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Berlusconi sentenced to seven years in under-aged prostitution case

Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has been convicted of paying for sex with an underage prostitute.

21:45 24.06.2013

Russian Civil Society activist cleared of charges arising from NGO raids

A Lipetsk court has dismissed charges against Irina Shchurko, the president of the Foundation for the Development of Modern Civil Society Institutions, who refused to provide the documents required by prosecutors during sweeping inspections of NGOs due to a lack of offense.

17:49 24.06.2013

Accused hacker denies attacking Aeroflot's website

Pavel Vrublevsky, the co-founder and owner of ChronoPay, one of Russia's largest e-payment providers, told the Dorogomilovsky District Court that he was not involved in a DDoS attack on Aeroflot's website in 2010.

17:14 24.06.2013

Former YUKOS shareholder gets six more years to his life sentence

The Simonovsky District Court in Moscow on Monday passed a six-year sentence on former YUKOS shareholder Leonid Nevzlin on charges of misappropriation, RAPSI reports from the court.

16:44 24.06.2013

Russian pilot jailed in United States does not expect fair trial

Konstantin Yaroshenko, a Russian pilot convicted in the United States, does not believe that he will receive a fair trial in a US court, he told Voice of Russia radio.

16:27 24.06.2013

EuroImp loses defamation lawsuit against Metro Cash & Carry

The Ninth Commercial Court of Appeals has upheld the lower court's decision to dismiss the defamation lawsuit filed by EuroImp against the Russian division of Metro Cash & Carry, RAPSI learned in court on Monday.

15:50 24.06.2013

Moscow City Court calls for faster medical examination of arrested individuals

The Moscow City Court has proposed developing a simplified procedure for Moscow hospitals to examine individuals who have been placed in custody and claim to have a serious condition, the court's Deputy Chairman Dmitry Fomin said at a roundtable on remand center medical examinations.

15:28 24.06.2013

Mother who killed her children sentenced to compulsory medical treatment

The Moscow Regional Court has sentenced a local woman who pushed her two sons from the balcony to compulsory medical treatment.

14:37 24.06.2013

US court frees "world's sexiest computer hacker" prosecuted for bank fraud

Kristina Svechinskaya, widely dubbed the "world's sexiest computer hacker," prosecuted in the United States for taking part in stealing $3 million from bank accounts, has been released by the New York Southern Federal District Court and placed under surveillance.

13:47 24.06.2013

Moscow court upholds arrest of former Rosbank CEO's brother's accounts

The Moscow City Court has supported the freezing of businessman Sergei Golubkov's bank accounts, the court told RAPSI on Monday.

12:57 24.06.2013

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Russian courts allowed not to implement rulings of Europe's human rights court

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