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Once Kazakhstan adopts its new Criminal Procedures Code, the country's courts will be able to pass orders prohibiting or restricting approaches by the defendant to the protected.

• 16 марта 2014, 12:45

Russia has blocked three major opposition news websites as well as the popular blog of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny, the latest in a media crackdown that comes amid Moscow's standoff with the West over Ukraine.

• 14 марта 2014, 15:41

Kazakhstan Senate (Upper Chamber of Parliament) has approved the law draft on introducing amendments and additions into the country's legislation related to the operation of the Internal Affairs Bodies.

• 14 марта 2014, 14:29

The Government of Kazakhstan is considering a package of countermeasures against its off-the-books economy for 2014-2015.

• 12 марта 2014, 18:14

Kazakhstan Government has failed to force businessmen to start relying on non-cash transactions.

• 10 марта 2014, 17:10

GHG emission fines mounted so high in 2013 that Kazakhstan decided to postpone introduction of the fines and cut the fine in two.

• 07 марта 2014, 20:40

Uruguay lashed out at the United Nations, labeling the world body "old school" for its criticism of the country's world-first marijuana law.

• 06 марта 2014, 15:25

More cases of false diagnosing of orphans have been discovered in South Kazakhstan Oblast.

• 03 марта 2014, 11:59

A New Zealand prostitute has won substantial damages for sexual harassment by a brothel owner, with sex workers hailing the decision as a landmark ruling that shows the country as a world leader in protecting their rights.

• 01 марта 2014, 10:43

The US Supreme Court refused Monday to review restrictions on handguns for young people, dealing a blow to arms activists.

• 25 февраля 2014, 16:31

Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni will sign into law Monday a controversial bill that will see homosexuals jailed for life, despite international pressure.

• 25 февраля 2014, 10:28

It is the ultimate symbol of chest-thumping American patriotic pride and now the United States flag must be "100 percent made in the USA" -- at least where the Pentagon is concerned.

• 24 февраля 2014, 14:39

Kazakhstan won $3 billion in international arbitrations in 2013.

• 21 февраля 2014, 20:08

Japan's public is less enthusiastic about capital punishment than government research shows, a new study has claimed, amid an acceleration in the rate of executions under Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.

• 20 февраля 2014, 17:32

A New Zealand appeals court ruled Wednesday that police acted legally when armed officers raided Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom's Auckland mansion as part of a US-led online piracy probe.

• 19 февраля 2014, 13:19

The Lower Chamber of the Kazakhstan Parliament is considering a draft agreement on extradition of convicts to and from Italy.

• 18 февраля 2014, 19:58

The Philippine Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that a controversial cybercrime law penalising online libel is constitutional, amid claims it is intended to curb Internet freedom in one of Asia's most freewheeling democracies.

• 18 февраля 2014, 17:00

The UN's highest International Court of Justice is to hear arguments next month in a long-running genocide case that threatens to sour relations between Croatia and Serbia.

• 15 февраля 2014, 13:41

A group of gay and lesbian activists staged a Valentine's Day kissing protest in Beijing Friday aimed at highlighting Russia's controversial anti-homosexuality laws.

• 14 февраля 2014, 13:14

Belgium has become the first country to allow euthanasia for terminally ill children of all ages, after a heated debate in which critics questioned a child's ability to make the decision to die.

• 14 февраля 2014, 11:03