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Probe into ex-Khabarovsk Governor Furgal completed – Russian Investigative Committee

The Russian Investigative Committee has completed the investigation of the criminal case against ex-Governor of the Khabarovsk Krai Sergey Furgal, who stands charged with organizing murders.

17:49 22.10.2021

Former Far Eastern customs official gets 12 years in jail for taking bribes

A court has sentenced the former first deputy of the Far Eastern Directorate of the Federal Customs Service Sergey Fedorov to 12 years in prison for taking bribes in the amount of more than 34 million rubles.

14:44 24.08.2021

Case over 2019 Far Eastern children camp fire set for December

A court in the Khabarovsk Krai has scheduled a criminal case over the 2019 deadly fire in the children camp Holdomi for December 3.

11:55 18.11.2020

Defendants in 2019 Far Eastern children camp fire case to go on trial

A criminal case over the 2019 deadly fire in the children camp Holdomi has reached a court in the Khabarovsk Region, Russia’s Far East.

12:52 26.10.2020

Ex-CEO of Far Eastern Energy Company gets 2.5 years in jail for $9 mln embezzlement

Ex-Director General of the Far Eastern Energy Company Victor Milush has been sentenced to 2.5 years in penal colony for embezzling over 680 million rubles (about $9 million).

15:28 22.10.2020

Probe into 2019 Far Eastern children camp fire case completed

Investigation into the 2019 deadly fire in the Khabarovsk Region's children camp Holdomi in Russia’s Far East has been completed.

12:00 19.10.2020

Lawyer urges prosecution against Khabarovsk Krai governor over 2019 camp fire

Attorney Igor Trunov has asked the Investigative Committee’s Chairman Alexander Bastrykin to prosecute Khabarovsk Region governor Sergey Furgal accused of businessmen murders over the 2019 deadly fire in the children's camp Holdomi.

11:23 10.07.2020

Defendant in Russia’s Primorye Oceanarium embezzlement case gets 12 years in jail

Andrey Poplavsky, the former CEO of a state organization established to oversee the implementation of a presidential decree on the construction of the Primorye Oceanarium, has received 12 years in a high-security penal colony for large-scale embezzlement.

12:12 04.03.2020

Two ex-officials of Far East prison keeping notorious convict go on abuse of office trial

Indictment has been approved against two ex-officials of an Amur Region’s penal colony where a notorious gang member Vyacheslav Tsepovyaz is serving his sentence for involvement in mass murder; a local court is to hear the case.

11:42 26.02.2020

Russia’s State Duma simplifies e-visa entry of foreigners to Far East

The State Duma has passed in the third and final reading a bill extending a simplified entry of foreign citizens having e-visas to Russia’s Far East region.

16:12 12.02.2020

Russia’s Far East resident gets suspended term for creating Jehovah's Witnesses cell

A court in Russia’s Far East Primorsky Region has given a local resident a 5-year suspended sentence for establishing a chapter of banned Jehovah’s Witnesses.

12:52 21.01.2020

Animal shelter owner sentenced to 3 years for leaving dogs without food

The Blagoveshchensk District Court in Russia’s Amur Region has sentenced an owner of a dog shelter, who left animals without pet food and water, to 3 years in penal colony settlement.

12:53 24.12.2019

Businessman gets 11 years for $15 mln Vostochny Cosmodrome embezzlement

The Blagoveshchensk City Court in Russia’s Amur Region has sentenced the head manager of Krasnoyarsk’s company USIO Dmitry Vishnevsky, to 11 years in prison for embezzlement of more than 980 million rubles (over $15 million) from budget funds allocated for the construction of Vostochny Cosmodrome.

16:01 03.12.2019

Far East military doctor fined over $6,000 for death of patient

The Vladivostok Garrison Military Court has sentenced the chief of a navy clinical hospital’s department of surgery, medical service lieutenant colonel Alexander Shcheglovsky, to a 400,000-ruble fine (over $6,000) for the death of a patient.

16:49 21.11.2019

Far East resident charged with illegal caviar sale goes on trial

A court in Kazan, the capital of Russia’s Republic of Tatarstan, will consider a case against a 33-year-old resident of Vladivostok, Far East, who stands charged with illegal online sale of 9 kilos of black caviar worth over 2.6 million rubles (over $40,000).

17:26 19.11.2019

Charges brought against guard in Amur college shooting case

An employee of the private security firm Sirius-A has been charged in a case over deadly shooting in a college in the Amur Region college.

10:45 19.11.2019

Security firm CEO charged in Amur college shooting case

Charges were brought against a CEO of Sirius-A, a private firm responsible for security arrangements in the Amur Region’s college, where a student had shot at his groupmates.

12:59 15.11.2019

All captured Far East whales released – Russia's human rights body

All orca whales and white whales, which had been illegally captured in the Primorsk Territory of Russia’s Far East, were returned to the high sea, the press service of the Presidential Council for Human Rights reports Monday.

10:58 11.11.2019

Chinese hotelier ordered to 9-year jail in Russia for bribery

A court in Russia’s Primorsky Krai sentenced a Chinese hotelier to 9 years in prison for attempting to give a bribe in order to obtain an operation permit for a hotel he had built in Vladivostok.

11:44 07.11.2019

Russian lawmakers back Far East tourism development bill

The State Duma passed two bills on the development of tourism in Russia’s Far East in the first reading on Tuesday.

17:31 05.11.2019