Moscow court refuses to ban face-recognition systemMoscow’s Savelovsky District Court on Wednesday dismissed a lawsuit filed by activist Alena Popova against the Moscow City Government and Russia’s Interior Ministry over the face-recognition system.14:15 06.11.2019
Police amend compensation claim against organizers of illegal Moscow opposition ralliesThe Interior Ministry’s Moscow Main Directorate is seeking to collect about 4.3 million rubles (about $70,000) from organizers of unauthorized summer rallies, including opposition figures Alexey Navalny and Ilya Yashin.15:53 05.11.2019
Russian halfback’s lawsuit against police adjourned until November 13Moscow’s Zamoskvoretsky District Court has adjourned the hearings of a 45-million-ruble (nearly $700,000) lawsuit filed by ex-national football team player Yevgeny Aldonin against Russia’s Interior Ministry, until November 13.17:48 23.10.2019
Interior Ministry's claims against organizers of unauthorized rallies lowered two timesRussia’s Interior Ministry has diminished the amounts of its claims against organizers of unauthorized rallies, among them Alexey Navalny, Ilya Yashin, Lyubov Sobol, and Georogy Alburov, by 8 million rubles ($126,000).19:02 21.10.2019
Russian Interior Ministry ordered to pay $23.5k to mother of police torture victimA court in Russia’s Republic of Ingushetia collected 1.5 million rubles ($23,500) from the Interior Ministry in favor of Lemka Doliyeva, whose son had died after being beaten by police officers.18:00 21.10.2019
Interior Ministry seeks to make media stop publishing directions how to craft firearmsRussia’s Interior Ministry has developed a bill envisaging a ban on dissemination of information on crafting of improvised firearms and their main parts via Internet and mass media.16:09 02.10.2019
Ex-footballers of Russian national team seek to join claims against Interior MinistryFormer players of Russia’s national football team have asked Moscow’s Zamoskvoretsky District Court to join their civil claims seeking to recover in total 260 million rubles (about $4 million) from the Interior Ministry for allegedly unsatisfactory probe into fraud at Zamoskvoretsky bank.11:51 23.09.2019
Simplified Russian citizenship granting order proposed for foreign higher-ed graduatesRussia’s Interior Ministry is developing a bill on simplified procedure of granting citizenship to foreign graduates of Russian higher educational institutions,.10:00 12.09.2019
Moscow Commercial Court to hear $9.3 mln claim of ex-insurer against Interior MinistryThe Moscow Commercial Court has accepted for hearing set on September 23 a petition of Tsentralnoye Obshchestvo company, (Tsentralnoye Strakhovoye Obshchestovo prior to August 9), the license of which was withdrawn and which is in the process of bankruptcy, seeking to claim 611.9 million rubles ($9.3 million) from the Interior Ministry.11:46 29.08.2019
Russian halfback’s lawsuit against police to be heard in SeptemberMoscow’s Zamoskvoretsky District Court will begin hearing a 45-million-ruble (nearly $700,000) lawsuit filed by ex-national football team player Yevgeny Aldonin against Russia’s Interior Ministry on September 9.13:33 15.08.2019
Rights advocates turn to law enforcement over journalists’ arrest at Moscow rallyThe Presidential Council for Human Rights has applied to Russia’s Interior Ministry, National Guard, Investigative Committee and Prosecutor General’s Office over obstructing media activity and arrest of journalists at unauthorized rallies in Moscow.15:44 09.08.2019
Police torture victims awarded $3,000 compensation by courtA court in the Zabaikalsky Krai ordered the Interior Ministry to pay 200,000 rubles ($3,000) to Victoria Barlybayeva and Anatoly Sokolov, who had suffered from tortures by police.13:48 25.07.2019
Fifteen regional police officers charged with taking bribesCorruption charges have been brought against fifteen police officers in Russia’s Republic of Kabardino-Balkaria.10:55 09.07.2019
Investigation into Kuindzhi painting theft completed - policeInvestigation into the theft of a painting by prominent Russian artist of Greek origin Arkhip Kuindzhi from the Tretyakov Gallery is completed.11:28 28.06.2019
State Duma comes out against police initiative on out-of-court driving banThe State Duma lawmakers have opposed the Interior Ministry’s initiative to authorize highway patrolmen to revoke a driver's license without recourse to court.16:10 21.06.2019
Interior Ministry reveals violations committed by police against journalist GolunovInternal affairs division of the Moscow police found violations committed by officers from the city’s Western administrative district department against journalist Ivan Golunov.15:31 21.06.2019
Case against investigative journalist Golunov dropped – Russian Interior MinisterA drug trafficking case against Ivan Golunov, a journalist from Meduza news website, on Tuesday was dropped because of a lack of evidence that he participated in the crime, Russia’s Interior Minister Vladimir Kolokoltsev told journalists.17:31 11.06.2019
Russian Supreme Court refuses to invalidate foreign travel ban for police officersThe Supreme Court of Russia on Tuesday refused to rule a feature of the Interior Ministry’s order banning police officers from free leaving abroad invalid.12:54 04.06.2019
Twelve regional Interior Ministry officers arrested on corruption allegationsTwelve senior police and road traffic safety officers have been arrested in Russia’s Republic of Kabardino-Balkaria on suspicion of corruption.14:09 30.05.2019
Three defendants in Interior Ministry sanatoria embezzlement case to go on trialMoscow’s Tushinsky District Court will hear a criminal case against two former police officers and a contractor CEO, who are charged with embezzlement of more than 67 million rubles ($1 million) allocated for the reconstruction of the Interior Ministry’s sanatoria.12:19 28.05.2019