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Mother of Egyptian plane crash victim denied compensation

Moscow’s Basmanny District Court on Thursday dismissed a lawsuit filed by Valentina Averkina, the mother of a woman died in Airbus A321 plane crash in Egypt, demanding full payment of compensation from VTB-Strahovanie insurance company.

18:47 17.11.2016

Criminal case on embezzlement at Russian Admiralteysky bank forwarded to court

A criminal case against Musa Israilov who stands charged with illegal banking activity and large scale embezzlement from Russia’s Admiralteysky bank, has been sent to the Khamovnichesky District Court of Moscow.

18:28 17.11.2016

Transaero seeks withdrawal of bankruptcy case

Transaero air carrier has filed an application with the Commercial Court of St. Petersburg and Leningrad Region seeking to drop bankruptcy proceedings against it.

17:00 17.11.2016

Russian Antimonopoly Service organizes inspections at Lenovo’s office

Russia’s Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) organized an inspection at Lenovo office in Moscow.

16:48 17.11.2016

Case of Russian border agency’s ex-head reaches court

A criminal case over embezzlement of 490 million rubles ($7.6 million) allocated for Russia’s state border infrastructure development involving the Federal Border Development Agency’s ex-head Dmitry Bezdelov has been forwarded to Moscow’s Meshchansky District Court, the Prosecutor General’s Office reported Thursday.

14:35 17.11.2016

Russian communications regulator starts blocking LinkedIn

Russia’s communications regulator Roskomnadzor added LinkedIn which boasts to be the world's largest business network on the blacklist and notified internet providers about blocking.

12:03 17.11.2016

Russian Internet store ordered to pay Cypriot firm $7 million

The Ninth Commercial Court of Appeals has held that Edil-Import company (Internet store Holodilnik.ru) must pay 461.4 million rubles ($7 million) to Cyprus-based company UCF Partners Limited for infringement of exclusive rights for audiovisual works.

11:48 17.11.2016

Defendants should not be convicted only due to admittance of guilt – Supreme Court

Courts of general jurisdiction should not convict people only on the basis of a guilty plea by a defendant in the case, according to a draft prepared by the plenum of the Supreme Court of Russia "On the verdict”.

10:54 17.11.2016

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