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Navalny accused of creating NGO infringing on citizens' personality and rights

The Russian Investigative Committee has charged Alexey Navalny with creating a non-profit organization that infringes upon the personality and rights of citizens.

17:40 11.08.2021

Moscow court to continue jury selection in Arashukovs’ case in September

The Moscow City Court will continue jury selection in a case against Raul Arashukov, a former adviser to the head of a Gazprom subsidiary, and his son Rauf Arashukov, on September 13.

16:11 11.08.2021

Ex-CEO of state enterprise gets 4 years in jail for bribing antimonopoly officer

The Moscow Babushkinsky District Court has sentenced former head of a Dagestani state development enterprise Shamil Kadiev to 4 years in a strict regime colony for bribing ex-head of the Republican Directorate of the Federal Antimonopoly Service Kubasai Kubasayev with a Hublot wristwatch and a hunting rifle.

15:54 11.08.2021

Stand-up comic loses appeal against sentence for xenophobic jokes about Russians

The Moscow City Court on Wednesday dismissed an appeal filed by stand-up comic Idrak Mirzalizade, who had been placed in administrative detention for 10 days for insulting Russian people on account of ethnic descent, against his sentence.

13:35 11.08.2021

Russia's human rights commissioner received over 8,000 hotline calls in 2021

Since the beginning of this year Russia’s High Commissioner for Human Rights Tatiana Moskalkova has received 8.246 calls via hotline.

10:59 11.08.2021

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Russian state depository challenges sanctions in European Court of Justice

Russia’s National Settlement Depository has filed a lawsuit at the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg to overturn European Union sanctions imposed on it, the NSD said on Friday.

14:57 12.08.2022

Three detained over Promsvyazbank embezzlement allegations

A Moscow court ordered media technology expert Olga Arkharova, PR specialist Inna Churilova and journalist Alexandra Bayazitova to be kept in custody until October 7 over alleged extortion from Promsvyazbank.

11:35 11.08.2022

Ex-St. Petersburg lawmaker sentenced to 9 years in prison on bribery charges

Roman Koval, a former lawmaker of the St. Petersburg Legislative Assembly, was sentenced to 9 years in prison for large-scale corruption.

15:18 11.08.2022