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Russian Supreme Court pushes for streamlining procedures governing judges’ career advances

A plenum of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation has proposed to submit to the State Duma a bill that would allow judges to be assigned a higher grade without taking into account the place of work of the judge and without observing the sequence of assignment of grades.

13:26 28.06.2022

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

Russian Supreme Court backs initiation of new case against ex-Moscow judge

The Supreme Court of Russia has upheld the Higher Judges' Qualifications Board’s decision to launch a new criminal case against ex-judge of the Moscow Commercial Court Igor Korogodov.

14:14 16.09.2021

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

Former judge gets 7 years in jail for graft in Samara Region

Ex-judge of the Volzhsky District Court of the Samara Region Mikhail Burtsev has been sentenced to 7 years in high-security penal colony for taking a bribe.

17:39 25.06.2021

Ex-judge from Russia’s Penza gets 8 years in prison for bribetaking

The Penza Regional Court has sentenced a former magistrate judge to 8 years in high-security prison for receiving 200,000 rubles ($2,600) in bribes.

15:20 02.04.2021

Russian Supreme Court grants initiation of fatal crash case against ex-regional judge

The Supreme Court of Russian on Tuesday upheld the Higher Judges' Qualifications Board’s consent to the institution of criminal proceedings over vehiculary manslaughter against a magistrate judge emeritus from Lipetsk Nadezhda Fedorova.

13:26 30.03.2021

Legislative initiative on perpetual tenure for justices of peace adopted by State Duma

A bill developed by Russia’s Supreme Court, which envisages that the terms in office of justices of the peace should be indefinite passed its third and final reading in the lower house of Russian parliament on Tuesday.

17:14 16.03.2021

Former Moscow judge receives 4.5 years behind bars for $7,000 graft

A court in Mytishchi, a town in the Moscow Region, has sentenced a former judge of Moscow’s Kuzminsky District Court Ruslan Yakubayev to 4.6 years in high-security penal colony for receiving a bribe worth 500,000 rubles ($7,000) from a criminal case defendant.

13:49 15.03.2021

Russia’s Civic Chamber to initiate dismissal of judges for misconduct

The Civic Chamber of the Russian Federation will be empowered to initiate revocation of the status of judges in case their acts discredit their honor and dignity; a respective executive order has been signed by President Vladimir Putin.

11:08 18.02.2021

Resident of Russia’s Komi ordered to prison for murder of judge

A court in Russia’s Republic of Komi has sentenced a 34-year local resident to 8 years in prison for killing a magistrate judge.

16:25 05.02.2021

President Putin suspends indexation of Russian judges’ wages

President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday signed a bill suspending annual indexation of wages of Russian judges into law.

13:16 30.12.2020

Cassation court upholds sentence in case over murder threats to Moscow judge

A fine imposed on a resident of town of Voronezh Mikhail Kvasov as sentence for murder threats to Moscow judge Stanislav Minin was upheld on Tuesday.

17:23 22.12.2020

Sentence of ex-Moscow judge and attorney in $70k fraud case overturned again

The Moscow City Court on Monday vacated sentence of ex-judge of the Moscow Commercial Court Igor Korogodov and attorney Alexander Mosin, who had received 3.5 and 2 years in jail for $70,000 fraud attempt.

14:51 21.12.2020

Russian Council of Judges backs bill on suspension of judicial wage indexation

The Presidium of the Council of Judges on Tuesday backed a bill suspending annual indexation of wages of Russian judges.

12:16 08.12.2020

Russia's Cabinet backs Supreme Court initiative on perpetual tenure for justices of peace

A Governmental Commission has backed a bill developed by Russia’s Supreme Court, which envisages that the terms in office of justices of the peace should be indefinite; currently, a package of these amendments is being readied for the second reading in the State Duma.

11:59 05.11.2020

Ex-magistrate judge to stand robbery charges trial in Moscow

Investigation into a former Moscow magistrate judge charged with robbery has been completed, the Investigative Committee’s press service reports.

13:48 14.10.2020

Supreme Court upholds revocation of authority of ex-deputy head of Moscow Commercial Court

The Supreme Court of the Russian Federation on Thursday dismissed an appeal filed by ex-Deputy Chairperson of the Moscow Commercial Court Olga Aleksandrova against termination of her powers.

16:00 01.10.2020

Legislative proposal to suspend judge wage indexation reaches Russian State Duma

A bill suspending annual indexation of wages of Russian judges has been brought before the lower house of parliament.

13:37 30.09.2020

Bill banning judges, their families from having bank accounts abroad reaches State Duma

Russia’s President Vladimir Putin has submitted to the State Duma a bill envisaging that judges and members of their families are to be prohibited to have bank accounts abroad.

12:11 23.09.2020