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29/11/2016
Published by Nikita Lomakin at 29/11/2016
An international organisation – the International Memorial – was included in the Russian list of “organisations performing the functions of foreign agents” for the […]
29/11/2016
Published by Daria Litvinova at 29/11/2016
New rosters of Public Monitoring Commissions (PMC), Russia’s only independent prison watchdog, were released on 21 October1Public Monitoring Commissions roster, published on the website […]
29/11/2016
Published by Alisa Ivanitskaya at 29/11/2016
In July, the Bundestag, lower house of the German Parliament, voted for amendments of the country’s criminal law,1The Law Amending the Criminal Code Improves […]
29/11/2016
Published by Daria Litvinova at 29/11/2016
This year Austria and Denmark have accommodated half as many refugees as in 2015. Moreover, the two countries seem to have made accepting as […]
27/11/2016
Published by Evgeny Berg at 27/11/2016
The so-called ‘Yarovaya package’, containing a series of legislative amendments ostensibly designed to combat terrorism, is perhaps the most dramatic development in Russian legislation […]
27/11/2016
Published by Daria Litvinova at 27/11/2016
Pressured by the European Court of Human Rights, Italian authorities have adopted a law that allows same-sex couples to register civil unions. However, there […]
26/11/2016
Published by Alisa Ivanitskaya at 26/11/2016
For the first time, the Russian law has recognised a separate category of ‘connected persons’ and the fact that someone exposed to violence at […]
24/11/2016
Published by Birgit Laubach at 24/11/2016
The legal requirements of the Second Asylum Seekers Package came into force in Germany on 17 March 2016. This legislation brought with it serious […]
24/11/2016
Published by Maxim Dranzhevsky at 24/11/2016
No longer just a trend, legal clinics are now perceived as an essential part of the educational process in law schools; in addition, legal […]
24/11/2016
Published by Legal Dialogue at 24/11/2016
The international Symposium “Domestic Law in a Global Upswing? The Strained Relationship between International and Domestic Law” was held on 30-31 May 2016 in […]
24/11/2016
Published by Anastasia Chukovskaya at 24/11/2016
In an interview for the Legal Dialogue, Márta Pardavi, co-chair of the Hungarian Helsinki Committee, talks about the shrinking civil space in Hungary as […]
19/11/2016
Published by Daria Litvinova at 19/11/2016
A legislative initiative1Draft of the bill on the website of Ordo Iuris conservative organization: http://www.ordoiuris.pl/pliki/dokumenty/stop_aborcji_2016.pdf introduced to the Polish Parliament by several pro-life organisations2Conservative advocacy […]