State Duma approves bill on visits for convicts in high security prisonsThe State Duma has approved in the second reading a bill on visits for criminals serving their term in stringent conditions in high security penal colonies and prisons.17:57 27.09.2017
High-ranking Crimean Tatar Majlis member receives prison term for separatismThe Simferopol District Court of Crimean Republic has sentenced deputy chairman of Majlis of Crimean Tatars, Ilmi Umerov, to two years in a penal colony for calls for separatism.13:33 27.09.2017
Moscow court upholds sentence for unauthorized rally participantThe Moscow City Court has upheld a 2.5-year prison sentence for Stanislav Zimovets, a participant of the unauthorized March 26 rally in Moscow, found guilty of attacking a police officer.11:47 25.09.2017
Convicted Pokemon Go player appeals his sentenceVideoblogger Ruslan Sokolovsky, who had received a suspended term for playing Pokemon Go in a church, filed an appeal with the Sverdlovsk Region Court against the sentence.13:57 18.09.2017
Ex-policeman’s suspended sentence for battering detainee changed to imprisonmentThe Supreme Court of Tatarstan has changed a suspended term of former police officer Marat Garayev to 4.5 years in prison for beating a person under arrest.14:59 08.09.2017
Moscow court sentences participant of June 12 rally to 2.5 years in prisonThe Tverskoy District Court of Moscow has sentenced a participant of June 12 rally in Moscow, Rasim Iskakov, to 2.5 years in a penal colony for violence against a law enforcement officer.15:30 06.09.2017
Defendants in case over illegal referendum to spend up to 4 years in prisonThe Moscow Tverskoy District Court has sentenced four members of the Initiative Group to Campaign for a Referendum for Responsible Government to terms varying from probation to four years in prison for organizing an extremist group.15:00 10.08.2017
Moscow court changes prison term of disabled convict Mamayev to fineThe Moscow City Court on Thursday ruled to change punishment for Anton Mamayev, a disabled and wheelchair-bound man who had previously been sentenced to 4.5 years in prison for armed robbery, to a 200,000-ruble (about $3,300) fine.14:49 03.08.2017
Russian Supreme Court increases sentence of Hizb-ut-Tahrir cell’s organizer by 3 yearsThe Supreme Court has increased the sentence of Crimean resident Ruslan Zeytullayev, who was convicted of establishing in the republic a cell of Hizb ut-Tahrir terrorist organization banned in Russia, from 12 to 15 years in prison.16:32 27.07.2017
Prosecutors appeal against release of Russian tycoon PolonskyProsecutors filed an appeal against release of Russian businessman Sergey Polonsky, who had been found guilty of large-scale embezzlement.13:29 27.07.2017
Moscow court pardons Master-bank former executiveThe Zamoskvoretsky District Court of Moscow has given Yevgeny Rogachyov, former chief of corporate business of Master-bank, a 4-year suspended sentence and pardoned him.18:02 26.07.2017
Victim appeals against sentence in Total CEO crash casePatrick Vervel, the husband of a stewardess, who died in the Total CEO airplane crash in 2014, has filed an appeal against sentence given to two defendants in the case.10:58 25.07.2017
Nemtsov’s daughter seeks to overturn sentence in politician murder caseThe daughter of prominent Russian opposition politician Boris Nemtsov murdered in February 2015 filed an appeal seeking to overturn the sentence given to five defendants in the case.16:59 21.07.2017
Moscow unauthorized rally participant gets 2.5 years in prisonThe Tverskoy District Court on Thursday sentenced a participant of the unauthorized March 26 rally in Moscow, Stanislav Zimovets, to 2.5 years in prison for the attack on a police officer.13:46 20.07.2017
Russian-Israeli blogger sentenced to 3 years in prison by Azerbaijan courtThe Baku Court on Grave Crimes in Azerbaijan on Thursday sentenced blogger Alexander Lapshin, who has citizenship of Russia and Israel, to 3 years in prison for illegal entrance to the breakaway Nagorno-Karabakh region. Lapshin has pleaded guilty to the brought charges.11:40 20.07.2017
Russian human rights ombudsman seeks release of disabled convictRussia’s High Commissioner for Human Rights Tatiana Moskalkova has filed a petition with the Moscow City Court seeking release of Anton Mamayev, a wheelchair person sentenced to 4.5 years in prison for armed robbery.13:48 13.07.2017
Moscow court does not have request for imprisonment of NavalnyMoscow's Simonovsky District Court has not received an official request from Russia’s Federal Penitentiary Service seeking to change suspended sentence for Russian opposition politician Alexey Navalny to imprisonment.19:27 11.07.2017
Pokemon Go player’s sentence reduced by more than one yearA court in Yekaterinburg on Friday reduced suspended sentence of videoblogger Ruslan Sokolovsky for playing Pokemon Go in a church from 3.5 years to 2 years and 3 months.12:31 07.07.2017
Supreme Court upholds sentence of Russian national for calls to terrorismRussia’s Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld a 15-year prison sentence and a 100,000-ruble fine given to a resident of the Karachay-Cherkessia Republic, Jesus (Kazbek) Bostanov, for calls to terrorism.12:53 04.07.2017
Sentence given to Moscow unauthorized rally participant takes effectThe Moscow City Court had upheld a sentence given to Yury Kuliy, who is to spend 8 months in a penal colony settlement for attacking a police officer at the unauthorized rally in Moscow on March 26.17:27 19.06.2017