YouTube blogger Yury Dud fined $1,400 for drug propaganda
Moscow's Zyuzinsky District Court on Wednesday fined prominent Russian YouTube blogger Yury Dud 100,000 rubles ($1,400) in a drug propaganda case.
Cassation instance upholds seizure of $4 billion assets of ex-Promsvyazbank owner
The Moscow District Commercial Court has dismissed a cassation appeal of the financial manager of assets belonging to the former owner of Promsvyazbank Dmitry Ananyev against the seizure of property worth 282.2 billion rubles ($4 billion).
Case of Rusaviainvest sanctioned by US stuck in limbo in court
Lawyers are studying the situation with the Rusaviainvest case in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, which for more than a year has showed no sign of progress due to the problem of accessing classified information because of the pandemic.
Over 400,000 materials with prohibited content removed since January by Russian regulator
In the period from January through September this year, more than 427,000 materials with prohibited content were blocked on the Internet.
Police report decrease in street crime rate in Russia
The total number of crimes committed in public areas downed by 5.4% in Russia as of the first nine months of 2021.
Prosecutors insist on detention of higher institution rector involved in embezzlement case
The Moscow Prosecutor’s Office filed an appeal seeking to overturn a court ruling dismissing a detention plea and ordering the rector of the Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences (Shaninka) Sergey Zuyev to be put under house arrest in a 21-million-ruble (about $300,000) embezzlement case.
Russian court bans Men’s State organization
The Nizhny Novgorod Regional Court has granted a prosecutors’ claim to prohibit the activities of Men’s State non-governmental organization throughout Russia.
Preferential calculation of pretrial detention terms applies only to detained persons
The preferential rules for counting the time spent in a pretrial detention centers do not apply to those sentenced to imprisonment in general regime colonies or colony-settlements, if they are transferred to pretrial detention centers in connection with some other criminal case and are not taken into custody.
Ex-Inter RAO board member to serve sentence for espionage in Altai
A former board member of Inter RAO energy holding Karina Tsurkan convicted of espionage has been transferred to a penal colony in the Altai Krai, her attorney Anna Stavitskaya has told RAPSI.
Prosecutors seek harsher sentence for man convicted of theatre construction embezzlement
Prosecutors seek to impose a stricter punishment on Maxim Korneyev, who has received suspended sentence for the embezzlement of funds allocated as part of the Federal Target Program “Culture of Russia” for a new building design of the Maly Drama Theatre.