Child Rights Commissioner helps schoolgirl to return from U.S. to RussiaChildren's ombudsman Anna Kuznetsova has helped a minor from Russia’s Novosibirsk Region to return to her home country by a flight carrying repatriated Russian citizens from New York to Pulkovo airport in St. Petersburg.17:45 15.04.2020
Six members of Jehovah’s Witnesses banned in Russia face trialA court in the city of Ulyanovsk will consider a criminal case against six members of Jehovah’s Witnesses, a religious organization banned in Russia, the press service of the Prosecutor General’s Office reports Wednesday.17:04 15.04.2020
Russian President asked to postpone Victory Parade due to COVID-19 spreadRussian veterans’ organizations have requested President Vladimir Putin to postpone the May 9 Victory Day Parade in Moscow due to the coronavirus outbreak.16:32 15.04.2020
Moscow court fines beauty shop owner $700 for violating antivirus regulationsThe Tverskoy District Court in Moscow has fined the owner of a beauty salon 50,000 rubles (about $700), since it continued to provide services to clients in violation to the lockdown orders from the capital’s authorities.15:11 15.04.2020
Probe into 2019 deadly plane fire at Moscow airport completedInvestigation into aircraft captain Denis Yevdokimov over the deadly fire on board a passenger aircraft Sukhoi Superjet-100 (SSJ-100) at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo airport that had killed 41 people was completed.14:26 15.04.2020
Rights advocate urges U.S. Ambassador to assist in bringing schoolchildren back to RussiaChair of the Presidential Human Rights Council's standing commission on international cooperation in the sphere of human rights Alexander Brod has turned to U.S. Ambassador in Russia John Sullivan on behalf of NGO Lawyers for Human Rights and Dignified Life seeking his assistance in returning back home Russian schoolchildren.13:43 15.04.2020
St. Petersburg court refuses to overturn coronavirus observatory isolation orderA court in St. Petersburg on Wednesday refused to overturn an order of Russia’s consumer rights watchdog Rospotrebnadzor obliging a Russian citizen, who had arrived from abroad, to be isolated for medical observation.12:58 15.04.2020
Ex-Deputy PM assistant to stay detained till July in tourism bribery caseMoscow’s Basmanny District Court on Wednesday extended detention of Anastasia Alekseyeva, ex-assistant of the former Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich, in a tourism bribery case for three months.11:59 15.04.2020
Probe opened into mass COVID-19 infection in Leningrad Region migrant hostelA criminal case over sanitary and epidemiological violations resulted in the coronavirus mass infection has been opened in the Leningrad Region. The probe was launched after coronavirus 35 residents of a local migrant hostel had been tested positive for coronavirus.10:50 15.04.2020
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