Russian ombudsman Tatyana Moskalkova has addressed US President Donald Trump in a letter asking him to pardon Russian citizen Konstantin Yaroshenko, who's serving a 20-year sentence because of a DEA sting operation. Learn Extra at mysouth.su ...

An Austrian court docket has sided with Russia’s state-backed vodka maker within the battle over the Stolichnaya and Moskovskaya manufacturers, ordering the Dutch-based Spirits Worldwide B.V to pay compensation for utilizing them illegally. Learn Extra at ...

A member of the Russian Presidential Human Rights Council has visited leftist activist Sergey Udaltsov in detention and requested him to finish his starvation strike, which might solely harm his well being and profit his political ...

An MP from Russia’s nationalist-populist opposition celebration LDPR has requested the deputy PM in control of agriculture to create an company to arrange legal guidelines for the “most safety of animal rights.” Learn Extra at mysouth.su ...

The pinnacle of Russia’s jail company has ordered all penal establishments to frequently report on circumstances by which inmates are stored after a newspaper launched a video allegedly exhibiting prisoners being overwhelmed by workers. Learn ...

The Russian Presidential Human Rights Council desires to decriminalize insults that offend non secular sensibilities, in addition to narrowing authorized definitions of extremism, a enterprise information website has reported, citing council sources. Learn Extra at mysouth.su ...

RIYADH/OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada on Monday refused to again down in its protection of human rights after Saudi Arabia froze new commerce and funding and expelled the Canadian ambassador in retaliation for Ottawa’s name to free arrested Saudi civil society activists...........

Human Rights Watch has accused the Worldwide Affiliation of Athletics Federations (IAAF) of discriminating in opposition to feminine athletes after implementing a rule prohibiting girls with a excessive testosterone degree from competing. Learn Extra at mysouth.su ...

US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley has launched one other assault on the UN human rights physique, calling it a failure for itemizing such international locations as China and Cuba amongst its members. She had ...

Actor Kelsey Grammer defined why he's pro-life in an interview final week with the Occasions, calling out the abortion business as “dishonest” for utilizing the euphemism of “reproductive rights” to discuss abortion. Grammer advised the Occasions he has “as a lot respect for ladies and girls’s points as potential,” however ...