Special Coverage

Criminal charges mount after discovery of children hidden underground

Legal consequences are mounting up in the aftermath of the shocking discovery by authorities last week of nearly 70 devotees of an obscure sect that had been living underground in total isolation from society for the past decade in the Russian region of Tatarstan.

18:57 09.08.2012

Pussy Riot's fourth day of trial - live updates

RAPSI is hosting live text coverage of the heavily anticipated Pussy Riot trial as it progresses.

09:45 02.08.2012

Pussy Riot's second day of trial - live updates

RAPSI is hosting a live text coverage of the heavily anticipated Pussy Riot trial as it progresses. The hooliganism trial of three members of Russian punk rock collective Pussy Riot began Monday in a Moscow court in a case that has attracted heated controversy worldwide.

10:00 31.07.2012

"Foreign agents" under Russia's NGO Law and its US doppelganger

President Putin signed off on a high-profile bill that will relegate politically active NGOs receiving funding from abroad to a registry of “foreign agents.” Once registered, these NGOs will face heightened scrutiny. They will be required to file regular disclosures with the government and to label all materials disseminated through major channels with their “foreign agent” status.

12:57 27.07.2012

New judicial salary scheme to cost taxpayers $2 bln

The Finance Ministry has proposed steps to increase the salaries of judges. If adopted, the legislation will require 65.7 billion rubles ($2 billion) from the federal budget for the judiciary in 2013.

12:12 18.07.2012

Top news

Russia imposes sanctions against members of U.S. President’s family

Russia has once more extended its retaliatory restriction list adding 25 Americans to it, including members of the family of the U.S. President Joe Biden.

12:24 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

President Putin signs law providing for legalization of parallel imports of goods

President of Russia Vladimir Putin has signed a bill providing for the legalization of parallel imports of goods into law.

17:56 28.06.2022