Special Coverage

TI Russia to monitor state corporations’ compliance with corruption policies

In 2011, Transparency International Russia will verify the effectiveness of anti-corruption measures carried out by all Russian state-run corporations.

10:12 24.10.2011

Russia needs an effective and humane criminal policy

In the past 15 years, about 15 million people have been convicted in Russia, or one in every six or seven adult citizens. This state of affairs is deforming society. The amount of money that the state is pouring into the upkeep of prisons is about half the amount that goes towards schools.

14:38 21.10.2011

Courts fail to comply with president’s amendments, lawyers say

The Russian legal system has demonstrated positive trends in the scope of use of pretrial detention for criminal suspects and the accused, but this is insufficient in terms of getting down to the bottom of deep-rooted problems.

09:59 20.10.2011

Civil law should limit freedom of parties to contract

The parties to a contract in Russia are guaranteed the maximum freedom according to contractual law, but not civil, corporate or substantive law, Supreme Commercial Court Chairman Anton Ivanov said at the Asian and Pacific Countries Forum in Vladivostok.

14:17 26.09.2011

Retrial on any grounds

The lower house of the Russian parliament proposes amendments to the Russian Legal Procedure Code. The amendments provide for the establishment of a list specifying types of newly-discovered facts upon which criminal cases may be reopened.

17:38 20.09.2011

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