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Prosecutor seeks 7 years in prison for FSB officers in bribery case

A prosecutor has asked the Moscow District Military Court to sentence former and acting officers of the Federal Security Service (FSB) charged with taking a 5-million-ruble bribe (about $85,000) from Turkish firm Esta Construction to 7 years in prison.

17:27 28.11.2017

Russian Guard Service General appeals sentence in corruption case

The Federal Guard Service (FSO) General Gennady Lopyrev, who had earlier been found guilty of taking 6.3 million rubles ($105,000) in bribes, appealed his prison sentence.

13:14 27.11.2017

Moscow court refuses to return Ulyukayev bribery case to prosecutors

Moscow’s Zamoskvoretsky District Court on Monday dismissed a motion to return a bribery case against former Russia’s economy minister Alexey Ulyukayev to prosecutors.

12:39 27.11.2017

Russian Guard Service General gets 10 years in prison for corruption

The Federal Guard Service (FSO) General Gennady Lopyrev has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for taking 6.3 million rubles ($105,000) in bribes.

10:40 17.11.2017

Ex-penitentiary deputy director put in detention on suspicion of taking $2 mln bribes

The Smolninsky District Court of St. Petersburg has ordered the detention of ex-deputy director of the Federal Penitentiary Service (FSIN) Nikolay Barinov suspected of taking about 110 million rubles (about $2 million) in bribes.

10:45 07.11.2017

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Third foreigner ordered to death challenges sentence in Supreme Court of DPR

Briton Aiden Aslin, who had been ordered to death along with two other foreign citizens in the Donetsk People’s Republic, challenged his sentence.

11:17 05.07.2022

Number of appeals to Russian children's ombudsman increased by 2% in 2021

The number of appeals to the Commissioner for Children's Rights in Russia Maria Lvova-Belova turned out to be by 2% more in 2021 as compared with the same period of the preceding year.

12:09 01.07.2022

State Duma adopts bill on retaliatory blocking of foreign media in Russia

The State Duma on Thursday passed a bill empowering Prosecutor General and his deputies to ban foreign mass media in Russia in response to hostile actions by foreign states regarding Russian media working abroad.

14:15 30.06.2022