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Moscow court mitigates Shaninka rector Zuyev pretrial restrictions to house arrest

The Moscow Tverskoy District Court ruled to release rector of the Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences (Shaninka) Sergey Zuyev, who is a defendant in a 21-million-ruble (about $300,000) embezzlement case, from custody to wait for the trial under house arrest.

16:22 03.08.2022

Investigators move to dismiss extension of house arrest in case against RANEPA rector

The Moscow Tverskoy District Court will not consider a motion of investigators to extend the house arrest of the Russian Presidential Academy of the National Economy and Public Administration (RANEPA) Vladimir Mau, since the preventive measure has been earlier changed to a written undertaking not to leave.

15:37 03.08.2022

Russian Supreme Court to set venue in ex-Culture official case over Hermitage embezzlement

Russia’s Supreme Court is to rule on the proper venue in the case of fraudulent embezzlement of more than 900 million rubles (about $14.8 million) allocated for the reconstruction of the Hermitage Museum against ex-official of the Culture Ministry Boris Mazo.

12:25 03.08.2022

Russian member of far-right Ukrainian battalion gets 9 years in absentia

The Moscow Basmanny District Court on Tuesday sentenced Russian citizen Anton Korolev in absentia to 9 years in jail for taking part in the armed conflict in Ukraine as a member of the ultra-nationalist Ukrainian battalion Azov.

17:14 02.08.2022

Russian court designates ultra-nationalist Ukrainian battalion as terrorist organisation

Russia's Supreme Court has granted a move of the Prosecutor General's Office to designate ultra-nationalist Ukrainian Azov battalion, whose symbol resembles a black swastika on a yellow background, as a terrorist organisation.

13:47 02.08.2022

Moscow court upholds jail term for opposition activist Sobol

The Moscow City Court upheld the change of the sentence for opposition figure Lyubov Sobol from community service to imprisonment.

11:06 02.08.2022

Ex-Transaero owners’ move to lift seizure of property worth $4 billion dismissed

Russia's Supreme Court has dismissed the complaints of former owners and top managers of Transaero air carrier challenging the seizure of their property worth 245 billion rubles (about $4 billion at the current exchange rate), according to the court ruling.

16:51 01.08.2022

Russian BKF bank CEO asks court to put end to massive slanderous campaign in Telegram

CEO of BKF bank, Olga Mirimskaya, has filed a complaint with a Moscow district court challenging inaction of Russia’s Investigative Committee as concerns the authority’s refusal to investigate an alleged fact of a massive slander campaign on a Telegram channel.

11:16 01.08.2022

Massacres in Russia’s Bryansk region during WWII recognized as genocide by court

The Bryansk regional court has recognized as genocide the mass murders of civilians and prisoners of war committed in the region by the Nazis during the Great Patriotic War.

14:21 28.07.2022

Russian court fines WhatsApp $300k for repeated data storage breach

A magistrate judge in Moscow on Thursday fined WhatsApp LLC 18 million rubles (about $300,000) for repeated refusal to localize Russian users’ personal data in the Russian Federation.

12:39 28.07.2022

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

Russia's Supreme Court proposed not to implement rulings of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) and the provisions of the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (ECHR).

12:53 09.12.2025

Redomiciliation stalls: How sanctions are shaping new practices for Russian companies

The mechanism for redomiciliating foreign companies to Russian jurisdiction, in effect since 2018, has recently encountered serious obstacles. Taking into account the background of sanctions-related restrictions introduced in 2022 through 2025, it has become extremely difficult to achieve the goal. The situation gave rise to the phenomenon of dual domicile and led to a rise in the number of new litigations, both in Russia and abroad.

12:32 09.12.2025

Soldiers jailed for killing US journalist Russell Bentley

A military court in Donetsk sentenced three soldiers to up to 12 years in prison for torturing and killing Russell Bentley, a 63-year-old U.S. national who collaborated with Sputnik news agency.

14:05 08.12.2025