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Russian citizen sentenced to 7 years in prison for 30 false reports of terrorist attacks

The Oktyabrsky District Court of southern Russian city of Krasnodar sentenced local resident Alexey Lutsenko to 7 years and 1 month in a penal colony for 30 deliberately false reports of impending explosions, as reported by the Joint Press Service of the Courts of the Krasnodar Krai.

12:15 25.08.2022

Russian Supreme Court Chairman: SCO nations’ courts adhere to common legal approaches

The judicial systems of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) signatories adhere to common legal principles and are looking for common vectors of development, Chairman of the Russian Supreme Court Vyacheslav Lebedev said addressing the 17th meeting of the SCO member states’ Chief Justices.

11:00 22.08.2022

DPR court to proceed with case of Ukrainian neo-Nazi group in August

A court in the Donetsk People’s Republic will start hearing the case of the Ukrainian neo-Nazi group SS Bears on August 1 in, the Donetsk News Agency reports Thursday.

17:05 28.07.2022

Massacres in Russia’s Bryansk region during WWII recognized as genocide by court

The Bryansk regional court has recognized as genocide the mass murders of civilians and prisoners of war committed in the region by the Nazis during the Great Patriotic War.

14:21 28.07.2022

DPR сourts heard over 54,000 cases in 6 months of 2022

For the period from January to the end of June 2022, ourts of the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) conducted proceedings on 54,135 cases and materials, according to a statistical report presented on the official website of the DPR Supreme Court.

14:11 27.07.2022

Ex-top manager of major Internet provider Rostelecom faces corruption trial

Ex-top manager of Russian major digital service provider Rostelecom Andrey Levakov will stand trial on corruption-related allegations.

14:30 15.07.2022

Ex-mayor of Vladivostok ordered to 5–year imprisonment for abuse of power

The Leninsky District Court of Russia’s Vladivostok has sentenced the former city’s mayor Igor Pushkarev to 5 years of imprisonment for abuse of office.

10:42 12.07.2022

International tribunal proposed to be created for Ukraine’s crimes in Donbass

Chairman of the Russian Investigative Committee Alexander Bastrykin, speaking at the St. Petersburg International Legal Forum on Wednesday, proposed establishing a special tribunal in the context of the crimes of the Kyiv authorities.

14:58 29.06.2022

About 47,000 matters considered by Donetsk People’s Republic courts in 2022

For the period from January to May 2022, the courts of the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) conducted proceedings on 46,918 cases and materials, according to a statistical report presented on the official website of the Supreme Court of the DPR.

16:08 16.06.2022

Regional ex-deputy prosecutor gets 3 years in jail for corruption

A court in Taganrog has sentenced a former deputy prosecutor of the city Victor Plyushkin to 3 years behind bars for bribery.

10:27 09.06.2022

Russian parliament’s upper house backs bills on non-compliance with ECHR rulings

The Federation Council, Russia’s upper house of parliament, on Wednesday approved a package of bills on non-compliance by the Russian Federation with the rulings of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR).

14:17 08.06.2022

AI unlikely to be allowed court sentencing - expert

The artificial intelligence (AI) systems can help professional judges analyze data, but they are unlikely to be assigned to court sentencing, according to Ruslan Ibragimov, Director for Legal Research of HSE University.

17:49 06.06.2022

All child adoption applications filed by foreigners granted in 2021

Russian courts granted all considered applications for child adoption filed by foreigners, people without citizenship and Russian nationals permanently living abroad in 2021, according to the judicial review approved by the Supreme Court’s Presidium.

13:22 03.06.2022

Moscow courts suspend personal reception of citizens amid COVID-19 spread

Moscow courts will suspend personal reception of citizens starting October 28 due to the coronavirus outbreak.

17:15 25.10.2021

Woman convicted of embezzling funds from 3 banks to spend 8 years behind bars in new case

Natalya Norimova, who had already been convicted of embezzling more than 700 million rubles ($9.8 million) from banks Taurus and Ascania Trust, was newly sentenced to 8 years in prison for complicity in the embezzlement of 12.6 million rubles ($176,000) from Vologdabank.

12:49 11.10.2021

Ex-Mayor of town in Russian Republic Adygea gets 2.5-year suspended term for fraud attempt

Ex-Mayor of the town of Maikop in Russia’s Republic of Adygea Andrey Getmanov has received a 2.5-year suspended sentence for deal compulsion, large-scale fraud attempt and illicit ammunition storage.

10:54 22.09.2021

Member of terrorist cell operating in colony in Russia’s Kalmykia gets 5.5 years in jail

A military court has sentenced Robert Emirgamzayev, a member of a terrorist organization operating for more than 6 years in a penal colony in Russia’s Kalmykia, to 5.5 years in jail.

11:38 31.08.2021

Pskov court to hand down ruling in case over locals’ murders during WWII

The Pskov Regional Court is to hear oral arguments and proclaim the judicial disposition of the decision in a genocide case over the massacres of civilians committed in the region by the Nazis during the Great Patriotic War.

12:06 23.08.2021

Investigators seek to detain ex-chair of Krasnodar court charged with fraud attempt

Investigators seek to place a former chairman of the Oktyabrsky District Court in Krasnodar Gennady Bairak charged with attempted fraud and abuse of power in detention.

17:54 06.08.2021

Perm resident fined $2,500 for rehabilitation of Nazism

A court in the Perm Krai fined Maxim Gusev, who had posted a photo of the former head of the Cossack reserve of the German SS Andrey Shkuro, on the Immortal Regiment website, 180,000 rubles ($2,500) finding him guilty of rehabilitation of Nazism.

13:23 05.08.2021