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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

Two Russian security officers charged with fraud go on trial

Two former officers of the Federal Security Service (FSB) indicted in fraud face trial in the Moscow Garrison Military Court.

15:27 04.08.2021

Urals court grants parole to photographer convicted of killing model wife

Urals photographer, Dmitry Loshagin, sentenced to 10 years in high-security colony for killing his wife, model Yulia Prokopyeva, was granted parole on Tuesday.

10:40 03.08.2021

Owner of Moscow Region hospice gets over 6 years in penal colony in fatal fire case

An owner of a private hospice in the Moscow Region’s town of Krasnogorsk on Monday received 6 years and 5 months in penal colony in a case over the fire that had led to the death of 12 patients.

14:01 02.08.2021

Man ordered to community service for publishing Hitler photo on Immortal Regiment site

Andrey Akimov residing in Russia’s Orenburg Region has received 1-year community service for publishing the image of Adolf Hitler on the Immortal Regiment website.

15:47 30.07.2021

Case over recognition of murders of Pskov residents during WWII as genocide to be heard in August

The Pskov Regional Court is to hear a petition of the prosecutor's office seeking to recognize the massacres of civilians committed in the region by the Nazis during the Great Patriotic War as genocide in August.

16:28 27.07.2021

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

Arrest warrant issued for ex-director of Navalny’s foundation in absentia

An arrest warrant was issued in absentia on Tuesday for Ivan Zhdanov, a former director of the foundation established by Alexey Navalny, which had been declared extremist by court, as part of a case over deliberate non-compliance with court decisions.

17:37 29.06.2021