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One more municipal lawmaker restricted of liberty for sanitary breaches at illegal rally

The Preobrazhensky District Court of Moscow on Monday sentenced municipal lawmaker Dmitry Baranovsky to 1.5 years of restriction of liberty as part of a case over violation of sanitary rules during an unauthorized rally held in the city in January.

15:08 30.08.2021

Stay of stand-up comic guilty of xenophobic jokes declared undesirable in Russia

Russia’s Interior Ministry has designated the stay in Russia of stand-up comic Idrak Mirzalizade, who had been earlier placed in administrative detention for 10 days for insulting Russian people on account of ethnic descent, undesirable.

14:33 30.08.2021

Case opened over organization of banned movement’s cell in Moscow detention center

Investigators have initiated probe into the organization of a cell of the banned movement Arestantskoye Ugulovnoye Yedinstvo / Criminal Unity of Inmates (AUE) in Moscow’s detention center Matrosskaya Tishina.

13:25 30.08.2021

Lawyer Tretyakov again denied review of collection of $4 mln from him

The Moscow Regional Commercial Court has repeatedly dismissed an application filed by lawyer Igor Tretyakov seeking to reconsider a ruling on the recovery of 308.5 million rubles ($4 million) from him review on new or newly discovered facts.

12:47 30.08.2021

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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