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New judicial salary scheme to cost taxpayers $2 bln

12:12 18/07/2012 The Finance Ministry has proposed steps to increase the salaries of judges. If adopted, the legislation will require 65.7 billion rubles ($2 billion) from the federal budget for the judiciary in 2013.

Russia must wait until fall to secure ECHR representation

09:51 09/07/2012 A routine rotation of judges at the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has spiraled into a scandal for Russia. Oddly enough, this ambiguous development was provoked by the European institutions themselves when the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) postponed its appointment of a Russian judge to the court until October.

“Political” non-profit organizations to face increasing scrutiny

10:26 04/07/2012 Politically active non-profit organizations in Russia that receive financial support from abroad will be classified as “foreign agents” and will be entered into a designated registry. They will be required to submit special reports and will be subject to discretionary audits. According to various estimates, the law will affect about 1,000 organizations.

Insiders in Russia to incur criminal liability

16:34 20/06/2012 The law establishing criminal liability for the unlawful use of insider information was adopted in Russia two years ago. Law No. 224-FZ has conferred heightened responsibility on the courts and has given broader powers to the Federal Service for Financial Markets (FSFM). Insiders may be held criminally liable as of 2013, although how well the law will work remains to be seen.

International Brewers Day 2012: The Right to a Cold Beer in Russia and Beyond

14:25 09/06/2012 International Brewers Day 2012 will be a bittersweet affair for many Russian beer fans. By this time next year, many of the ultra-lenient policies currently enjoyed by the nation’s beer venders and consumers will have been supplanted by more restrictive ones.

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One more case opened over Nazi photo on Immortal Regiment website

13:03 04/08/2020 Investigation was launched into a 28-year resident of Russia’s Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), who had allegedly published a photo of Adolf Hitler on the website of the Immortal Regiment movement.

Russia’s Children Ombudsman backs SMA cure to be put on essential drugs list

14:16 04/08/2020 The Russian Children’s Rights Commissioner Anna Kuznetsova believes that the adding of Spinraza medication to the Governmental list of vital and essential drugs is to become an important step in treatment of children suffering from spinal muscular atrophy (SMA).

Moscow court to proceed with blogger’s $3K copyright abuse claim against Navalny in fall

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