NGO to challenge US ownership of Alaska in Russian court Apr. 29The Moscow Commercial Court has ordered the Russian Orthodox Church NGO Pchyolki to provide additional documents for its claim against the US governments purchase of Alaska and has postponed the case until April 29.14:10 01.04.2013
Government proposes increasing duty on divorce for financing alimony fundThe government has forwarded proposals to the president's executive office on financing the alimony fund, including by raising the state duty on divorce and impounding debtors' property to ensure the payment of alimony.13:41 28.03.2013
New 'greater' Moscow land regulations violate rights - Civic ChamberThe bill approved by the Federation Council allowing the Moscow authorities to seize land from owners in the newly incorporated areas of Moscow abuses residents' rights, says Igor Kovpak, chairman of the board of the Interregional Developers' Union non-profit partnership and a member of the Russian Civic Chamber.10:21 28.03.2013
Supreme Commercial Court sends offshore company's case for reviewThe Supreme Commercial Court has sent for review a case that required the disclosure of an offshore company's details, the court told RAPSI on Tuesday.16:02 26.03.2013
Ex-banker withdraws testimony in multibillion property theft in MoscowInvestigators intend to terminate the pretrial agreement made with a witness in the case of the attempted theft of 120 properties in Moscow who has withdrawn his testimony.11:41 25.03.2013
Schneerson book collection to be handed over to Russian HasidsBooks from the so-called Yitzchok Schneerson collection will be handed over to Russian Hasids amid requests by Hasids in the United States to transfer the books into their possession instead.16:46 15.03.2013
De Boire icon collection divided equally among heirsOn Friday, Moscow's Presnensky District Court approved an amicable agreement, under which Mikhail de Boire's collection of almost 200 icons shall be divided equally among his three heirs.13:11 15.03.2013
Moscow McDonald's office space lawsuit rejectedThe Moscow Commercial Court has turned down Moscow McDonald's lawsuit to invalidate the Moscow government's property rights to its facility.16:22 28.02.2013
YUKOS defendant's property seizure reversal upheldThe Moscow City Court on Monday ruled to uphold the reversal of the property seizure of deceased Yukos defendant and former vice-president, Vasily Aleksanyan.17:50 25.02.2013
Putin opposes return of cultural objects confiscated after 1917President Vladimir Putin has spoken out against upholding requests for the return of objects of cultural value which were confiscated by the Soviet government after the 1917 revolution.10:19 20.02.2013
State Duma extends free housing privatization until 2015The State Duma passed a bill in all three readings on Tuesday, extending free housing privatization until March 1, 2015.15:51 19.02.2013
Russian culture ministry to strike back at US over Schneerson LibraryThe Russian Foreign Ministry has recommended that the Ministry of Culture and the Russian State Library appeal to the courts and fine the US Library of Congress for failing to return seven books from the Schneerson Collection which Moscow lent to Washington as part of an interlibrary loan in 1994.11:05 08.02.2013
Berezovsky and his ex-flame grapple over estate sale proceedsBoris Berezovsky, a storied tycoon who fled from Russia at the turn of the millennium after a rapid fall from grace, has found himself in the High Court of Justice once again, this time at the receiving end of a massive freeze order sought by long-time ex-girlfriend Yelena Gorbunova.14:36 24.01.2013
Russia may sue US Chassids for failure to return religious textsRussia's Foreign Minister, Sergey Lavrov, proposed initiating proceedings against select members of America's Chassidic Jewish community who allegedly failed to return some books that were borrowed from the Yitzchok Schneerson collection.15:15 23.01.2013
Chassidic sect won't insist on freeze of Russian assets in AmericaThe US-based Chassidic movement known as Chabad Lubavitch will not insist that valuable Russian cultural objects in the US be confiscated in retaliation for Russia's refusal to give up the Schneerson Library collection.10:51 21.01.2013
U.S. verdict on Schneersohn collection has no legal value, Foreign MinistryThe Russian Foreign Ministry has stated that the verdict of the U.S. court on the Schneersohn collection is provocative, and null and void. Russia has been fined for not complying with the earlier verdict which ordered the country to transfer Rabbi Yosef Yitzchok Schneersohn's collection of books and manuscripts to Chabad, an American Hasidic movement.14:17 17.01.2013
US court orders Russia to pay $50k per day until it returns religious booksThe US District Court for the District of Columbia on Wednesday ordered the Russian government to pay $50,000 per day until it returns to the Hassidic community a massive collection of historic books seized during the process of Soviet nationalization.11:45 17.01.2013
US Supreme Court holds that houseboat is house, not boatThe US Supreme Court held Tuesday that for legal purposes, a houseboat is a house, not a boat. In so holding, the court reversed by a 7-2 majority the decisions of two lower federal courts, both of which had categorized the plaintiff's houseboat as a vessel.11:24 17.01.2013
Court re-divides the Slutskers’ assetsOn Tuesday the Moscow City Court revised the Presnensky District Court’s ruling on the division of assets between ex-Senator Vladimir Slutsker and his former wife Olga Slutsker.10:43 17.10.2012
$30 mln art collection at stake in divorce of former Russian senatorA district court suspended a ruling that would have stripped Olga Slutsker, ex-wife of former Russian senator Vladimir Slutsker, of her ex-husband's $30 million art collection, thus leaving the collection in her hands, the Federal Bailiff Service announced Thursday.17:30 11.10.2012