Moscow employers ordered to move 30% of staff to remote work amid COVID-19 spreadMoscow Mayor Sergey Sobyanin on Thursday obliged the city’s employers to move upwards of 30% employees to home offices starting October 5.15:14 01.10.2020
Assets worth nearly $4 bln seized from four bankers on Russian Central Bank’s requestThe Moscow Commercial Court has distrained property worth 283.8 billion rubles (about $4 billion) belonging to Mikail Shishkhanov, ex-president of Binbank and owner of Rost Bank, and three other bankers upon a request of Russia’s Central Bank.14:32 01.10.2020
Moscow court to hear appeal against rapper’s detention in car crash caseThe Moscow City Court will consider an appeal against detention of rapper Elmin Guliyev in a case over hitting pedestrians by car in central Moscow on October 12.12:06 01.10.2020
Internet community admin arrested on suspicion of terrorism callsOne of the administrators of the Internet community Uber Alles suspected of publishing materials pushing for terrorist activities has been arrested.11:58 01.10.2020
Irkutsk lawmaker charged with $2.5 mln embezzlement detained for two monthsAndrey Levchenko, lawmaker of the Irkutsk Region Legislative Assembly and son of a former regional Governor, on Tuesday was ordered to be placed in detention until November 20 as part of a 185 million-ruble embezzlement case ($2.5 million).16:36 29.09.2020
Investigation into Moscow municipal lawmaker accused of rally rules breaches completedInvestigation into a criminal case over repeated violations of rally holding regulations against Moscow’s municipal lawmaker Yulia Galyamina is completed.18:53 25.09.2020
Prosecutors approve indictment against Moscow lawmaker charged with $30K embezzlementMoscow prosecutors have approved indictment against a local lawmaker Oleg Sheremetyev in a case on embezzling over 2 million rubles (about $30,000) of budget funds.13:21 25.09.2020
Moscow Mayor’s Office recommends residents to follow COVID-19 warningsMoscow Mayor Sergey Sobyanin has recommended that city residents aged 65 and older and sickly people do not leave their apartments or country houses without the need over degradation of the epidemiological situation.11:17 25.09.2020
Investigation into $30K embezzlement case against Moscow lawmaker completedInvestigators have completed probe into the Moscow City Duma lawmaker Oleg Sheremetyev charged with embezzling over 2 million rubles (about $30,000) of budget funds.09:57 24.09.2020
Charges against rapper in road accident case toughened after drugs found in his bloodPolice toughened charges against rapper Elmin Guliyev in the central Moscow road traffic case after drugs had been found in his blood.00:08 24.09.2020
Investigators seek to detain rapper accused of hitting pedestrians in central MoscowInvestigators have filed a motion seeking detention for rapper Elmin Guliyev accused of hitting pedestrians by car in central Moscow.14:57 23.09.2020
Activist’s sentence for assault on officer at illegal Moscow rally reduced by 6 monthsThe Second Cassation Court of General Jurisdiction on Tuesday reduced sentence given to activist Kirill Zhukov, who had committed an assault on a National Guard officer during an unauthorized rally in Moscow on July 27, from 3 years in penal colony to 2.5 years in penal colony settlement.11:48 22.09.2020
Sham doctor sentenced to 4.5 years in jail for illegal abortionsMoscow’s Tverskoy District Court on Monday sentenced Natalya Stolbovskoya, who had casted herself as gynecology doctor, to 4.5 years in penal colony for illegal abortions and substandard services.15:06 21.09.2020
Dismissal of ex-footballers’ $1.6 mln claim against against Interior Ministry upheldThe Moscow City Court on Friday rejected an appeal filed by four former football players seeking to collect over 124 million rubles ($1.6 million) from the Interior Ministry for failures in the investigation of embezzlement at Zamoskvoretsky bank.11:12 18.09.2020
Urals resident arrested in absentia in case over assault on Russian center in KievMoscow’s Basmanny District Court on Thursday issued an arrest warrant in absentia for a wanted resident of Yekaterinburg, Ural, Yury Izotov charged with assault on the Russian center of science and culture in Kiev.14:15 17.09.2020
Nearly 4,000 alcohol sale violation cases considered by Moscow courts in 18 monthsMoscow courts considered about 4,000 cases over violation of rights of alcohol trade in 2019 and the first half of 2020.11:16 17.09.2020
Owner of car damaged in vehicle accident with Efremov challenges actor’s sentenceThe lease company Stone-XXI, which had owned a car damaged in a traffic road accident involving Mikhail Efremov, filed an appeal seeking to overturn sentence given to the actor.18:08 16.09.2020
Justice Ministry files disbarment plea against ex-defense attorney Russian actor EfremovThe Russian Justice Ministry on Tuesday submitted to the North Ossetian law chamber a disbarment plea against lawyer Elman Pashayev over professional misconduct during the trial of actor Mikhail Efremov.15:20 15.09.2020
Ex-journalist Safronov loses appeal against detention extension in treason caseThe Moscow City Court on Tuesday dismissed an appeal filed by ex-journalist Ivan Safronov charged with treason against extension of his detention until December 7.14:51 15.09.2020
Defendants in Moscow court building arson to spend 4 years each behind barsThe Dorogomilovsky District Court in Moscow has sentenced two defendants in a case over arson of another Moscow district court to four years in a penal colony each.19:08 14.09.2020