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13.03.2009, 21:59
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A report issued by the Congressional Government Accounting Office reveals shocking details of how easily one can get a genuine American passport by applying using falsified documents at a passport office.
23.04.2010, 10:10
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A group of US lawmakers is urging Russian President Dmitry Medvedev to lift the freeze on child adoptions by American citizens - particularly for applications already being processed.
19.05.2009, 02:28
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Marijuana is America’s largest cost crop, said pro-pot advocate in Washington, Aaron Houston, the Director of Government Relations for the Marijuana Policy Project.
06.06.2009, 00:37
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Africans are learning the hard way that in China the consequences for drug smuggling are more grave than a stained criminal record or a long sentence behind bars. Drug smugglers face a life penalty, but not in prison.
10.10.2010, 19:05
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A Central Asia expert, Daniil Kislov is sure that the elections in Kyrgyzstan are leading the republic to the Middle Ages and tribal wars rather than democracy.
RT Politics Interview
20.07.2010, 10:40
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The Russian Foreign Affairs Ministry has sent an official note of protest to the US State Department after American agents detained a Russian citizen in Liberia and secretly transported him to the United States.
13.03.2010, 09:55
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RT is investigating allegations that US immigration officials are using harsh detention methods against those suspected of violating visa rules.
18.10.2010, 12:14
Lawyers of a Russian pilot arrested in Liberia and transferred to America to face drug trafficking charges, have accused the US of violating the law and demanded the case be closed.
29.04.2010, 09:15
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For thousands of illegal immigrants in the US being held in jails all over the country there is no way out, as their cases seldom make it to court. Over the last seven years, 110 detainees have died in the facilities.
02.07.2010, 09:54
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One of the defendants in an alleged Russian spy-ring has been released on bail after a hearing in New York.
Published: 17 July, 2009, 14:20
Edited: 02 January, 2010, 03:00
The infamous tours of La Paz’s San Pedro penitentiary have been closed. The government has ended the cocaine-and-criminals prison circuits, shamed by the movie “Marching Powder”.
I had read a documentary about the prison sistem in La Paz, Bolivia years before Evo became president. It kind of awed as if it was a small community. Prisoners and their dependents can live together in the same cell. I did not know how it worked but it was the Bolivian way. Anyhow, whatever works in a country as long as it is going well, why not keep it that way, otherwise the change for the better is always inevitable.