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Russian opposition figures ordered to pay $1.4 mln to school catering company

The Moscow Commercial Court on Monday ordered opposition politicians Alexey Navalny and Lyubov Sobol, as well as an anticorruption NGO, to compensate 88 million rubles (about $1.4 million) to a company supplying food to schools. Navalny was also to retract and remove certain incorrect information from his YouTube channel.

18:05 28.10.2019

Moscow court to check lawfulness of Navalny’s foundation foreign agent status

Moscow’s Zamoskvoretsky District Court is to hear an administrative case brought by a nonprofit organization established by opposition politician Alexey Navalny, seeking to reverse a Justice Ministry’s decision to add the foundation to the list of NGOs acting as foreign agents, on November 1.

17:13 28.10.2019

Ex-Dagestan official convicted of embezzlement faces corruption trial - prosecutors

A former stand-in chairman of the government of Dagestan Abdusamad Gamidov, who was convicted of embezzlement on Monday, is also charged with several counts of corruption crimes, deputy chief of the Prosecutor General’s Office’s Department for Supervision over Investigation of Major Cases Sergey Bochkarev told RAPSI.

16:57 28.10.2019

Russia's major semiconductor manufacturer declared bankrupt

The Moscow Commercial Court has declared Angstrem-T, the leading Russia’s semiconductor manufacturer, bankrupt.

15:02 28.10.2019

Two ex-officials of Russia’s Dagestan ordered to jail for $640k embezzlement

Two ex-officials of Russia’s Republic of Dagestan on Monday were sentenced to prison for embezzlement of 41 million rubles (over $640,000).

14:00 28.10.2019

Putin presses for criminalization of online drug propaganda

Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered the government to draft a bill fixing criminal punishment for online inducing to drug use and propaganda of drugs.

13:24 28.10.2019

Two former Dagestani officials found guilty of $640,000 embezzlement

Moscow’s Lefortovsky District Court on Monday found a former stand-in chairman of the government of Dagestan Abdusamad Gamidov and a former stand-in deputy prime minister Rayudin Yusufov guilty of embezzling 41 million rubles (over $640,000).

12:48 28.10.2019

Soldier charged with killing comrades-in-arms put in detention for two months

A garrison military court in Chita, a city in Russia’s Zabaikalye Territory, ordered soldier Ramil Shamsutdinov, who had allegedly done the deadly shooting in a military unit, to be detained for two months.

11:11 28.10.2019

Russian Supreme Court upholds bankruptcy of Yugra bank

The Supreme Court of Russia has dismissed a petition filed by the representative of Yugra bank members Alexander Suchkov and refused to overturn a bankruptcy ruling against the financial organization.

10:59 28.10.2019

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Ookla LLC loses court challenge against fine for data storage violations

A 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 conditions

Russia'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 Duma

Lawmakers 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