Trial For Slander

Jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny is due back in court on Friday for a slander trial despite Western calls for his release and on the same day as the European Union's top diplomat is in Moscow for talks with Russia's foreign minister.

A journalist for a US-funded radio station went on trial on Thursday in Uzbekistan on charges including slander and posing a threat to public order, an Uzbek rights group said.Abdumalik Boboyev, an Uzbek journalist with US government-funded Voice of America, is accused of insulting state officials and police through his reports. Other charges inclu...

Jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny is due back in court on Friday for a slander trial despite Western calls for his release and on the same day as the European Union's top diplomat is in Moscow for talks with Russia's foreign minister.

A journalist for a US-funded radio station went on trial on Thursday in Uzbekistan on charges including slander and posing a threat to public order, an Uzbek rights group said.Abdumalik Boboyev, an Uzbek journalist with US government-funded Voice of America, is accused of insulting state officials and police through his reports. Other charges inclu...