Special Coverage

New criminal investigation procedure: more rights and opportunities

Today’s criminal investigation procedure may soon be substantially revised, according to a president-initiated bill.

16:00 12.03.2012

Russia’s political system heads for reform

The lower house of Russia’s Parliament, the State Duma, has taken its first step toward reforming the political system by adopting three presidential bills in the first reading.

14:38 05.03.2012

Control over MPs’ earnings ineffective

As of this year, members of parliament from both houses and regional legislators must submit income information to parliamentary commissions. Reports must contain information about officials' income and assets – as well as those of their family. However, it is clear that such measures of control will be useless if for no other reason than because the controllers and the controlled are the same people.

09:02 15.02.2012

Viktor Bout: My case is political, rather than criminal

Media have dubbed Russian citizen Viktor Bout an arms baron. He is now in jail in New York without any hope for an acquittal. His motions have been denied and the court will hand down his sentence on March 12. Bout spoke with RIA Novosti correspondent Larisa Sayenko about his case and shared his views on the situation in the United States and Russia.

18:49 13.02.2012

Supreme Commercial Court accepts investment fund's appeal in Magnitsky case

The Supreme Commercial Court has registered an appeal against the court ruling denying the Hermitage Capital investment fund's subsidiaries ownership of three companies that were allegedly used to drain $178.6 million from the state budget.

10:34 08.02.2012

Top news

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