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Pussy Riot's request to strike attorneys off roll to be considered on Aug. 8

The Board of the Moscow Bar Association will consider Pussy Riot member Yekaterina Samutsevich's request to strike her former attorneys Mark Feygin and Nikolai Polozov off the roll on August 8.

16:59 25.07.2013

Belarus court revokes ex-presidential candidate's sentence

A Belarusian court on Thursday revoked a two-year suspended sentence given to ex-presidential candidate Vladimir Neklyaev.

15:17 25.07.2013

Latvian politician to be prosecuted for opinion on Stalin's deportations

The criminal prosecution has been started in Latvia against Alfreds Rubiks, Latvian Socialist politician and the Member of the European Parliament, who ventured his opinion on Stalin's deportations in 1949.

14:48 25.07.2013

Aeroflot ordered to compensate flight teams more than $30 million

The Moscow City court ordered the Russian air carrier Aeroflot to pay more than a billion rubles ($30 million) to its flight teams for 2011-12 graveyard shifts, a Sheremetyevo Airport union spokesman told RAPSI on Thursday.

13:22 25.07.2013

ECHR rules that Russian charges against Khodorkovsky were in line with law

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) held Thursday that the charges filed against jailed former tycoons Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Platon Lebedev were brought in accordance with the law, but that their rights had been violated in connection with the court proceedings and their placement in remote Siberian penal colonies.

12:48 25.07.2013

Dismissal of Yandex's copyright lawsuit over Punto Switcher upheld

The Seventeenth Commercial Court of Appeals (Perm) has upheld a previous ruling to reject a lawsuit filed by Yandex that sought to prevent businessman Yevgeny Balabanov from distributing the Punto Switcher app owned by the company.

12:02 25.07.2013

Ukraine to extradite alleged Russian extremist - report

Ukraine's Prosecutor General's Office is prepared to extradite to Russia one Mikhail Volkov, who is suspected of being a part of the extremist group BORN, a right-wing nationalist group whose members are suspected of having been involved in several high-profile cases.

11:12 25.07.2013

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Russian courts allowed not to implement rulings of Europe's human rights court

Russia's Supreme Court proposed not to implement rulings of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) and the provisions of the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (ECHR).

12:53 09.12.2025

Redomiciliation stalls: How sanctions are shaping new practices for Russian companies

The mechanism for redomiciliating foreign companies to Russian jurisdiction, in effect since 2018, has recently encountered serious obstacles. Taking into account the background of sanctions-related restrictions introduced in 2022 through 2025, it has become extremely difficult to achieve the goal. The situation gave rise to the phenomenon of dual domicile and led to a rise in the number of new litigations, both in Russia and abroad.

12:32 09.12.2025

Soldiers jailed for killing US journalist Russell Bentley

A military court in Donetsk sentenced three soldiers to up to 12 years in prison for torturing and killing Russell Bentley, a 63-year-old U.S. national who collaborated with Sputnik news agency.

14:05 08.12.2025