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Russia’s Justice Ministry proposes parole for women with children under 4 years old

The Russian Ministry of Justice has drafted a bill providing for the possibility of release on parole and mitigation of yet not served sentence terms for women convicted of minor crimes and having children under the age of four.

14:24 04.10.2022

Kaliningrad doctors get 9.5 and 9 years in prison for baby’s death

The Moscow Regional Court sentenced doctors Elena Belaya and Elina Sushkevich, who used to work in Kaliningrad, a city in the western part of Russia, to 9.5 and 9 years in a general regime colony in a case where they were found guilty by a jury of the death of a baby.

17:07 06.09.2022

Eleven Russian children returned from Syria aided by ombudsman Lvova-Belova

Eleven minors accompanied by the employees of the Office of Russia’s Child Rights Commissioner Maria Lvova-Belova returned to the homeland from Syria overnight into Friday.

12:04 22.07.2022

Russian minors’ ombudsman pushes for creation of Donbass orphan database

Russia’s child rights commissioner Maria Lvova-Belova has proposed to create a database of Donbass orphaned children during her meeting with head of the Donetsk People’s Republic Denis Pushilin.

14:00 14.07.2022

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

Russia offers fast-track citizenship to orphans from LPR, DPR, Ukraine

Russia’s President Vladimir Putin has signed a decree simplifying the process for children from orphanages in the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic (DPR), the Luhansk People's Republic (LPR) and Ukraine to acquire Russian citizenship.

10:53 03.06.2022

Russian government backs bill enabling life sentences for paedophiles

Russia's government has backed a bill proposed by the United Russia party to introduce life sentences for pedophiles, according to Chair of the State Duma Information Policy Committee Alexander Khinshtein.

17:01 20.10.2021

Lack of awareness on part of minors of moral harm caused to them still remains harm suffered

The Second Cassation Court of General Jurisdiction has agreed that the compensation of nonpecuniary harm caused to the children, who lost their father in a plane crash, needs to be increased. The lack of awareness of the moral harm caused to them does not mean that there was no such harm of it was insignificant.

15:56 08.10.2021

Kuznetsova relieved of post of Russia's Child Rights Commissioner

President Vladimir Putin relieved Anna Kuznetsova of the post of Russia's Child Rights Commissioner as she had been elected as a State Duma lawmaker.

15:18 01.10.2021

Trial of of ex-schema monk Sergius to continue in September

The Izmaylovsky District Court of Moscow on Wednesday postponed the hearing of a case against excommunicated ex-schema monk Sergius (Nikolay Romanov) over inducement to suicide and usurpation of power until September 2.

18:40 25.08.2021

Four defendants in surrogacy kids trade case returned to detention

The First Appeals Court of General Jurisdiction overturned house arrest imposed on CEO of the European Surrogacy Center Vladislav Melnikov and three other defendants in a case over trafficking of surrogate mothers’ children and detained them.

10:43 06.08.2021

Disabled children to be seen out of turn – presidential order

President Vladimir Putin has signed a decree ordering shops, social and other institutions to see out handicapped children out of turn.

10:44 27.07.2021

Russian minors’ ombudsman pushes for support for all categories of families with children

Russia’s Child Rights Commissioner Anna Kuznetsova stresses that complex support measures must be applied to all categories of families with children.

12:58 26.07.2021

Kuznetsova proposes to encourage child safety information distribution on social networks

Russia’s Child Rights Commissioner Anna Kuznetsova proposed to encourage social media users in distributing information on the rules of children’s safety during the online meeting with regional ombudsmen and members of the Infant Community Councils on Friday.

17:14 09.07.2021

Putin orders Cabinet to realize child benefit measures until August

President of Russia Vladimir Putin has ordered the government to pursue measures for monthly child benefits for minors aged from 3 to 7 years until August 1.

15:50 07.07.2021

Children Ombudsman urges closer cooperation of volunteers and authorities in search for missing minors

The mechanisms of interaction between the authorities and volunteer search teams need to be made even more effective, the Russian Children Rights Commissioner Anna Kuznetsova believes.

10:47 07.07.2021

Russia's Children Ombudsman helps 23 more minors to return from Syria

The fourteenth special flight with Russian children from Syria has landed at the Chkalovsky airport near Moscow, the press service of the Children Rights Commissioner Anna Kuznetsova informs. Another 23 children were returned to their homeland.

10:57 05.07.2021

Number of international adoption cases decreases amid pandemic - Russian Supreme Court

The COVID-19 pandemic has had a significant impact on the judicial practice in cases of international adoption: the number of such cases has significantly decreased, and already scheduled hearings were either suspended or terminated due to the impossibility of the adoptive parents to come to Russia.

15:51 04.06.2021

Russian Civic Chamber urges citizens to back memorandum on protection of minors on Internet

Members of the Russian Civic Chamber invite all concerned citizens to join the parent community's memorandum on the protection of children on the Internet and social networks.

15:43 01.06.2021

Number of appeals to Russian Children's Ombudsman increased by 7.3% in 2020

The number of appeals received by the office of Children Rights Commissioner Anna Kuznetsova increased by more than 7% in 2020, according to the annual report on the activities of this human rights institution.

17:28 31.05.2021