Crimea parliament sets referendum to become part of the Russian Federation Members of Parliament in the southern Ukrainian region of Crimea on Thursday asked the Russian government to allow the region to become part of the Russian Federation. According to the parliament, a referendum to approve the decision to secede from Ukraine and join Russia or restore the 1992 Crimean Constitution, which would maintain the region as an autonomous republic within Ukraine, will be held on March 16. The ballots for the referendum in the majority ethnic Russian region will be printed in the Russian, Ukrainian and Tatar languages. Full independence for Crimea is not an option. Ukraine's interim prime minister Arseny Yatsenyuk condemned the referendum before an emergency EU meeting in Brussels Thursday. The interim Ukrainian government in Kiev does not recognize the new Crimean government which was sworn in at an emergency session last week, and has called the vote to join the Russian Federation unconstitutional. ______________________________________________________________________________________
Crimea parliament sets referendum to become part of the Russian Federation
Members of Parliament in the southern Ukrainian region of Crimea on Thursday asked the Russian government to allow the region to become part of the Russian Federation. According to the parliament, a referendum to approve the decision to secede from Ukraine and join Russia or restore the 1992 Crimean Constitution, which would maintain the region as an autonomous republic within Ukraine, will be held on March 16.
The ballots for the referendum in the majority ethnic Russian region will be printed in the Russian, Ukrainian and Tatar languages. Full independence for Crimea is not an option. Ukraine's interim prime minister Arseny Yatsenyuk condemned the referendum before an emergency EU meeting in Brussels Thursday. The interim Ukrainian government in Kiev does not recognize the new Crimean government which was sworn in at an emergency session last week, and has called the vote to join the Russian Federation unconstitutional.
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U.S.: Federal judge blocks US courts from enforcing Chevron judgment A judge for the US District Court for the Southern District of New York ruled Tuesday that US courts could not be used to collect $9.51 billion in fines and legal fees that previously resulted in an Ecuadorian court's judgment against Chevron. Judge Lewis Kaplan wrote in his near 500-page ruling that the punishment inflicted against Chevron did not justify the means, and that the Ecuadorian court's judgement "was obtained by corrupt means." Kaplan reported that fraudulent evidence had been introduced in the case, and that lawyers arranged to write the opinion against Chevron themselves by coercing a judge.
U.S.: Federal judge blocks US courts from enforcing Chevron judgment
A judge for the US District Court for the Southern District of New York ruled Tuesday that US courts could not be used to collect $9.51 billion in fines and legal fees that previously resulted in an Ecuadorian court's judgment against Chevron.
Judge Lewis Kaplan wrote in his near 500-page ruling that the punishment inflicted against Chevron did not justify the means, and that the Ecuadorian court's judgement "was obtained by corrupt means." Kaplan reported that fraudulent evidence had been introduced in the case, and that lawyers arranged to write the opinion against Chevron themselves by coercing a judge.
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The court found in favor of appellant Cindy Lee Garcia, reversing a US District Court´s denial of Garcia´s request for an injunction to remove the film, Innocence of Muslims.
U.S. - Illinois AG urges issuance of marriage licenses to same-sex couples
Musharraf appeals denial of military court trial
Turkish high court supports former general´s appeal for release
Brazil, Europe plan undersea cable to skirt U.S. spying
Anti-Corruption law (12.846/13), its impact on corporate life and necessary adaptations
the principal purpose of which is to reach the companies and also their managers who may have practiced any type of illegal conduct in collusion with agents of the Public Administration.
The anti-corruption act and the new rules regarding the liability of companies involved in corruption practices
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