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Streaming court hearings over the Internet will help justice

13:36 07/02/2012 Prime Minister and presidential candidate Vladimir Putin in his election platform proposed streaming court hearings over the Internet and publishing their transcripts. He also pointed out the need to develop a single and accessible precedent base of judicial decisions for the trial court system. Similar base is used by the commercial courts.

Lawyers undecided on need for business commissioner

18:06 03/02/2012 Russia will have a commissioner to protect the rights of all businessmen – not only foreign investors, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said. However, despite its supposed aim is to protect private capital, the initiative could produce side effects.

Supreme Commercial Court chairman: Time to change business model

11:13 27/01/2012 The commercial court system will celebrate its 20th anniversary in late January. In the run-up to the event, Supreme Commercial Court Chairman Anton Ivanov spoke with Sergei Feklyunin, the Russian Legal Information Agency, about the system's work in 2011.

Medvedev moves to restore gubernatorial elections

14:10 23/01/2012 President Dmitry Medvedev submitted to the State Duma a draft law restoring direct popular elections of regional governors to terms of up to five years and enabling political parties to nominate candidates for governorships.

Russians stole $363 mln from government in 2011

12:06 11/01/2012 Theft and robbery were the most common cases heard by Russian courts in 2011, whereas cases involving illegal enterprise were the least frequent, according to the Judicial Department’s report on Russian criminal court proceedings for the first six months of 2011. Russia lost $363 mln due to crime in the same period.

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Defense Ministry ordered to pay $60k to mother of soldier killed by tank fire

15:58 04/06/2020 A court in the Leningrad Region obliged Russia’s Defense Ministry to pay 4 million rubles (about $60,000) to the mother of a common soldier Andrey Vittikh, who had died from tank fire during army exercises because of the command officers’negligence.

Finalized bill permitting to make labor contracts distantly reaches Russia’s State Duma

17:44 04/06/2020 A new refined version of a bill setting forth requirements pertaining to distant intercommunications between employers and employees, in particular those relating to labor contracts made, or vacation request letters and resignation notices submitted via internet has reached the lower house of Russia’s parliament.

Suspect in case over fuel spillage disaster in Russia’s North detained until July 31

15:10 04/06/2020 The Krasnoyarsk Krai Court on Thursday ordered a chief of the boiler-and-turbine floor of a heat and power plant in Russia’s northern town Norilsk to be put in detention until July 31 as part of a case over disaster resulted in the fuel spillage into a local stream and river Ambarnaya.

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