Mikhail Khodorkovsky's daughter Anastasia and lawyer Yelena Lukyanova have received a literary prize, awarded to the jailed Yukos founder for his correspondence with a Russian Booker Prize winning author.
// Jan. 14, 2010 - 00:09 GMT
The FBI issued on Thursday a warning about e-mails offering bogus online fundraising to help victims of the devastating quake in Haiti, which left thousands of people dead.
// Jan. 14, 2010 - 00:42 GMT
Lithuanian prosecutors should launch an investigation into secret CIA prisons on the country's territory without the parliamentary approval.
// Jan. 14, 2010 - 01:40 GMT
An emergencies ministry plane carrying a Russian rescue team for quake-hit Haiti took off from an airfield near Moscow on Thursday.
// Jan. 14, 2010 - 03:01 GMT
Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko has praised the “landmark” court decision which finds Bolshevik leaders guilty of genocide against Ukrainians during the 1932–1933 Holodomor famine.
// Jan. 14, 2010 - 03:39 GMT
Three officers in the Indonesian region of Aceh's religious police have been charged with the gang rape and torture of a 20-year-old woman.
// Jan. 14, 2010 - 04:41 GMT
The chief accountant for the Khabarovsk Territory traffic police is suspected of embezzling 26 million rubles ($880,000), a spokesman for prosecutors in the Far Eastern Russian region said on Thursday.
// Jan. 14, 2010 - 05:46 GMT
Three Russian emergencies ministry planes took off for Haiti on Thursday carrying rescuers, supplies and equipment including a mobile hospital to help the earthquake-stricken country.
// Jan. 14, 2010 - 06:09 GMT
The real issue is not whether the noises that Putin and Medvedev make suggest real divergence, and a potential for rivalry, but whether there is daylight at the end of the tandem. Or, to put it differently, whether they choose modernization or marginalization.
// Jan. 14, 2010 - 07:41 GMT