Hearing of police claim against illegal Moscow rallies organizers to resume in FebruaryMoscow’s Simonovsky District Court will continue to hear a 4.3-million-ruble lawsuit filed by the Interior Ministry’s Moscow Main Directorate against organizers of unauthorized summer rallies on February 13.18:06 23.01.2020
Prisoner population in Russia is on decline – Rights Commissioner MoskalkovaThe number of individuals held in custody in Russia has decreased by 40,000 in 2019 as compared with the figures registered in the same period of 2018, and makes at the moment 523,900.18:03 23.01.2020
Detention of Moscow student accused in illegal rally case extended againMoscow’s Basmanny District Court on Thursday again extended detention of the Moscow Aviation Institute student Andrey Barshay, who had allegedly given a National Guard officer a poke in the back during an unauthorized summer rally, until January 27.17:27 23.01.2020
State Duma leans toward protection of minors’ housing rights after parents’ divorceA bill introducing new safeguards with respect to housing rights of children of divorcing couples into the Russian Family Code passed its third and final reading in the lower house of parliament, the State Duma, on Thursday.16:11 23.01.2020
Russia’s Human Rights Commissioner proposes to criminalize inadequate medical treatmentRussia’s ombudsman Tatiana Moskalkova has proposed to include in the national Criminal Code a separate provision defining sanctions for failure to provide adeqate medical aid to patients.15:09 23.01.2020
Initiative to introduce Security Council Deputy Chair post adopted by Russian lawmakersThe lower house of Russian parliament, the State Duma adopted a presidential bill establishing a new post, a Deputy Chair of the Security Council, in a final third reading on Thursday.14:14 23.01.2020
Russian prosecutors block overseas website sending false terrorist reportsThe Prosecutor General’s Office along with the communications watchdog Roskomnadzor have restricted access to information resources of the overseas online resource Startmail.com where from false terrorist reports had been sent.13:43 23.01.2020
Russian ombudsman Moskalkova protects rights of convicted Israeli Naama IssacharThe warden of a penal colony in the Moscow Region, where Israeli citizen Naama Issachar convicted of trafficking and possession of drugs serves her 7.5-year term, has been reprimanded for unlawfully denying her visitations of her mother, Russia’s High Commissioner for Human Rights Tatiana Moskalkova informs on Thursday.13:00 23.01.2020
Russia’s lower house of parliament supports amendments to ConstitutionThe State Duma passed a bill on amendments to the Russian Constitution in the first reading on Thursday.12:32 23.01.2020
Investigators demand forced treatment for man accused of murder of boy in kindergartenInvestigators have asked court to send a resident of the Nenets Autonomous Area's Naryan-Mar, who stands charged with killing a 6-year boy in a local kindergarten, to compulsory medical treatment.11:48 23.01.2020
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