Navalny’s defamation lawsuit against President’s spokesman adjourned for monthThe Presnensky District Court of Moscow on Tuesday decided to postpone Alexey Navalny’s defamation claim against the President’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov for a month.17:52 15.06.2021
No grounds found for release of ex-director of undesirable NGO from detention - courtThe Krasnodar Krai Court on Tuesday upheld detention of Andrey Pivovarov, a former director of Otkrytaya Rossia (OR), an organization registered in Great Britain and recognized in Russia as undesirable.15:33 15.06.2021
Expert of Russian Foreign Ministry gets 5 years in jail for $1 mln embezzlementThe Presnensky District Court of Moscow on Tuesday sentenced Natalya Agaltsova, an expert of the Currency and Finance Department of Russia’s Foreign Ministry to 5 years in penal colony for embezzling about $1 million.13:48 15.06.2021
Prosecutors challenge release of former fishery official from detention in fraud caseProsecution filed an appeal against the Moscow City Court’s decision on the replacement of detention of x-advisor of a head of the Federal Fishery Agency Yury Khokhlov charged with attempted fraud in the amounr of $7 milllion with house arrest, attorney Igor Zuber told RAPSI on Tuesday.11:20 15.06.2021
Ex-head of Togliattikhimbank Popov sentenced to 7.5 years of imprisonmentFormer Chairman of the Board of Togliattikhimbank Alexander Popov has been sentenced to 7.5 years in a maximum security colony and a fine of 500 million rubles ($7 million).10:42 15.06.2021
Third foreigner ordered to death challenges sentence in Supreme Court of DPRBriton 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
Russia’s State Duma backs creation of extremist materials databaseThe lower house of parliament, the State Duma, adopted a bill to create a specialized information database of extremist materials in a final third reading on Tuesday.13:24 05.07.2022
Number of appeals to Russian children's ombudsman increased by 2% in 2021The 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