Psychiatric treatment

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Bill on length of investigated persons' stay in psychiatric hospitals reaches State Duma

The Government has submitted to the State Duma a bill setting the time frame for which a person in custody is to be temporarily placed in a medical institution that provides psychiatric care.

13:54 22.03.2021

Rules for submitting investigated persons to mental treatment to be codified in Russia

The Government Commission on Legislative Drafting has considered draft amendments to the Criminal Procedure Code, which clearly define rules for sending persons under investigation to psychiatric hospitals.

11:35 16.03.2021

Moscow bank hostage holder to undergo compulsory mental treatment

A court found Alexey Baryshnikov, a defendant in a case over hostage taking in one of the Moscow offices of Alfa Bank, guilty and sentenced him to compulsory mental treatment.

16:00 06.11.2020

Mother of boy left alone in Moscow park for night to undergo mental treatment

The Babushkinsky District Court on Monday ordered Nadezhda Kulikova, who had left her son alone in a Moscow reservation park for a night, to undergo compulsory mental treatment.

15:09 06.07.2020

Murderer of Moscow investigator to undergo compulsory treatment - court

The Moscow City Court on Wednesday found unemployed St. Petersburg resident Sergey Grigoryev guilty of killing a Moscow investigator Vladislav Kapustin and ordered the defendant to undergo compulsory mental treatment.

14:58 13.05.2020

Public monitoring commissions to be able to monitor mental hospitals – order

The Ministry of Healthcare has approved an order of visiting psychiatric hospitals by the members of public monitoring commissions.

10:27 06.05.2020

Russian man ordered to forced mental treatment after murder in kindergarten

A court in the Nenets Autonomous Area released a resident of the city of Naryan-Mar Denis Pozdeyev, who had been found guilty of killing a 6-year boy in a local kindergarten, and ordered him to undergo compulsory mental treatment.

15:19 24.03.2020

Assailant of house of Russian Central Election Commission head ordered to forced treatment

A court ordered the native of Kazakhstan Bakhyt Karabalayev, who had committed assault related to robbery against the house of Chair of Russia’s Central Electoral Commission Ella Pamfilova, to undergo compulsory treatment.

10:54 05.02.2020

Muscovite awarded $320 in compensation for illegal compulsory mental treatment

Moscow’s Tverskoy District Court awarded 20,000 rubles ($320) to a Muscovite for illegal admission to a mental hospital, lawyer Ilnur Sharapov told RAPSI on Monday.

13:00 27.01.2020

Investigators demand forced treatment for man accused of murder of boy in kindergarten

Investigators have asked court to send a resident of the Nenets Autonomous Area's Naryan-Mar, who stands charged with killing a 6-year boy in a local kindergarten, to compulsory medical treatment.

11:48 23.01.2020

Supreme Court upholds forced mental treatment for cadet charged with plotting terror attack

Russia’s Supreme Court has upheld a lower court’s decision to forcibly confine cadet Vadim Osipov charged with inducing to terrorism and preparing a terror attack in the A.F. Mozhaisky's Military-Space Academy in a psychiatric hospital.

14:57 29.08.2019

Russian cadet charged with plotting terror attack to undergo forced mental treatment

The Moscow District Military Court on Friday ruled to forcibly confine cadet Vadim Osipov charged with inducing to terrorism and preparing a terror attack in the A.F. Mozhaisky's Military-Space Academy in a psychiatric hospital.

12:52 31.05.2019

Assailant of Russian journalist transferred to clinic

Boris Grits, the assailant who had wounded prominent Russian journalist Tatyana Felgenhauer with a knife, was transferred to a clinic to undergo compulsory treatment.

14:24 27.06.2018

Russian ombudsman proposes to establish service protecting rights of mentally ill patients

Russian human rights ombudsman Tatiana Moskalkova believes that there is a need to establish a service to protect the rights of psychiatric clinics’ patients.

17:29 13.10.2017

Moscow court upholds compulsory treatment of Bolotnaya activist Panfilov

The Moscow City Court had upheld a lower court’s ruling to send the Bolotnaya Square riot case defendant Maxim Panfilov to compulsory treatment.

13:37 22.06.2017

Appeal against compulsory treatment of Bolotnaya activist Panfilov set for June 22

The Moscow City Court will consider an appeal against a lower court’s ruling to send the Bolotnaya Square riot case defendant Maxim Panfilov to compulsory treatment on June 22.

14:58 01.06.2017

Rights of Russian citizen forcibly placed in psychiatric hospital violated - ECHR

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) held that rights of a Russian national, who had been involuntary placed in a psychiatric facility, were violated, and awarded €1,500 in compensation to him.

13:25 04.04.2017

Bolotnaya case defendant Panfilov to undergo compulsory treatment

Moscow’s Zamoskvoretsky District Court has ruled to send the Bolotnaya Square riot case defendant Maxim Panfilov to compulsory treatment.

14:57 29.03.2017

Prosecutor demands compulsory treatment for Bolotnaya case defendant Panfilov

Prosecutor has asked Moscow's Zamoskvoretsky District Court to send the Bolotnaya Square riot case defendant Maxim Panfilov to a specialized hospital for compulsory medical treatment.

12:57 27.03.2017

Prosecutor’s Office to probe into alleged compulsory treatment of opposition activist

The Prosecutor’s Office of Voronezh, a town in southwestern Russia, has launched a probe into alleged involuntary psychiatric committal of Dmitry Vorobyevsky, a well-known Voronezh opposition activist, without a respective court decision.

14:13 11.05.2016