Law & Legislation

Government brings bill on unified list of socially oriented NGOs before State Duma

The Government has submitted a bill consolidating existing registers of socially oriented NGOs and NGOs of the same kind mostly affected by the coronavirus pandemic to Russia’s lower house of parliament.

15:12 05.03.2021

Russian President welcomes bill on use of geolocation data in search for missing persons

President Vladimir Putin has backed an initiative permitting the use of geolocation data in order to facilitate search for missing persons.

14:53 05.03.2021

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Third foreigner ordered to death challenges sentence in Supreme Court of DPR

Briton Aiden Aslin, who had been ordered to death along with two other foreign citizens in the Donetsk People’s Republic, challenged his sentence.

11:17 05.07.2022

Russia’s State Duma backs creation of extremist materials database

The lower house of parliament, the State Duma, adopted a bill to create a specialized information database of extremist materials in a final third reading on Tuesday.

13:24 05.07.2022

Number of appeals to Russian children's ombudsman increased by 2% in 2021

The number of appeals to the Commissioner for Children's Rights in Russia Maria Lvova-Belova turned out to be by 2% more in 2021 as compared with the same period of the preceding year.

12:09 01.07.2022