Sunday, March 7, 2021
Sign-In
|
Sign-Up
|
Contact Us
|
Bookmark
Home
News
Articles
Forum
Search
Directory
Blog
Accounts
Business
|
Politics
|
Technology
|
Entertainment
|
Sport
|
Other
|
All Published News
|
Russia will be a third party at the European Court of Human Rights hearings on the Vasily Kononov vs. Latvia lawsuit
Russia will be a third party at the European Court of Human Rights hearings on the Vasily Kononov vs. Latvia lawsuit, a source at the presidential press service told Itar-Tass on Sunday. Russian representative to the European Court of Human Rights Pavel Laptev has submitted a memorandum to the effect. He also suggested prioritizing the case because of the elderly age of Kononov, who was born in 1923. The memorandum was posted by the newspaper Rossiiskaya Gazeta. Kononov is a citizen of Russia and a WW2 veteran. Latvian prosecutors have accused the former guerrilla of war crimes, including a punitive operation at the village of Malye Baty, where nine alleged civilians were killed. Kononov said that the civilians were accomplices to the Nazi. The Riga court sentenced the former guerrilla to six years in prison, but the Supreme Court released him and ordered a new investigation in April 2001. The hearings resumed in September 2001, and the public prosecutor demanded 12 years in custody for Kononov. The Latvian Supreme Court pronounced Kononov guilty of war crimes in 2004, but he was released in the courtroom for having served the 20-month sentence. Last April Kononov filed a lawsuit at the European Court of Human Rights. He wants full acquittal.
Related News
Friday is a day of mourning in Russia and Armenia for the 113 passengers
Russia's chief doctor has banned imports of Georgia's famous and popular sparkling mineral water Borjomi
Chukotka court is considering a cassation by Karl Bushby of Britain and Dimitri Kieffer of the U.S
About 10% of the wreckage of an Armenian Airbus that crashed off Russia's Black Sea coast two days ago killing 113 people has been recovered
Police have detained one of the killers of the mayor of Dzerzhinsky
Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko signed a decree Friday appointing a new cabinet
American woman may become the first female space tourist
The Russian Prosecutor-General’s Office was carrying out a series of document seizures and searches in the building of the Federal Customs Service on Friday
Yulia Tymoshenko said Friday she was convinced that a three-way parliamentary coalition was the only way forward for the country
42 bodies of victims killed in the plane crash near Sochi have been identified
The president of NATO's Parliamentary Assembly said Friday he was deeply concerned about bans imposed by Russia on imports of Georgian goods
Moscow jury Friday acquitted all three defendants in the case of Paul Klebnikov
Fifty-one bodies have been recovered at the site of an air crash off Russia's Black Sea coast
The French experts have begun the search for the flight recorders of the Armenian Airbus A-320
The active phase of the Russian-Japanese coast guards’ exercise has begun outside Vladivostok
Agents of the Federal Security Service in Chechnya jointly with the local prosecutors have exposed persons engaging in trafficking of newborns
Vladimir Putin has ordered the Prosecutor General's Office to do everything possible in a short term to find out the cause of the crash of the Armenian airliner above the Black Sea
The UN Security Council should avoid threatening the use of force to solve a long-running crisis around Iran's controversial nuclear program
Russia and Armenia have declared Friday, May 5, as a day of mourning for the victims of the A-320 airliner’s crash
Experts from Russia and Ukraine are meeting Thursday to discuss a Russian naval base in Ukraine
Apr
May 2006
Jun
Mo
Tu
We
Th
Fr
Sa
Su
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
1
2
3
4