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Moscow court fines image sharing platform Pinterest $38k over data storage

A magistrate judge in Moscow on Tuesday fined image sharing and social media service Pinterest 2 million rubles (about $38,000) over failure to localize Russian users’ personal data in the Russian Federation.

14:45 28.06.2022

Russian Supreme Court pushes for streamlining procedures governing judges’ career advances

A plenum of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation has proposed to submit to the State Duma a bill that would allow judges to be assigned a higher grade without taking into account the place of work of the judge and without observing the sequence of assignment of grades.

13:26 28.06.2022

Streaming company Twitch fined $38k for refusal to localize data of Russian citizens

Video streaming service Twitch Interactive was fined 2 million rubles (about $37,7k at the time of writing) on Tuesday for refusal to locate personal data of Russian users in the Russian Federation, the Moscow Tagansky District Court’s press service told RAPSI.

12:44 28.06.2022

Environmental violations up in Russia by almost 3 times — Supreme Court head

The number of cases related to violations of the environmental legislation has increased in Russia by almost 3 times over the past 10 years, the Supreme Court Chairman Vyacheslav Lebedev said during the presidium meeting on Friday.

15:36 24.06.2022

Russian woman sentenced to 11 years behind bars for abetting terrorism

The South District Military Court has sentenced Russian national Darya Bolgova to 11 years in penal colony for abetting terrorism and participating in a terrorist organization.

10:25 23.06.2022

Russian prosecutors seek qualification of WWII massacres in Belgorod region as genocide

The Russian Prosecutor General's Office has petitioned the Belgorod Regional Court to recognize the massacres committed by the Nazis on the territory of the Belgorod Region during the Great Patriotic War as war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide of the Soviet people.

17:40 22.06.2022

Ex-Russian ecology official Oleg Mitvol pleads guilty to fraud

Oleg Mitvol, a former official of Russia’s environment agency Rosprirodnadzor, charged with especially serious fraud, has made a plea bargain.

11:09 21.06.2022

Crimean Supreme Court to hear on genocide during Great Patriotic War

The Supreme Court of Crimea is to start considering the case of genocide of the Soviet people during the years of the occupation of the peninsula during the Great Patriotic War on June 27.

18:13 20.06.2022

Russian court upholds nationwide ban on Meta

The Moscow City Court upheld on Monday the prohibition of Meta Platforms Inc in Russia for extremist activity.

17:38 20.06.2022

Ex-official of Russian Aerospace Forces jailed for 5 years for corruption

The Moscow Garrison Military Court on Monday sentenced ex-head of the Russian Aerospace Forces’ radar troops Andrey Koban to 5 years behind bars as part of a bribery case.

12:32 20.06.2022

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Russia bars entry to its national territory to 87 high-ranking citizens of Canada

The Russian authorities have imposed personal sanctions on another 87 high-ranking Canadian citizens, blocking their entry into the country, according to the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

19:37 22.09.2022

President Putin signs decree on partial mobilization in Russia

Russian President Vladimir Putin has declared a partial mobilization in the country from 21 September.

13:33 21.09.2022

DPR People's Council adopts law on referendum as to region's accession to Russia

The People's Council of the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) has adopted the law on a referendum on the issue of the region’s accession to the Russian Federation on Tuesday; the document is a legislative initiative of DPR Head Denis Pushilin.

15:45 20.09.2022