ECHR awards Yukos shareholders EUR 1.86 billion in damagesThe European Court of Human Rights has awarded the shareholders of the former Yukos oil company EUR 1.86 billion in damages in a lawsuit filed against the Russian tax authorities.13:50 31.07.2014
Siberian bank ordered to pay Microsoft $17k for copyright infringementThe Krasnoyarsk Region Commercial Court has ordered Kansky Commercial Bank to pay 597,700 rubles ($ 16,773) to Microsoft Corporation for the illegal use of the company’s software, the court told RAPSI on Wednesday.11:44 30.07.2014
Aeroflot awarded record $28,000 in compensation after in-flight brawlThe Moscow City Court has awarded Aeroflot a record-large compensation of about 1 million rubles ($28,000), to be collected from Vladimir Rakhimov for a drunken brawl on a Tenerife-Moscow flight, Kommersant newspaper writes on Wednesday.11:15 30.07.2014
Hague court ruling on Yukos doesn’t concern BP – company headThe ruling of the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague that awards former Yukos shareholders $50 billion in compensation in a lawsuit against Russia does jot concern BP, RIA Novosti announced, citing BP Director Robert Dudley.10:38 30.07.2014
Former Yukos shareholders ready to compromise with RussiaFormer Yukos shareholders are ready to compromise with Russian officials after the International Court of Justice in The Hague ruling if government officials can present reasonable and grounded suggestions, the director of Group Menatep Limited (GML), Tim Osborne, told RIA Novosti.17:04 29.07.2014
Pussy Riot demanding 250,000 euros from Russia in moral damagesPussy Riot members Maria Alyokhina and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova are suing Russia for 250,000 euros in a suit filed with the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR). The amount includes 120,000 euros in moral damages for each of the claimants and 10,000 euros to cover legal expenses, RIA Novosti reports citing Vedomosti.11:47 28.07.2014
Russia to pay $50 bln compensation to former Yukos shareholdersThe Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague has ruled on the former Yukos shareholders’ $114 billion damages lawsuit against Russia, which will have to pay them $50 billion in compensation, Kommersant newspaper writes, citing sources.10:25 28.07.2014
Dutch court ruling in Yukos v Rosneft case due by August 27An Amsterdam district court ruling in the Yukos International UK BV $333 mln case against Rosneft is expected by August 27, RIA Novosti reported Friday.15:13 25.07.2014
Strabag ordered to pay $5.5 million to major Russian insurersThe Moscow Commercial Court has ruled that a major Austrian construction company, Strabag, is to repay about 190 million rubles ($5.5 million) to Russian insurers Ingosstrakh, AIG Insurance and Reinsurance Company and ACE, reads a document posted in the court’s database.15:05 17.07.2014
US court ordered figure skater Baiul to pay $35,000 in NBC’s legal feesA New York judge has ordered figure skater Oksana Baiul to compensate NBC’s $35,000 legal fees in a lawsuit filed by the Ukrainian-born skater against the company last year, AP writes.11:03 15.07.2014
Moscow court to hear $28 million lawsuit against Mechel affiliate on July 18The Moscow commercial court has postponed the hearing of a RUB 947 million ($28 million) lawsuit filed by Rosbank against a company related to Russian mining and metals company Mechel until July 18, RAPSI reports from the courtroom.13:37 14.07.2014
Ukrainian mogul Kolomoisky plans to sue Russia over investments in CrimeaDnepropetrovsk Region Governor Ihor Kolomoisky plans to sue Russia over his investment in a company that owned Belbek airport, the Ukrainian oligarch, whom Russia’s Investigative Committee put on the international wanted list for crimes in Ukraine, said in an interview with Ukrainian channel 5 TV.10:30 14.07.2014
Appeals court revokes ruling in Russian Railways v. Finance Ministry disputeThe Ninth Commercial Court of Appeals overturned a ruling ordering Russia’s Finance Ministry to pay 7 billion rubles ($204 million) in compensation to Russian Railways for the transportation of benefit recipients in 2009, RAPSI reports from the courtroom.12:01 07.07.2014
Court rules against widow in Bentley car crash suitMoscow’s Tverskoi Court has ruled in favor of the defendant in a 60 million ruble ($1.75 million) lawsuit filed by Irina Mikhailova, the widow of Alexander Onisonyan who was killed in a traffic accident, her attorney Maxim Stolyarov told RAPSI on Friday. The defendant in the case was auto dealer Bruklands.16:26 04.07.2014
US Supreme Court upholds ruling on banks’ involvement in 9/11 attacksThe US Supreme Court has left intact a lower court’s ruling that dismissed the claims filed by the victims of the September 11, 2001 attacks in New York against several Middle Eastern banks, which they accused of indirectly supporting Islamic militants.09:50 01.07.2014
Three Russian insurers ordered to pay Strabag AG $342kThe Moscow Commercial Court on Thursday has ordered Russian insurers Ingosstrakh, AIG Insurance and Reinsurance Company and ACE to pay about 12 million rubles ($341,493) to Strabag AG, a major Austrian construction company, for the collapse of the underground car park of the Vivaldi Plaza office and hotel building in 2009, RAPSI reports from the courtroom.13:04 05.06.2014
WWII siege survivors' $1.5 mln lawsuit against TV channel moved to June 30The Zamoskvoretsky District Court of Moscow on Wednesday consolidated the defamation lawsuits filed by two seniors from St. Petersburg demanding 51 million rubles ($1.5 million) in all from Russian TV channel Dozhd, after a controversial World War II poll was posted on the station's website, RAPSI reports from the courtroom.13:29 04.06.2014
Navalny’s appeal against ruling in libel case moved to June 23Moscow’s Babushkinsky District Court on Wednesday postponed until June 23 the hearing of an appeal filed by opposition activist and anti-corruption crusader Alexei Navalny challenging the ruling in a libel case against Moscow municipal lawmaker Aleksei Lisovenko, RAPSI reports from the courtroom.13:06 04.06.2014
Former Yukos shareholders' lawsuit against Russia to be resolved by JulyThe Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague will rule on the former Yukos shareholders’ $100 billion damages lawsuit against Russia no later than the end of June, Deutsсhe Welle announced.10:31 04.06.2014
Ukraine to sue Russia for $90 bln over CrimeaActing Prime Minister of Ukraine Arseniy Yatsenyuk said at the Verkhovna Rada on Tuesday that Ukraine would sue Russia for 1 trillion hryvnias (about $90 billion) in profit shortfall due to the loss of Crimea.15:22 03.06.2014