Turkey to begin extradition of preacher Gülen from USTurkey will begin the extradition process for Islamist preacher Fethullah Gülen from the US, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said Tuesday.17:01 29.04.2014
Russia’s upper house adopts Nazi rehabilitation ban lawRussia's upper house of parliament, the Federation Council, on Tuesday adopted a bill that introduces criminal liability for whitewashing or glorifying Nazism, and spreading false information about the Soviet Union’s role in World War II.16:02 29.04.2014
Russian parliament approves law on national card payment systemThe Federation Council, the upper house of Russia’s parliament, approved the law on creating a national card payment system on Tuesday. President Vladimir Putin said that Visa and MasterCard could lose the Russian market and pointed to the need to create a national card payment system in Russia.15:28 29.04.2014
Lawsuit over Russian TV channels ban in Ukraine to be heard on May 6The District Administrative Court of Kiev on Tuesday postponed the hearing of a lawsuit filed by Ukraine’s National Council on Television and Radio Broadcasting concerning the barring of four Russian TV channels in Ukraine until May 6.14:56 29.04.2014
NGOs should be put on foreign agent registry by court order – officialRussian Prosecutor General Yuri Chaika said on Tuesday that NGOs should be put on the foreign agents list not only on a voluntary request, but on a court order as well.13:46 29.04.2014
Russian Supreme Court Chairman Lebedev earned over $244,000 in 2013The chairman of the Russian Supreme Court, Vyacheslav Lebedev, earned 8.8 mln rubles ($244,300) last year, which is 2.6 mln rubles more than the year before, according to a statement on the court’s website.12:50 29.04.2014
Japan imposes visa sanctions on 23 Russian officialsThe Japanese Government has introduced a visa ban for 23 Russian officials in the wake of the situation in Ukraine. The names of the officials have not been revealed.12:20 29.04.2014
Ukraine claims Yanukovich and top officials funneled $32 bln to RussiaUkraine’s Acting Prosecutor General Oleh Makhnitskyi said in an interview with The Financial Times that Viktor Yanukovich and his team had allegedly removed at least $32 billion to Russia, the Prosecutor General’s Office said on its website.11:46 29.04.2014
Estonian court supports ban on tuition in Russian at high schoolsThe Supreme Court of Estonia on Monday rejected an appeal from the Tallinn and Narva governments, upholding the Russian-language teaching ban, the court said on Tuesday.10:54 29.04.2014
Poland launches investigation into alleged Ukrainian nationalists trainingPolish prosecutors have opened a criminal case against unidentified persons suspected of training Ukrainian nationalists who took part in mass riots in Ukrainian capital, Przemyslaw Nowak, spokesman for the District Prosecutor’s Office in Warsaw, told RIA Novosti on Tuesday.10:30 29.04.2014
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