Search Results for: 2014-03-07

European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) held Tuesday that Russia discriminated against a teacher when she was fired after posting pictures that indicated her sexual orientation. In the case of A.K. v. Russia, A.K, the applicant, was a teacher in a state school in Russia. In November 2014, a Russian NGO collected on social media [...]

UK Secretary of State for Defence Grant Shapps confirmed Tuesday that a cybersecurity incident had taken place involving the UK Armed Forces payment network, in an oral statement before the House of Commons. Shapps said the Ministry of Defence (MoD) had identified a security breach in the network that involved the leaks of data of [...]

Renowned Russian scientist Alexander Kuranov received a seven-year sentence in a high-security prison on Thursday for state treason, according to the Head of the United Press Service of the Courts of St. Petersburg. Kuranov, who formerly headed a state research institute in St. Petersburg overseeing the Ayaks hypersonic aircraft program, faced arrest in 2021 at the age [...]

The International Court of Justice (ICJ) found Wednesday that Russia failed to investigate Ukrainian claims that Russians were financing terrorism in Ukraine, in violation of Russia’s obligations under Article 9 of the International Convention for the Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism (ICSFT). The ruling’s press release states that the ICJ otherwise rejected requests by [...]

The exchange of information is a key driver of today’s digital economy. International trade cannot be performed without business owners’ ability to transfer data across national borders, and multinational enterprises’ (MNE) internal operation relies on the ability to move data among countries where they have business presence. Accordingly, data has come to the center of [...]

The Council of the European Union (EU) announced new sanctions imposed on the company PJSC Alrosa and its CEO Pavel Alekseevich Marinychev on Wednesday. The EU Council claimed that the sanctions imposed represent the unwavering support for Ukraine’s independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity. The sanction also serves as the Council’s resolute condemnation of Russia’s war [...]

Russia’s Foreign Minister, Sergey Lavrov, said on Sunday in an interview with the Russian state-owned RIA news agency that the Russian courts have issued long-term prison sentences for more than 200 members of Ukrainian armed groups for alleged crimes. Addressing an inquiry into the alleged crimes of Ukraine, Lavrov informed the news agency that Russian [...]

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) heard oral arguments on Wednesday in a case concerning potential human rights violations committed by Russia via its occupation of Crimea. Though Russia is a party to the case of Ukraine v. Russia (re Crimea), no Russian representative was present at the Wednesday arguments since Russia left the [...]

US District Court Judge Jerry Pappert limited the liability of opioid distributor Cencora (previously known as Amerisourcebergen) on Monday in the case US v. Cencora, which is a case alleging the company failed to report thousands of suspicious opioid prescriptions, fueling the opioid epidemic. The government will now only be able to prosecute the company [...]

Sexual assault in the US Armed Forces is a very real and prescient issue for all service members. In April 2023, the US Department of Defense (DoD) reported that in 2022 there had been “a roughly 1% increase in overall reports of sexual assaults” with all the service branches having seen an increase in reported [...]