The women carried out their 40-second cathedral performance in the runup to a contested March presidential election that brought Putin back to the Kremlin.
Iran's deliberations appear to have been affected by internal divisions since the contested June presidential election and its violent aftermath.
Such actions usually take many months, but the court has agreed to expedite the case given the proximity of the contested December deadline.
Four of the six open-water swimming medalists from the Beijing Olympics will be among nearly 40 athletes in the NYC Pro Swim, a 10-kilometer race to be contested Sept. 6 alongside Governors Island.
The government imposed a state of emergency, and for the first time since a contested Feb. 19 presidential election, the streets and central squares of this ancient city were empty of the crowds of protesters.
Sobchak is a television celebrity who was once Russia's scandalous "it" girl (its Paris Hilton, if you will), and she went over to the side of the opposition when a wave of protests broke out following the contested December parliamentary election.
The $400,000 Commonwealth Derby (G2) for 3-year-olds and the $250,000 Commonwealth Turf Cup (G2) for 3-year-olds and up will be contested Sept. 19.
Pro-Gbagbo forces retain control of state broadcaster RTI, which came back on air on Friday after heavy fighting took it down, showing pro-Gbagbo rallies and footage of his swearing-in ceremony after the contested November election.
The article described a meeting that took place at the White House in June, when Trump expressed outrage that, in spite of his contested January, 2017, executive order barring refugees, particularly those from seven predominantly Muslim countries, too many immigrants had been granted visas to enter the United States.
At the end of December, the Fishers and their partners emerged as the winners in a hotly contested 14-month auction of nine acres owned by Con Edison, along First Avenue south of the United Nations.
It said 7,000 local and regional posts will be contested on Oct. 9, while the elections for president and 129 legislators will take place on Nov. 13.
