Pussy Riot trial: a lot more at stake than Putin's dignity

The principle that judges should be independent is entrenched in British law – the rules are not so clear in Russia and beyondCompared with what's going on in other people's courts, Britain's domestic judicial problems, our ghoulish fascination with the 50-year-old Moors murders and even Julian Assange's extradition fight, are relatively small beer. Across the former Soviet bloc and into nominally communist China we are witnessing dramatic battles to separate justice from politics.That fight i...

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