Compensation

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Russian Ministry proposes compensations to right holders for online content blocking

The Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation has drafted a bill providing for compensation of up to 5 million rubles (about $88,000 at the time of writing) for copyright infringement related to illegal blocking of online content.

12:29 22.07.2022

Russian hematologist granted $60k comensation for unfounded prosecution

Moscow’s Cheremushkinsky District Court on Friday ordered Russia’s Finance Ministry to pay well-known hematologist Elena Misyurina 4.3 million rubles ($60,000) in compensation for damage caused by unfounded criminal prosecution against her.

13:46 15.10.2021

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

Moscow court to notify Facebook on claim of footballer Khokhlov under Hague Convention

A court in Moscow, in accordance with the Hague Convention, will notify Facebook Inc about the claim of football coach Dmitry Khokhlov seeking to recover from the company 150 million rubles ($2 million) in compensation for non-pecuniary damage suffered due to the blocking of posts and comments, which mention his name.

14:18 05.10.2021

Bill on indexation of money awarded by courts reaches Russian State Duma

17:38 05.07.2021

Russian government approves initiative to index payments to victims of crime

The government of the Russian Federation has approved a draft law developed by the Ministry of Justice on the indexation of payments awarded by court decisions in case such are delayed for a long time.

14:01 02.07.2021

Driver beaten by Russian football players wins $3,000 compensation for moral harm

Moscow’s Savelovsky District Court has collected 200,000 rubles (about $3,000) jointly from football players Pavel Mamayev and Alexander Kokorin and two other participants of the scuffle with a journalist’s driver in 2019.

10:55 25.06.2021

Russian commercial court fines company $2 mln for polluting Black Sea

The Commercial Court of a southern Russian region Krasnodar Krai has satisfied a claim of the local office of the Russian Federal Service for Supervision of Natural Resources (Rosprirodnadzor) against OOO Inmorterminal as to compensation of the damage caused to the Black Sea by this company in the amount of more than 145 million rubles (about $2 million).

12:37 07.04.2021

Daughter of 2015 Egyptian plane crash victim to be compensated under amicable agreement

A settlement agreement between the daughter of a woman who died in October 2015 as a result of the crash of an Airbus-321 airliner on the Sinai Peninsula caused by an explosion on board, Kogalymavia Airlines and Ingosstrakh Insurance Company has been approved by a St. Petersburg court.

15:02 30.03.2021

Russia’s Cabinet approves bill on compensations to foreigners stranded in emergency zones

The Government Commission on Legislative Drafting has approved an initiative on granting the right to receive compensation payments to foreign citizens and stateless persons who have found themselves stranded in emergency zones.

15:43 18.03.2021

Driver beaten by Russian football players increases damage claim

Driver Vitaly Solovchuk suffered in the incident involving football players Pavel Mamayev and Alexander Kokor has increased his damage claim as to reimbursement of expenses spent for his medical treatment.

12:00 19.01.2021

Russia’s Ombudsman urges creation of foundations to support victims of crimes

It is feasible to initiate the formation in Russia of a legal platform enabling the establishment of foundations aimed at support of victims of crimes and compensation of their damages, Rights Commissioner Tatiana Moskalkova believes.

18:37 18.01.2021

Bill on compensation for illegal detention submitted to State Duma

A bill on the non-pecuniary damage award for illegal detention of a person for up to 48 hours has been submitted to the lower house of Russia’s parliament.

14:57 12.01.2021

Injured party in 2016 Sochi air crash case denied $28M idemnity all over again

The Second Cassation Court of General Jurisdiction has upheld refusal in payment of the 2.1 billion-ruble ($28 million) insurance indemnity to the relatives of victims of the TU-154 military plane crash near Sochi in December 2016.

10:59 22.12.2020

Arbiter files $7,000 claim against against ex-footballer as part of assault case

Arbiter Nikita Danchenko, a victim in the assault case against ex-player of the Russian national football team Roman Shirokov, has asked court to grant his 500,000-ruble ($7,000) claim against the defendant.

15:28 18.12.2020

Moscow court to proceed with driver’s $13,500 claim against Kokorin, Mamayev

Moscow’s Savelovsky District Corut will hear a lawsuit filed by driver Vitaly Solovchuk demanding a 1 million-ruble ($13,500) moral compensation from football players Pavel Mamayev, Alexander Kokorin and two other defendants.

10:57 07.12.2020

Relatives of car crash victim waive compensation claims against actor Efremov

Family of Sergey Zakharov, who had died in a road traffic accident committed by Mikhail Efremov, withdrew their compensation claims against the actor.

15:26 23.11.2020

Russian penitentiary authorities ordered to pay prison torture victim's parents $26,000

A court in Grozny, the capital of Russia’s Chechen Republic, ordered the Federal Penitentiary Service (FSIN) to pay 2 million rubles ($26,000) in compensation to the parents of Sultan Israilov, who had died from tortures in a penal colony where he had been serving sentence.

15:20 10.11.2020

Actor Efremov paid $40,000 to three relatives of car crash victim - defense

Russian actor Efremov convicted of committing a fatal road traffic accident under the influence of alcohol has paid 3 million rubles (about $40,000) to three relatives of the car crash victim Sergey Zakharov.

14:02 21.10.2020

Organizers of illegal 2019 summer rallies ordered to pay Moscow restaurant over $3,000

The Moscow City Court has upheld a lower court’s ruling ordering collection of more than 240,000 rubles (over $3,000) from organizers of unauthorized rallies held in central Moscow in the summer of 2019 in favor of the restaurant Armenia.

10:30 15.10.2020