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Five myths about Russian judicial reform

18:52 26/11/2013 Last June President Vladimir Putin suggested merging the Supreme Court and the Supreme Commercial Court and amending the Constitution to match. Since then the State Duma has received many draft laws relating to the merger and the court’s impending relocation to Saint Petersburg. However, some lawyers are vigorously speaking out against any such reform.

Elucidating the CIA’s post-9/11 justice program

14:18 05/11/2013 More than a decade has passed since that sunny fall morning when four hijacked passenger planes brought the US to its knees. The coordinated attacks of September 11, 2001 killed nearly 3,000 people, obliterated New York’s Twin Towers, caused the partial collapse of the Pentagon, and unrecognizably altered the face of US national security. The attacks compelled security agencies such as the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to improvise tools with which to confront a threat unprecedented in the annals of war: worldwide, stateless, ideology-driven terrorism.

John Reynolds on the Russian trend of London litigation

10:00 07/10/2013 Quite a few cases linked in one way or another to Russia have passed through England’s courts and arbitration tribunals. As a growing number of business contracts stipulate that disputes should be governed by English law, the list continues to grow. Meanwhile, Russia has resolved to draw cases back to its own courts, aiming to tackle some of the judiciary’s more prominent issues. To learn more about this quagmire, RAPSI spoke with John Reynolds, a partner at White & Case and head of its London Litigation Department.

Irina Paliashvili: "Do not put legal business under pressure"

11:53 04/09/2013 Ukraine's legal services market is an incredibly intimate phenomenon among the former Soviet Union republics, retaining an appealing identity: with some exceptions, it has no place for foreigners, and it is dominated by motivated local legal firms. The biggest shock for the rapidly growing market was the financial crisis, which spread across Ukraine in 2008 and consequences of which are here even nowadays. As a result, the business development model had to be revised. Irina Paliashvili, President of the Ukrainian Legal Group, P.A., explained in the interview to RAPSI that the legal atmosphere has drastically changed and it is time to talk about new reality.

Navigating the fine line between whistleblowing and espionage

19:31 28/08/2013 When one reveals classified information, acquired by way of high-level security clearance, to the public at large – is s/he a whistleblower or a spy? What if our hypothetical leaker was motivated at least in part by the desire to expose official wrongdoing, or should that even matter where national security is concerned?

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Moscow court returns lawsuit against antimonopoly watchdog to MegaFon

17:47 18/08/2017 The Moscow Commercial Court has returned a lawsuit filed by one of the largest mobile operators in Russia, MegaFon, against the Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) to the plaintiff.

Amount of fines for corruption exceeds $8.5 million in 2017

16:39 18/08/2017 Amount of fines imposed for corruption offences exceeded 500 million rubles ($8.5 million) in the first half of 2017.

CAS bans Russian athlete Anna Pyatykh for 4 years

14:54 18/08/2017 The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) has disqualified Russian triple-jumper Anna Pyatykh for four years after she had been found responsible for violation of anti-doping regulations.

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