Russian lawmakers propose to cancel fines for underage prostitutionThe State Duma Committee for Constitutional Legislation and Nation Building has recommended that lawmakers adopt a bill which would cancel administrative liability for underage prostitution.15:05 13.01.2014
LGBT activist fined for gay propaganda in TatarstanA magistrate court in Kazan, the capital of Tatarstan, ruled Thursday that gay rights activist Dmitry Isakov, who held a one-man demonstration in support of the LGBT community, is to be fined 4,000 rubles ($120) for “propaganda of nontraditional sexual relations.”17:18 19.12.2013
Russian official pays record $29 million fine for briberyA former public officer has been ordered to pay 950 million rubles ($29 mln), the largest ever fine in Russia, for attempted bribe-taking, the Ministry of the Interior reported Tuesday.10:46 17.12.2013
Metro Cash & Carry appeals ruling in copyright disputeThe Russian subsidiary of Metro Cash & Carry has filed a cassation appeal challenging a court's earlier decision to order the company to pay out 500,000 rubles ($15,032) in compensation for copyright violations.11:14 05.12.2013
Mail.ru claim against non-disclosure fine to be reviewed in JanuaryThe Moscow Commercial Court set a hearing date of January 16 for a claim filed by Mail.Ru contesting a 500,000 ruble fine imposed for refusing to disclose user data to the Bank of Russia’s financial market regulation branch.16:54 28.11.2013
Fines for smoking in public take effect in RussiaFines for smoking in public places came in effect on Friday. President Vladimir Putin signed a law banning smoking in public places and tobacco advertising on February 25.11:13 15.11.2013
Antitrust regulator's ruling to fine Metro Cash & Carry $9,500 upheldThe Federal Commercial Court of the Moscow District has upheld the Federal Antimonopoly Service's (FAS) decision to impose on Metro Cash & Carry a fine of 300,000 rubles, RAPSI learned in court on Wednesday.13:53 25.09.2013
MICEX securities fraud mastermind gets three years in prisonThe Basmanny district court of Moscow has sentenced securities fraud mastermind Oleg Kuznetsov to three years in prison and fined him 200,000 rubles (over $6,000), according to a statement released by Russia’s Federal Service for Financial Markets (FFMS).18:07 27.08.2013
McDonald's fined $3,000 for breaking sanitation standards in St. PetersburgA court in St. Petersburg has granted the claim filed by Russia’s sanitation and consumers rights watchdog, Rospotrebnadzor, and fined McDonald's 100, 000 rubles (app. $3,000) for breaking sanitary standards.17:41 01.08.2013
Femen activists detained for topless protest in Kiev fined, releasedThree Femen activists and a photographer for the "Russian Reporter" magazine that were detained on Saturday, have been released by the courts' order, a Kiev police spokesman told RIA Novosti11:46 29.07.2013
Pochta Rossii fined $11k for violating mail delivery termsThe courts of Moscow and Moscow region have fined Russia's postal service Pochta Rossii 360,000 rubles ($11,064) for violating mail delivery terms.15:32 26.07.2013
McDonald's complaint over fine for hiring foreigner without work permit rejectedThe Ninth Commercial Court of Appeals has upheld the Federal Migration Service's decision to fine McDonald's for hiring a woman from Kyrgyzstan who did not have a permit to work in Russia.13:09 16.07.2013
Russia raises air pollution fines for businessesPresident Vladimir Putin has signed changes to the Administrative Offenses Code significantly raising fines for environmental pollution, the Natural Resources Ministry reports on Monday.16:18 08.07.2013
State Duma ups fines for illegal immigrants in Moscow and St. PetersburgThe State Duma on Friday adopted a law in the third and final reading which raises fines for immigrants living or working illegally in Moscow, St. Petersburg, the Moscow and Leningrad Regions.16:46 05.07.2013
Drug users to be fined for refusing rehabThe State Duma has adopted a bill in the first reading introducing administrative liability for drug users who shirk treatment and medical and social rehabilitation.10:19 03.07.2013
Municipal authorities to receive share of fines paid for consumer rights violationsA group of upper house legislators have sponsored a bill proposing that 50% of every fine paid by companies for violating consumer rights which does not go into the federal coffers be divided evenly between local governments and consumer rights advocacy groups.13:07 02.07.2013
Golos Association NGO fined over refusal to register as foreign agentThe Presnensky District Court in Moscow has supported the $9,500 fine imposed on Golos, a voters' rights advocacy group, for its refusal to register as a foreign agent.15:51 14.06.2013
US Ambassador concerned over Russia's 'gay propaganda' banUS ambassador to Russia, Michael McFaul, has said that the ban on homosexual propaganda contradicts the spirit of a democratic society. On Tuesday, the lower house adopted in the second and third readings a law introducing administrative liability with a fine reaching 1 million rubles ($30,990) for gay propaganda among children, in particular via the use of the media, the Internet and viral advertizing.12:51 13.06.2013
St. Petersburg legislators refuse to cancel fines for gay propagandaThe St. Petersburg city parliament has rejected an initiative to cancel fines for the propaganda of homosexuality, bisexuality and transsexuality among minors, by 50 votes to 9.13:54 05.06.2013
Former financial director of Porsche fined for credit fraudA criminal court in Stuttgart, Germany, on Tuesday sentenced Holger Haerter, former CFO of German luxury carmaker Porsche Holding, to a EUR 630,000 fine for a loan fraud.13:15 05.06.2013