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Bill to empower prosecutors to represent Russia in ECHR to be heard as priority

The State Duma Anti-Corruption Committee on Tuesday held that a draft law empowering the Prosecutor General's Office to represent the interests of the Russian Federation in international and foreign courts should be discussed as a matter of priority.

12:49 02.06.2021

State Duma to discuss bill giving investigators right to conduct interviews by videolink

Draft amendments to the Russian Code of Criminal Procedure granting investigators the right to interview victims, specialists, experts and witnesses in criminal cases via videoconferencing means has been submitted to the lower house of the Russian parliament.

10:58 02.06.2021

Bill obliging foreign IT giants to open offices in Russia passes first stage in State Duma

The State Duma passed a bill obliging foreign IT companies to open offices in Russia in the first reading on Tuesday.

18:12 01.06.2021

Russian Administrative Offense Code to punish for authorizing operations with criminal properties

The Government Law-Making Commission has approved draft amendments to the Code of Administrative Offenses establishing significant fines for financial operations and transactions involving property obtained illegally.

17:46 01.06.2021

President Putin proposes to empower Prosecutor General's Office to represent Russia in ECHR

Russian President Vladimir Putin has submitted to the State Duma a bill seeking to empower the Prosecutor General's Office to represent the interests of the Russian Federation in international and foreign courts.

12:14 01.06.2021

Russian authorities to complicate rules for children traveling abroad with foreign parents

The Government Law-Making Commission has approved an initiative prohibiting a foreign parent from traveling abroad with children being Russian citizens in the absence of the consent of the other parent.

11:17 28.05.2021

State Duma Defense Committee backs ban on public identification of USSR with Third Reich

The State Duma's Defense Committee has supported a bill banning the public identification of the role of the USSR and Nazi Germany in World War II.

16:20 27.05.2021

State Duma committee backs decriminalization of inadvertent drug circulation violations

The State Duma Committee for State Construction and Legislation on Thursday recommended that lawmakers should pass a government bill on the humanization of criminal legislation in relation to persons who had committed violations of the rules for the circulation of narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances in the course of medical activities, which inadvertently entailed loss thereof.

15:09 27.05.2021

Government commission backs bill on Justice Ministry’s access to bank secrecy

The Government Law-Making Commission on Thursday approved an initiative giving the Justice Ministry a right to receive the banking secrecy information from credit organizations, according to Chairman of the Board of the Association of Lawyers of Russia Vladimir Gruzdev.

11:14 27.05.2021

Russian MPs back tougher punishment for arms trafficking

The State Duma passed a bill toughening punishment for illegal trafficking in weapons and explosives in the first reading on Tuesday.

15:59 26.05.2021

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Ookla LLC loses court challenge against fine for data storage violations

A Russian court said on Tuesday it had rejected a complaint filed by Ookla LLC against a 1-million ruble fine for not storing the personal data of Russian users in databases on Russian territory.

17:20 17.01.2023

Russian Justice Ministry vows to improve jail conditions

Russia's Ministry of Justice has unveiled its proposals aimed at amending the internal rules of pre-trial detention centers and correctional facilities.

15:29 13.01.2023

Bill on establishing Military Ombudsman post submitted to Russia’s State Duma

Lawmakers representing the New People party in the lower house of the Russian parliament have submitted to the State Duma a bill envisaging the introduction of the post of military ombudsman.

16:17 12.10.2022