Bill on daylight savings time may be considered on Apr.15Legal Department of the Presidential Administration has approved a bill on daylight savings time reverse, Sergei Kalashnikov, one of the initiative's authors and head of the committee for Health, told RIA Novosti on Tuesday.18:01 01.04.2014
Cheese factory faces criminal charges for employees bathing in milkLocal prosecutors are probing an Omsk cheese factory after plant employees posted online a photo of themselves bathing in milk, the Omsk Prosecutor General’s Office announced Tuesday.17:20 01.04.2014
Latvia will not heed UN language law recommendations – officialLatvia will not amend its state language law in connection with a recent set of UN recommendations, education minister Ina Drujviete stated on Tuesday.16:54 01.04.2014
CIA misrepresented interrogation program to US govt. - reportThe US Senate Intelligence Committee concluded in a recent report that the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) misled officials about its former interrogation program for years, The Washington Post reported Tuesday.16:22 01.04.2014
Russian Prosecutor General's Office demands closure of extremist websitesRussia's Prosecutor General's Office ordered the telecommunications regulator Roskomnadzor to shut down four more extremist websites, official spokesperson for the prosecutor's office Marina Gridneva said Tuesday.15:35 01.04.2014
YUKOS minority shareholder loses bid against KhodorkovskyThe Ninth Commercial Court of Appeals will not review the lower court ruling that dismissed a compensation lawsuit filed by Yuganskneftegaz minority shareholder against YUKOS former CEO Mikhail Khodorkovsky, RAPSI reports from the courtroom on Tuesday.15:03 01.04.2014
Disney faces federal suit over alleged ‘Frozen’ copyright infringementAlleging that a teaser trailer for Disney’s latest animated blockbuster Frozen was a flagrant rip-off of her own short film, The Snowman, a California animator has filed a federal claim against the film giant.13:51 01.04.2014
Moscow teen school shooter to stay in detention until AugustMoscow's Basmanny District Court on Tuesday extended the detention of Sergey Gordeev, the 15-year-old who was detained in February after a shootout and hostage crisis in a Moscow school that left a teacher and a police officer dead, for four months, RAPSI reports from the courtroom. Gordeev will remain in detention until August 3.13:22 01.04.2014
All Chernobyl cleanup workers to receive benefitsRussia’s Constitutional Court on Tuesday invalidated a regulation that denied Chernobyl cleanup worker an accompanying benefit status to members of student construction teams who took park in cleanup operations after the 1986 nuclear plant accident in Chernobyl, Ukraine, who were not dispatched there by executive decision.12:50 01.04.2014
Ukraine’s parliament moves for immediate disarmament of militiasUkrainian Verkhovna Rada on Tuesday adopted a resolution for the immediate disarmament of all illegal militias. The resolution was approved by 256 lawmakers with 220 passing minimum required.12:31 01.04.2014
Ookla LLC loses court challenge against fine for data storage violationsA Russian court said on Tuesday it had rejected a complaint filed by Ookla LLC against a 1-million ruble fine for not storing the personal data of Russian users in databases on Russian territory.17:20 17.01.2023
Russian Justice Ministry vows to improve jail conditionsRussia's Ministry of Justice has unveiled its proposals aimed at amending the internal rules of pre-trial detention centers and correctional facilities.15:29 13.01.2023
Bill on establishing Military Ombudsman post submitted to Russia’s State DumaLawmakers representing the New People party in the lower house of the Russian parliament have submitted to the State Duma a bill envisaging the introduction of the post of military ombudsman.16:17 12.10.2022