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Telecoms giant VimpelCom fined $7,000 for SMS message spam

The Moscow Office of Russia's Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) has fined Telecommunications giant VimpelCom 450,000 rubles ($7,000) for dissemination of SMS message advertising.

18:12 12.09.2016

Russian regional ex-minister gets 7.5 years in prison for corruption

A court in Stavropol, a city in southwestern Russia, has found former Education Minister of the region, Vasily Lyamin, guilty of taking a bribe and sentenced him to 7.5 years in prison.

16:45 12.09.2016

Bankruptcy petition against large Russian industrial company to be reviewed on October 5

The Sverdlovsk Region Commercial Court will review a validity of bankruptcy petition filed by the Central Boiler and Turbine Institution (CKTI) company against large industrial corporation “Uralvagonzavod”, on October 5.

14:39 12.09.2016

Moscow school shooter’s parents to pay $39,000 to victim’s family

The Moscow City Court has upheld a lower court’s ruling ordering parents of school student Sergey Gordeev, who took his classmates hostage and shot two people in February 2014, to pay 2.5 million rubles (about $39,000) to the family of the teen’s victim, geography teacher Andrei Kirillov.

13:50 12.09.2016

Russian Supreme Court upholds cancellation of businessman Ismailov’s bankruptcy

Russia’s Supreme Court has upheld rulings of lower courts cancelling bankruptcy of prominent Russian businessman Ismailov.

10:48 12.09.2016

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

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