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...Church uses to lobby the legislature are already registered with OSE. In its defense, OSE says it wants transparency, but it’s hard to miss 3,500 people standing in front of the state Capitol. The legislature already exempts the media from these rules to protect free speech. It should do the same with churches to preserve religious freedom...
...sidesteps the issue of double jeopardy which states a person can't be tried for the same crime twice.) Politkovskaya's family and lawyers oppose a retrial, saying a guilty verdict for the alleged accomplices could end the investigation and allow those directly responsible for the murder to remain free. Meanwhile, journalists and human rights advocates can't help but note that the announcement comes little more than a week before U.S. President Barack Obama is due to visit Russia. (See pictures of Obama in Europe...
...surface of it, the Supreme Court's call for a retrial in the case of Politkovskaya's murder seems to signal that Russia is finally tackling its culture of impunity. But clouded by murky motivations and the possibility that it could leave the real culprits running free, it may actually be doing just the opposite...
...Berlin's Museum of Applied Arts, "Free Within Borders" is not so concerned with the question of whether the Mob could have existed outside the G.D.R. Instead, it celebrates the ability of a group of young people to be creative in even the most constrained of circumstances...
...Interest in the debates has been moderate, with between 35 million and 45 million viewers, or one-fourth of registered voters, per event. As with most maturing democracies, voter turnout has been dropping since Indonesia's first free elections in 2004. While still facing significant challenges, the country is more optimistic with greater freedoms than it had experienced in the past, particularly during the 32 years of authoritarian rule under Suharto, who was ousted from the presidency in 1998. The country is one of three in the region that is expected to post positive economic growth this year, and inflation...