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Cyprus court moves Potanin asset freeze hearing to September

A district court of Limassol, Cyprus will review the claim filed by wife of Norilsk Nickel CEO Vladimir Potanin, Natalya Potanina, in which she demands a freeze of 50% of all assets as a part of her divorce suit, her attorney Phillip Ryabchenko told RAPSI on Monday.

16:48 02.06.2014

Prosecutor General’s Office seeks tougher punishment for bribing arbitrators

Russian Prosecutor General’s Office is advocating a law that would strengthen punishment for bribing arbitrators.

16:10 02.06.2014

Ukraine to demand $268,5 for Russian gas in the arbitration case

Ukrainian Naftogaz in its lawsuit against Russian monopoly Gazprom will demand a fixed price of $268,5 per 1,000 cubic metres of gas, Ukrainian Justice Minister Pavel Petryenko told RIA Novosti on Monday.

15:30 02.06.2014

Four members of BORN extremist group to take stand in jury trial

The trial of four members of a notorious extremist group known as Militant Organization of Russian Nationalists (BORN) will be held publicly.

14:45 02.06.2014

McDonald’s appeal in contractual obligations dispute to be heard on July 7

The Tenth Commercial Court of Appeals on July 7 will consider an appeal filed by McDonald’s against a ruling ordering it to pay about 8 million rubles ($230,314) in debt and penalties to six Russian businessmen for failing to make lease payments, the court told RAPSI on Monday.

14:12 02.06.2014

Investigation into Zapadny bank hostage incident completed

Investigation into the case against Aleksander Vdovin who took hostages in the Zapadny bank office in the city of Belgorod in April has been completed and transferred to the Prosecutor’s Office for indictment.

13:44 02.06.2014

Over 25,000 convicts released under presidential amnesty in Russia

Over 25,000 convicts have been already released in Russia in accordance with the presidential amnesty, which has been arranged to coincide with the 20th anniversary of the Constitution of the Russian Federation, member of Russia’s Civic Chamber Maria Kannabikh announced Monday during the All-Russian video conference on the executive bodies’ cooperation with the civic institutions in the field of the convicts’ rights protection.

12:55 02.06.2014

RIGroup CEO Dmitry Kotlyarenko arrested in absentia - report

A Moscow court has issued an arrest warrant in absentia for Dmitry Kotlyarenko, who fled to the United States after his release on parole in Russia in a 10-billion-ruble ($288 million) fraud case. Investigators believe that former Finance Minister of the Moscow Region Alexei Kuznetsov was also involved in the large-scale fraud.

12:06 02.06.2014

Russian social media mogul Pavel Durov sues ex-partners over Telegram messenger

The founder of Russian social network VKontakte, Pavel Durov, has filed a suit with a US court in which he accuses his former partners at United Capital Partners (UCP) of fraud and attempted extortion with respect to the Telegram messenger.

10:33 02.06.2014

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