Judge who sent Tymoshenko to prison put on wanted listThe Ukrainian Prosecutor General’s Office has put Pechersky District Court Judge Rodion Kireyev on the wanted list, Ukrainian news agency LigaBiznesInform announced on Friday. Kireyev was the judge who pronounced ex-Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko guilty in the well-publicized “gas” case.14:06 20.06.2014
Prosecutor opposes mitigation of eight 2012 Moscow riots activists’ sentenceDuring the trial at the Moscow City Court the prosecutor asked to uphold the verdict in the 2012 Bolotnaya riots case for eight activists, RAPSI reports from the courtroom.16:09 19.06.2014
Former director of EBRD bank gets 5-year suspended sentenceThe Simonovsky District Court of Moscow on Monday handed down a five-year suspended sentence with a five-year probation period to Yelena Kotova, Russian former top representative at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) who has been charged with seeking a bribe of $1.4 million, RAPSI reports from the courtroom.15:44 16.06.2014
Chinese court sentences 3 to death for terror attack at Tiananmen GateA Chinese court sentenced three people to death for planning and participating in a last year’s terror attack at Tiananmen Gate, according to official Twitter account of Chinese Central Television.11:13 16.06.2014
Bolotnaya Square riot convict released from mental hospitalThe Chekhov City Court of the Moscow Region has released Mikhail Kosenko, who was convicted in the May 6, 2012 Bolotnaya Square riot case, from a mental hospital to continue treatment in an outpatient clinic, a RAPSI correspondent reports from courtroom.15:01 11.06.2014
Former Russian Microsoft employee sentenced in US to three months in prisonFederal District Court in Seattle on Tuesday sentenced former Microsoft employee Alex Kibkalo, who was charged with stealing and then leaking company secrets, to three months in prison, according to the court documents.10:50 11.06.2014
Politkovskaya murder mastermind and killer sentenced to lifeThe Moscow City Court on Monday sentenced Lom-Ali Gaitukayev and Rustam Makhmudov to life in prison for the murder of journalist Anna Politkovskaya, RAPSI reports from the courtroom.12:20 09.06.2014
Ex-FSB officers sentenced for Gutenberg Bible theftThe Moscow District Military Court on Thursday convicted three former Federal Security Service's (FSB) officers for stealing the Gutenberg Bible, a rare 15th century book, from the Moscow State University, the court told RAPSI.14:36 05.06.2014
Politkovskaya murder convict seeks suspended sentenceThe attorney for former police officer Dmitry Pavlyuchenkov – convicted of murdering journalist Anna Politkovskaya – has filed a petition with the Moscow City Court to suspend his sentence.11:43 04.06.2014
Police attack couple sentenced to 18 and 12.5 years in prisonThe Moscow City Court on Friday found Magomed and Khalimat Rasulov guilty of attacking the police officers at the Matveyevsky market in Moscow and sentenced them to 18 and 12.5 years respectively, RAPSI reports from the courtroom.15:54 30.05.2014
Supreme Court issues ruling explaining the term “completed sentence”Russia’s Supreme Curt has recommended that judges only consider those who have finished their prison term as having completed their sentence.12:56 29.05.2014
Convicted in Aeroflot DDoS-attack case released on parolePavel Vrublevsky, the co-founder and owner of ChronoPay, one of Russia's largest e-payment providers, has been released on parole, his spokesman Denis Dunyushkin told RAPSI Tuesday.14:41 27.05.2014
Russian lawmaker sentenced to 5 years for attempted fraudThe Moscow City Court on Monday sentenced state lawmaker Konstantin Shirshov to five years in prison for attempted EUR 7.5 million fraud, RAPSI reports from the courtroom.17:09 26.05.2014
Man who tried to poison Obama gets 25 years - reportA US Court sentenced James Everett Dutschke, a sender of poisonous letters to US senators and President Barack Obama, to 25 years in prison, AP reports.13:36 20.05.2014
Prosecution requests 18 and 13 years for police attack coupleProsecutors have requested that the Moscow City Court sentence Magomed and Khalimat Rasulov to 18 and 13 years respectively in a police attack case following an incident at the Matveyevsky market in Moscow, RAPSI reports from courtroom.16:21 19.05.2014
Egyptian court sentences 126 Muslim Brotherhood supportersAn Egyptian court on Sunday sentenced 126 Muslim Brotherhood supporters to 10 years in prison each for assaulting police, damaging public property and inciting violence last summer.10:12 19.05.2014
Seven women found guilty to beating disabled girl in Moscow RegionThe Naro-Fominsk Town Court on Tuesday found seven young women guilty of battering a disabled girl in the Moscow Region, the court’s spokesperson told RAPSI.16:20 13.05.2014
Israeli ex-prime minister Olmert to serve six years for briberyThe Tel Aviv District Court has sentenced former prime minister of Israel Ehud Olmert to six years in prison for accepting bribes in exchange for lobbying the construction of the Holyland luxury residential project in Jerusalem.13:40 13.05.2014
Pussy Riot members appeal sentence in Supreme CourtThe sentence of controversial Pussy Riot punk band members has been appealed again. The band member Yekaterina Samutsevich has filed with Russia's Supreme Court a supervisory appeal against the verdict, the court’s press office told RAPSI Tuesday.10:27 13.05.2014
Infamous sex offender from Moscow market sentenced to 14 years in prisonMoscow’s Dorogomilovsky District Court has found Magomed Magomedov guilty of sexually assaulting an underage girl and sentenced him to 14 years in a maximum security penal colony.16:40 07.05.2014