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Ex-chief of opposition group declared "undesirable" fined $670

Andrey Pivovarov, a former director of Otkrytaya Rossia, an opposition group declared in Russia "undesirable", has been fined 50,000 rubles ($670).

16:26 19.07.2021

Russian businessman Prigozhin accuses one more opposition figure of defamation

Businessman Yevgeny Prigozhin has lodged a 5 million-ruble defamation lawsuit (about $65,000) against Leonid Volkov, an associate of opposition blogger Alexey Navalny.

13:27 20.10.2020

Participant of illegal Moscow 27 July rally released after sentence mitigation

The Moscow City Court on Monday reduced a 1-year sentence given to activist Nikita Chirtsov for using force against a police officer during an unauthorized rally held in Moscow on July 27 by one month. Chirtsov was released in the court due to the actual serving out the sentence.

12:10 13.04.2020

Police $132k claim against organizers of illegal Moscow summer rallies set for April 15

Moscow’s Simonovsky District Court will continue hearing a lawsuit filed by the Interior Ministry seeking to recover over 10 million rubles ($132,000 at the current exchange rate) from the organizers of the unauthorized summer rallies on April 15.

10:59 08.04.2020

Interior Ministry's claims against organizers of unauthorized rallies lowered two times

Russia’s Interior Ministry has diminished the amounts of its claims against organizers of unauthorized rallies, among them Alexey Navalny, Ilya Yashin, Lyubov Sobol, and Georogy Alburov, by 8 million rubles ($126,000).

19:02 21.10.2019

Russian transport entities demand $60k from opposition figures over unauthorized rally

Moscow’s Simonovsky District Court will consider three lawsuits containing claims totaling nearly 4 million rubles (over $60,000) against opposition figures Lyubov Sobol and Georgy Alburov on October 21.

15:34 13.09.2019

Russian court to reconsider Azeri opposition blogger deportation case

The St. Petersburg City Court overturned a lower court’s ruling on expulsion of Azeri opposition blogger and Azer Freedom TV journalist Elvin Isayev from Russia.

16:54 10.09.2019

Blogger gets 5 years for threats against law enforcement officers' children

Moscow’s Presnensky District Court on Tuesday sentenced blogger Vladislav Sinitsa, who had called for violence against children of law enforcement officers, to 5 years in penal colony.

11:21 03.09.2019