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A Pakistani court has sentenced former prime minister Imran Khan and his wife Bushra to 14 years in prison in a corruption case involving the sale of government property, Reuters reports. Khan is also prohibited from engaging in political activities for 10 years. Bushra Khan has been taken into custody.

A day earlier, Khan was sentenced to 10 years in prison on charges of disclosing state secrets. Accused along with Khan in this case was former Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi, who also received a ten-year prison sentence.

Khan is one of the most influential politicians in Pakistan, the leader of the opposition Justice Movement party. His associates point out that the verdicts were handed down a week before the general elections, they believe that violations were committed during the investigation and trial and promise that the verdict will be appealed.

Imran Khan was removed as Prime Minister of Pakistan in April 2022. Since then, dozens of criminal charges have been brought against him, including terrorism. Khan’s supporters see the persecution as political.

In May 2023, when Khan was arrested for failing to appear in court, his supporters staged mass protests, during which at least nine people were killed and about 300 were injured. Khan was released amid protests.

In August 2023, the court nevertheless imposed a three-year prison sentence on Khan on corruption charges. The charges were also related to the sale of valuables from the state treasury, but at that time the wife of the former prime minister did not appear in the case. Khan denied the charges.

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2024-01-31 07:20:00

Two lawsuits were filed in the courts of Moscow and St. Petersburg due to the “naked” party. The amount of claims for each of them is one billion rubles, RIA Novosti reports.

In Moscow, a group of citizens led by producer Alexander Inshakov filed a class action against TV presenter Nastya Ivleeva in the Tagansky Court. According to TASS, the application has been registered, but the date for its consideration has not yet been set. Previously, a similar lawsuit was filed in the Khamovnichesky Court of Moscow, but it was not accepted due to procedural violations.

MTS is named as a co-defendant in the lawsuit. The company itself has a lawsuit, statedthat are not related to this event, and are not its sponsor or organizer, but if necessary, they will present their position in court.

The lawsuit was filed in the Vsevolozhsk City Court of the Leningrad Region by a certain native of the city of Zlatoust, Chelyabinsk Region, a representative of the “Morozov-Zlatoust religious brotherhood,” writes RIA Novosti. The “naked” party, according to the plaintiff, causes her and her minor child “moral, physical suffering, feelings of hopelessness, doom, fear for the future of their children, grandchildren, for the future of Russia.”

The defendants in the lawsuit are Ivleeva, rapper Nikolai Vasiliev (Vacio), singers Philip Kirkorov, Lolita Milyavskaya and Dima Bilan. The plaintiff demands 200 million rubles from each of them.

The amount of claims was a record in the history of Russia, notes RIA News. Previously, the maximum amount of such claims was 333 million rubles, which were demanded to be recovered from Madonna for “LGBT propaganda” at a concert in St. Petersburg in 2012. The claim was rejected.

2024-01-17 11:53:00
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The Progressive Party of Serbia (SNS) wins the majority of votes in the parliamentary elections held on December 17.

The first results of the processing of ballots and polls conducted by Ipsos and CeSID show that the SNS can count on 46.2% of the vote, while its main rival, the center-left Serbia Against Violence (SPV) Alliance, can count on 23.2%.

“This is an unconditional victory, which I am very happy about,” said Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic, who served as chairman of the SNA until June 2023.

The Progressive Party of Serbia was created in 2008. In 2010, the party leadership signed a cooperation agreement with United Russia. Since 2012, the Progressive Party of Serbia, together with its coalition partners, has held the majority of seats in parliament.

Aleksandar Vucic has served as President of Serbia since June 1, 2017. Before that, he headed the Serbian government for three years.

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2023-12-18 05:51:00

The indecisiveness of the leaders of the European Union on the issue of starting negotiations with Ukraine on the country’s accession to the EU could become a victory for Russian President Vladimir Putin. Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky stated this while speaking via video link at the European Council in Brussels.

According to the Ukrainian leader, since the beginning of 2023, Russia has not achieved significant achievements either on the battlefield or in the international arena. Zelensky called on European leaders to also prevent Russia from winning due to its inability to make a decision at the summit in Brussels.

“Today is the day when determination will be either in Brussels or in Moscow. People in Europe will not understand if the “reward” for a meeting in Brussels is a satisfied smile from Putin,” said the President of Ukraine.

Zelensky stressed that on the eve of the summit with some EU leaders, he “didn’t hear a single counter-argument, why don’t we implement a plan agreed upon by all of Europe.”

The President of Ukraine noted that the country has fulfilled all obligations for joining the EU. The result of the summit, he believes, should be a decision on consent to the plan for Ukraine to begin moving into the European Union, which was previously approved by the European Commission.

Zelensky in address remindedthat during the Euromaidan of 2014, Ukrainians protested en masse against the refusal of the then President of Ukraine to integrate the country into Europe. “10 years ago in Ukraine, people rose under the flags of the European Union. To them it was a symbol of truth, and it should remain so. I ask you one thing today – do not betray the people and their faith in Europe,” he said.

It is expected that during the summit, EU leaders will decide whether to begin negotiations with Ukraine on its accession to the EU before the end of the year and whether to allocate macro-financial assistance to the country in the amount of 50 billion euros from the bloc’s budget.

Ukraine applied for membership in the European Union immediately after the start of the full-scale invasion of Russian troops and soon received the status of a candidate for accession. At the beginning of November 2023, the European Commission recommended starting negotiations with Ukraine on accession to the EU. The decision must be approved by all countries participating in the bloc.

The Hungarian authorities are against the start of negotiations with Ukraine. The country’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban, who is considered Vladimir Putin’s closest ally in Europe, also said that Ukraine would not win on the battlefield and called on the European Union to change its strategy regarding the war.

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2023-12-14 14:29:45