against EU camp 20 Aug 2008 06:57 GMT
    ... EU and UN representatives signed a memorandum on 18 ... Kouchner described Belgrade's move to seize the International Court of Justice over Kosovo as "surprising", especially ... to EU membership.  The head of the Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in Serbia, Sonja Biserko ...

  • Neo-Nazism in Russia Was A Sure Sign of Things to Come in Georgia 19 Aug 2008 20:48 GMT
    ... It was Monday evening in February of 2004 when ... his supporters, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center's Intelligence Report. The Moscow Helsinki Group puts the number of skinheads in ...

  • INTERTNATIONAL WORLD EXPECTED TO CONTINUE SAFEGUARDING PEACE IN ACEH 19 Aug 2008 12:18 GMT
    ... INTERTNATIONAL WORLD EXPECTED TO CONTINUE SAFEGUARDING PEACE IN ... the Free Aceh Movement (GAM) signed in Helsinki in August 2005 could created peace after ... been made as could be seen from law No 11/2006 on the Aceh government and ...

  • Aland Islands could reject Lisbon Treaty 19 Aug 2008 07:37 GMT
    ... is being dealt with by the  's law and autonomy committees, which are set to hold ... the Alands would like to have one of Finland's votes. The islands' government would like to be able ... in the Alands is not controlled by Finnish laws, but the islands' own).  The Alands would ...

  • Securing Georgia 19 Aug 2008 04:27 GMT
    ... , Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, August 15, 2008 Thursday, ... another breakaway region, Abkhazia – violated international law and made clear this is not just ... by anger. Sarkozy, French Foreign Minister Kouchner, Finnish Foreign Minister (and OSCE Chairman) Stubb, Secretary Rice ...

  • Hungary: Defense of the Realm 18 Aug 2008 07:55 GMT
    ... Recently, however, the concept of free speech and ... protest (which is a contravention of the Helsinki Accords signed by Hungary in the 1970s) ... wrong time, can be charged under Hungarian law with providing psychological support to a riot ...

  • Lisbon treaty would have helped in Russia-Georgia crisis, says France 18 Aug 2008 07:46 GMT
    ... Skyrocketing energy prices, stepped-up arms sales and increased ... optimistic OSCE could send observers to Georgia Finnish chairman of the European security group OSCE, Alexander ... Ministry said in a statement. Swedish surveillance law may breach EU rules Sweden's new surveillance ...

  • Russia should be law-abiding 17 Aug 2008 23:31 GMT
    ... did resolve the Aaland Island dispute between Finland and Sweden (which mattered as much at ... that they be allowed self-determination from their Finnish rulers. “To concede to minorities”, the League's eminent ... In this instance the course of international law goes against Russia. Georgia should complete its ...

  • Sign far more of a distraction 17 Aug 2008 22:50 GMT
    ... LAST year, wild flower displays at the junction of ... in New York, Geneva, Manchester, London and Helsinki in my years as a lawyer, and ... that actually the majority of teenagers are law-abiding, hard-working people like these. IN A letter ...

  • Blast from the past and Russian hubris KOSOVO, Abkhazia, South Ossetia, Chechnya, the Bakassi Peninsular. All of them disputed territories but only one, the last named, a sizeable oil-rich wedge of land lying between Nigeria and C 17 Aug 2008 21:16 GMT
    ... did resolve the Aaland Island dispute between Finland and Sweden (which mattered as much at ... that they be allowed self-determination from their Finnish rulers. "To concede to minorities", the League"s eminent ... In this instance the course of international law goes against Russia. Georgia should complete its ...

  • Best reform in education? End poverty 17 Aug 2008 09:50 GMT
    ... other industrial countries outperform American schools. It advocates higher standards, more time in school and ... on test scores, among other social pathologies. Finland, South Korea, Canada, Japan and other countries ... associated with it - seems impossible. No law could persuade every couple to delay childbearing until ...

  • The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to Understanding EU Jargon 17 Aug 2008 07:18 GMT
    ... The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to Understanding EU Jargon The problem ... the EU in 2004. TAMPERE : The Finnish town of Tampere is best known in EU ... EU circles for its links with international law-enforcement. The Tampere Process, launched in 1999, is ...

  • Putin's paranoid bear sharpens its claws 17 Aug 2008 00:16 GMT
    ... Russians are again living in a dictatorship, hemmed ... industry and destroyed the independence of the law courts, Russians are again living in a ... at French, Chinese or Spanish restaurants, drink Finnish vodka and smoke American cigarettes. And those with ...


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