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Francesco Becchetti wanted in connection with failed hydropower scheme.
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Proposed anti-gay legislation comes ahead of singer Elton John’s planned meeting with Vladimir Putin over gay rights.
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Thousands had demanded Victor Ponta’s ouster, saying culture of corruption had role in death of 32 people in nightclub blaze.
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Georgian premier accuses former president of calling for ‘anti-state and violent actions.’
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Hungary may be unable to transfer 54,000 asylum seekers to other EU states.
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Divisions within NATO could stymie demands from Russian neighbors for bigger, better weaponry.
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State Department’s budget request emphasizes concrete policy goals instead of loosely worded calls to defend rights and freedoms.
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Critics of law may have found an unlikely ally – the party of infamous nationalist Vladimir Zhirinovsky, known for his … extremist statements.
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Friend, then foe of Ceausescu regime went to prison for ordering the killing of protesters during chaotic regime change in 1989.
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Moscow says actions violated international law, while U.S. defense officials say nearby Russian ship was at fault.
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Wassyl Slipak had left a 20-year opera singing career in France to fight in eastern Ukraine.
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First time that Romania’s involvement in American torture programs has been brought before a court of law.
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Authorities deny connection to the 5 June attacks in the city of Aktobe.
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Local professional organization says over 160 journalists have left state broadcasters since new government took power.
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Tohtar Tuleshov also allegedly funded a shadowy, multinational crime syndicate whose existence is in doubt.
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Some activists say the nation doesn’t have the resources to re-socialize two men who were locked away for more than 14 years.
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The aim of the work is to discuss the demand for identifying the principle of fair elections as a legal determinant of democratic elections. It presents arguments for including this principle among the basic principles of election law, and thus for considering it as one of the fundamental legal “pillars” or the guarantees of democratic electoral process, and in a broader perspective, as one of the key principles of representative democracy or even the whole democratic
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The article discusses the issue of the right to vote as a basic political right expressed in rules and standards of international law. Right to vote as a crucial human right has been presented based on two examples, showing lack of or problematic compliance of Polish electoral law with international human rights law. As first is analyzed the question of disenfranchisement of persons being incapacitated – this is the most important dilemma for the domestic legislator. The second – implementation of the voting rights of persons held imprisonment – is more practical. For it is not enough to grant voting rights in the legal acts eg. in the constitution. It is essential to build the necessary guarantees, which allows to use it by all eligible voters. Only then we can say that right to cast a vote has an actual “human right” dimension.
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The „hacking tools” are the programs which constitute a real threat for the cyberspace. They allow the people without specialistic programming knowledge to commit crimes that previously were reserved only for a small group of people. This article presents the issue of regulation of the „hacker tools” in the Polish Penal Code of 1997. It points the question of interpretation of the term “the hacker tools” and discusses about the existing Polish legislation.
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Crisis management has a great importance: in functioning of the state apparatuses for the peace, the balance, the stability and the safety of citizens. Counteraction to natural risks and those triggered by human activity belongs to tasks to the civil service and the state apparatus forces (Police, Border Guard, Fire Service, etc.). State, as an organization, should plan how to organize and react in the moment of danger appearance.
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