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National Center of Sport Arbitration starts hearing labor and anti-doping cases

The National Center of Sport Arbitration has become fully operational in 2021 and is ready to hear sports and anti-doping cases. Applications from athletes, coaches and staff members will be accepted free of charge.

19:39 21.05.2021

Russian Supreme Court upholds Ukrainian ex-minister’s sentence for terrorist calls

The Military Collegium of the Russian Supreme Court on Friday upheld sentence passed on ex-defense minister of Ukraine Anatoly Gritsenko for calls through media to blast Russian trains and cars in absentia.

17:36 21.05.2021

Russian Justice Ministry to complete Prison of the Future project by 2024

It is planned that the Prison of the Future project envisaging development of a complex facility combining a pretrial detention center, correctional institutions of different types, a prison, courtrooms, offices of prosecutors and lawyers, sports grounds and a production base is to be implemented in Russia by 2024, Deputy Justice Minister Yevgeniy Zabarchuk said at The Modernization of National Prison Estates discussion session at the St.

15:00 21.05.2021

E-justice used in over 400,000 cases examined in Russia

In 2020, electronic justice systems were used when considering more than 400,000 cases in Russian courts, Alexey Solokhin, Counselor to the Department of Systematization of Legislation and Analysis of Judicial Practice of the Russian Supreme Court said at the Digitalization and Cybersecurity in Courts track of the St. Petersburg International Legal Forum (SPBILF) 9 ¾.

13:44 21.05.2021

Ex-owner of Promsvyazbank challenges seizure of assets worth $1.5 billion

Ex-owner of Promsvyazbank Dmitry Ananyev has lodged an appeal against court refusal to overturn seizure of his monetary assets and other property worth over 113 billion rubles ($1.5 billion).

12:57 21.05.2021

Ex-top managers of Otkritie must pay $4 mln to bank - court

The Moscow District Commercial Court has dismissed cassation appeals lodged by former top managers of the Financial Corporation Otkritie against recovery of 289.5 billion rubles (about $4 million at the current exchange rate) from them in favor of the bank.

11:40 21.05.2021

Former owners of VIM Airlines declared bankrupt

The Moscow Commercial Court has declared ex-president of VIM Airlines Rashid Mursekayev and his wife Svetlana bankrupt.

10:29 21.05.2021

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Russia and Iran join forces for judicial cooperation

Russia's Supreme Court Chairman Vyacheslav Lebedev and First Deputy Head of Iran’s Judiciary Mohammad Mosaddeq have reached an agreement on cooperation and mutual assistance with the digital transformation of the legal systems of both countries.

12:44 18.08.2022

Russian National AI Development Center to be launched in September

The National Artificial Intelligence Center will be launched in September, Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Chernyshenko said addressing the International military-technical forum Army-2022.

10:10 18.08.2022

Court to hear Deripaska’s $33 mln defamation suit against Tinkov on August 31

A court in Russia's southern Krasnodar region is expected to hold a hearing of a defamation lawsuit filed by Russian aluminium tycoon Oleg Deripaska’s against businessman Oleg Tinkov and Meta Platforms Inc. on August 31.

14:16 16.08.2022