Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov today condemned the execution of former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein's former vice president, Taha Yassin Ramadan.
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Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov has rejected charges by the Europe's top rights watchdog of continuing abuses in Chechnya.
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A European rights watchdog urged Ankara (Turkey) on Thursday to change a law that many Turks say fuels hardline nationalism and contributed to the murder of a prominent Armenian editor Hrant Dink.
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The highest-ranking European diplomat to visit Belarus in years called today for democratic change and the release of political prisoners during a speech at Belarusian State University.
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Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly President Rene van der Linden arrived in Minsk today at the start of a three-day visit, a rare trip by a senior Western official to the authoritarian state.
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Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly President Rene van den Linden will make a working visit to Moscow on January 10-12.
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