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Russia’s HRC works on bill broadening use of mediation in criminal proceedings

The Presidential Human Rights Council (HRC) is to present a bill aimed to boost the use of mediation in criminal proceedings.

15:49 20.02.2020

Business Ombudsman works on proposals empowering jurors to try economic crimes cases

Russia’s Business Rights Commissioner Boris Titov has said at a press-conference that his office is developing amendments to the Criminal Code and the Code of Criminal Procedure in line with the proposals of the Supreme Court empower jurors to examine economic crimes cases.

10:26 20.02.2020

Navalny turns to Russia’s Supreme Court in defamation dispute with Crimean meat plant

Alexey Navalny has lodged a petition challenging order to remove and refute information on the Crimean meat processing plant Druzhba Narodov distributed by the blogger with Russia’s Supreme Court.

17:15 19.02.2020

Supreme Court Chair defines criteria of charging entrepreneurs with creating organized gangs

Charges related to organization of and membership in criminal associations were to be brought against businesspersons only if such criminal societies were established specifically with the aim to commit serious and especially serious crimes.

16:17 11.02.2020

Russia’s Supreme Court proposes to empower jurors to try economic crimes cases

The Supreme Court of Russia proposes to empower jurors to examine economic crimes cases.

15:34 11.02.2020

TOAZ case defendants suspected of attempted bribery of Russian Supreme Court

A criminal case over attempted bribery on an especially large scale (part 3 of Article 30 and part 5 of Article 291 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) has been instituted against the beneficiary of Togliattiazot PJSC (TOAZ) Sergey Makhlai, the former chairman of the board of Togliattikhimbank Alexander Popov and the former head of the TOAZ security service Oleg Antoshin. According to the investigation, the suspects intended to bribe judges of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation for canceling the decision to recover tax arrears from TOAZ.

15:40 30.01.2020

IKEA appeals denial of $1.3 mln suit against ex-wannabe president in Russian Supreme Court

IKEA's Russian division IKEA Mos has challenged refusal to recover 79.5 million rubles ($1.3 million at the current exchange rate) from ex-presidential candidate Pavel Grudinin's TT Development company in the Supreme Court of Russia.

10:58 22.01.2020

Supreme Court next to lower instances refuses to close notorious Moscow Region landfill

The Supreme Court of the Russian Federation will not reconsider refusal to shut down a notorious Moscow Region’s solid waste landfill Yadrovo as was requested by the administration of Volokolamsk town.

11:00 21.01.2020

Russia’s Supreme Court upholds blocking of positive publications about drug consumers

Russia’s Supreme Court has found lawful the criteria state agencies use to disallow publications promoting positive images of drug consumers.

15:56 20.01.2020

Russian lawyer Tretyakov denied reconsideration of $4.5 mln recovery ruling

The Supreme Court of Russia has dismissed an application filed by Chairman of Tretyakov & Partners law firm Igor Tretyakov involved in the Roscosmos embezzlement case seeking to overturn a ruling to recover 308 million rubles from ($4.5 million) from him.

11:43 13.01.2020

Suspension of $4 bln claim against ex-Transaero owners upheld by Russian Supreme Court

The Supreme Court of Russia has upheld suspension of a 249-billion-ruble lawsuit (nearly $4 billion) of VTB bank against Transaero air carrier’s founder Alexander Pleshakov, his wife and mother.

10:50 10.01.2020

Russian Supreme Court upholds fine against Twitter for breaching data storage rules

The Supreme Court of Russia has upheld a 3,000-ruble fine (about $50) imposed on Twitter for storing data of Russian users abroad.

15:26 31.12.2019

Russian Supreme Court upholds 20-year sentence given GTA gang life-termer escape

The Supreme Court of Russia on Thursday upheld a 20-year sentence of a member of the infamous GTA gang Khazratkhon Dodokhonov for escape during convoying to court.

17:12 19.12.2019

Russian Supreme Court denies return of Briullov painting to German collector

The Supreme Court of Russia on Thursday granted a cassation appeal filed by prosecution against lower courts’ rulings to return the painting by prominent artist Karl Briullov entitled ‘Christ in the Sepulcher' to German collector Alexander Pevzner.

14:28 19.12.2019

Russian Supreme Court upholds 9-year jail term of ex-security service major for murder

The Supreme Court of the Russian Federation has upheld a 9-year prison sentence given to ex-major of the Federal Security Service (FSB) Pavel Sterlyagov for murder under the influence of alcohol.

17:24 05.12.2019

Russian Supreme Court upholds defense official's jailing in Arctic survey embezzlement case

Russia’s Supreme Court on Monday rejected an appeal filed by the Defense Ministry’s navigation and oceanography department chief Sergey Travin against a 7-year prison sentence for embezzling 70 million rubles ($1 million) allocated for surveying shelf limits in the Arctic Ocean.

12:38 02.12.2019

Russian Supreme Court upholds dismissal of $1.2 mln claim against ex-Transaero owner

The Supreme Court of Russia has upheld denial of recovery of nearly 81 million rubles (about $1.2 million) from ex-Transaero founder Alexander Pleshakov and his family.

17:44 29.11.2019

Refusal to close notorious landfill in Moscow Region challenged in Russian Supreme Court

The administration of the Moscow Region’s town of Volokolamsk have filed an appeal with the Supreme Court of Russia against lower courts’ refusal to shut down a notorious solid waste landfill Yadrovo.

10:49 25.11.2019

Supreme Court of Russia vacates ex-penitentiary official’s acquittal in murder case

The Russian Supreme Court has overturned acquittal of the former deputy chief of the Federal Penitentiary Service’s (FSIN) St. Petersburg and Leningrad Region directorate Sergey Moiseyenko in a case over organization of assassination against his subordinate.

18:00 06.11.2019

Il est nécessaire de créer un climat de confiance entre la Cour et les juridictions nationales

Le 26 avril à Strasbourg au Palais des droits de l’homme s’est tenu une rencontre à laquelle ont participé le Président de la Cour européenne des droits de l’homme Guido Raimondi, le greffier de la Cour Roderick Liddell, le rédacteur en chef de la revue « Droits de l’homme. Jurisprudence de la Cour européenne des droits de l’homme » Vitaly Portnov et la rédactrice du développement Anastasia Abakumova.

10:30 05.11.2019