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Article: European court aggravates the Kremlin Rulings on human rights shine a harsh light on Russia's judicial system
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Clifford J. Levy The New York Times
International Herald Tribune
03-30-2009
European court aggravates the Kremlin Rulings on human rights shine a harsh light on Russia's judicial system
Byline: Clifford J. Levy The New York Times
Edition: 4
Section: NEWS
MOSCOW: --
Fed up with the brazen string-pulling and favor-trading in the corrupt Moscow courts, a judge named Olga B. Kudeshkina went public, criticizing the system in numerous interviews as little more than a legal bazaar - "an instrument," as she put it, "for settling political, commercial or simply personal scores."
When Ms. Kudeshkina was then dismissed, she joined a stampede of Russians in appealing their cases to the European Court ...