Trial & Litigation

Kaspersky Lab challenges recovery of $575,000 tax arrears

Kaspersky Lab has filed a cassation appeal against a commercial court’s ruling ordering the company to pay corporate income tax in the amount of 41.6 million rubles (about $575,000 at the current exchange rate).

11:59 07.10.2021

Detention of CEO of hypersonic research institute in treason case extended until winter

Moscow’s Lefortovsky District Court has extended detention of CEO and Chief Structural Engineer of the Scientific Research Institute of Hypersonic Alexander Kuranov, who stands charged with treason, until December 11.

10:49 07.10.2021

Moscow court upholds $83,000 fines imposed on Facebook

Moscow’s Tagansky District Court on Wednesday upheld administrative fines worth 6 million rubles ($83,000) imposed on Facebook social network.

18:03 06.10.2021

Investigators seek to detain partner of investigated Sberbank vice-president

Investigators on Wednesday lodged a motion seeking to place Artur Stetsenko, the common-law husband of vice-president of Russia's Sberbank Marina Rakova investigated as part of a case over large-scale embezzlement, in detention.

17:26 06.10.2021

The Insider editor-in-chief ordered to pay over $2K to Dutch journalist for libel

Moscow’s Cheremushkinsky District Court on Wednesday ordered the editor-in-chief of The Insider (recognized in Russia as a media performing functions of a foreign agent) Roman Dobrokhotov to pay Dutch journalist Max van der Werff 156,000 rubles (over $2,000) upon the latter’s defamation lawsuit.

14:33 06.10.2021

Prosecutor seeks to restrict Doctors Alliance head’s freedom for 20 months

A prosecutor on Wednesday demanded to put Anastasia Vasilyeva, the leader of medical workers' union Alyans Vrachei (Doctors' Alliance, an organization recognized by the Russian Justice Ministry as a foreign agent), under restraint to 20 months in a case over breaching sanitary norms at an unauthorized rally.

13:40 06.10.2021

Appeal against ex-Inter RAO board member’s for espionage pending in Supreme Court

The Supreme Court of Russia will consider a cassation appeal filed by ex-board member of Inter RAO energy holding Karina Tsurkan against her long prison sentence for espionage on October 14.

12:14 06.10.2021

Wanted vice-president of Russia's Sberbank arrested on embezzlement charges

Vice-president of Russia's Sberbank Marina Rakova, who had earlier absconded the investigative authorities, was arrested as part of a case over large-scale embezzlement.

11:52 06.10.2021

Moscow court to proceed with Communist Party’s lawsuits against e-voting results

Moscow’s Presnensky District Court has set October 7 as a date for the talk on 15 lawsuits filed by the Russian Communist Party and candidates for State Duma lawmakers objecting the results of electronic voting.

10:41 06.10.2021

Police to set reasonable term of ban to enter Russia for comic Mirzalizade

The Zamoskvoretsky District Court of Moscow on Tuesday overturned designation of the stay in Russia of stand-up comic Idrak Mirzalizade undesirable for life and ordered the Interior Ministry to set a reasonable term of the entry ban.

17:33 05.10.2021

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Russian President signs decree on external debt payment

President of Russia Vladimir Putin has signed a decree establishing a new temporary procedure of payment of the country’s foreign debt. The document was published on the official website of legal information.

17:20 22.06.2022

Bill on liability for digital rights violation submitted to Russia’s State Duma

Chairman of the State Duma Committee on the Financial Market Anatoly Aksakov has introduced a bill to supplement the national Code of Administrative Offenses with an article on the violation of digital rights before the lower house of Russia's parliament.

12:45 23.06.2022

Environmental violations up in Russia by almost 3 times — Supreme Court head

The number of cases related to violations of the environmental legislation has increased in Russia by almost 3 times over the past 10 years, the Supreme Court Chairman Vyacheslav Lebedev said during the presidium meeting on Friday.

15:36 24.06.2022