Questioning

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State Duma to discuss bill giving investigators right to conduct interviews by videolink

Draft amendments to the Russian Code of Criminal Procedure granting investigators the right to interview victims, specialists, experts and witnesses in criminal cases via videoconferencing means has been submitted to the lower house of the Russian parliament.

10:58 02.06.2021

Online interrogations to facilitate faster probes – Russia’s Public Business Ombudsman

Online examinations of witnesses and victims may fasten preliminary investigations, as well as shorten times accused persons are kept in pretrial detention centers, Public Business Ombudsman, Co-Chair of Rost political party Alexander Khurudzhi believes.

13:14 10.11.2020

Key defense witness in actor Efremov case to testify in court on August 31 – lawyer

Andrey Gayev, the key defense witness in a case against actor Mikhail Efremov who believes that the defendant has not driven his Jeep, will testify in Moscow’s Presnensky District Court on August 31.

18:02 26.08.2020

Business Ombudsman proposes to permit interrogation of persons outside Russia

Russia’s Business Rights Commissioner Boris Titov has proposed to amend the Code of Criminal Procedure with a provision making it possible to conduct distant interrogations via videoconference systems approved by law enforcement agencies.

17:36 25.05.2020

Russian opposition politician Yashin to testify in Nemtsov murder case

Russian politician, deputy chairman of PARNAS opposition party Ilya Yashin wrote on Twitter that he would testify as a witness in Boris Nemtsov murder case on November 30.

13:00 29.11.2016

Yanukovych summoned for questioning as suspect in shooting of protestors in 2014

Former Ukrainian president Victor Yanukovych has been summoned to the Chief Military Prosecutor's Office for questioning on December 5 as a suspect in the case over using fire arms against protesters in Kiev in late 2013 and early 2014.

18:05 28.11.2016

Yanukovych says he did not give order to shoot at protesters in 2014

Former Ukrainian President Victor Yanukovych said he did not give order to law enforcers to use fire arms against protesters when testifying about the events in Kiev in late 2013 and early 2014.

16:31 28.11.2016

Ukraine’s Prosecutor General accuses former president Yanukovych of treason

Ukraine’s Prosecutor General Yury Lutsenko on Monday accused former president Victor Yanukovych of treason claiming that he was involved in violation of the country’s territorial integrity.

14:45 28.11.2016

Navalny’s wife refuses to testify in painting theft case

Yulia Navalnaya, wife of Russian opposition activist and anti-corruption blogger Alexei Navalny, has refused on Monday to testify in a criminal case over the alleged theft of a painting by artist Sergei Sotov

14:43 25.08.2014

Georgia may place ex-president Saakashvili on international wanted list – report

Former Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili will be placed on an international wanted list if he continues to ignore subpoenas for his questioning in a number of cases.

13:58 24.03.2014

Russians arrested with tycoon in Cambodian blowout to be interrogated

Russian nationals, who were arrested in Cambodia alongside real estate magnate Sergei Polonsky at the end of last year, to be questioned on Tuesday in court, head of the Russian Embassy's Consular Department Pavel Seskanov told RIA Novosti.

11:10 29.01.2013

Pussy Riot defense team member refuses questioning on May 6 riots case

A member of the legal team which represented the infamous Pussy Riot, attorney Violetta Volkova, who was issued a notice to come in for questioning as part of the Moscow Bolotnaya Square riots case, will not acquiesce to the request.

13:46 11.09.2012

Putin's family friend to be questioned by police

Ksenia Sobchak, it-girl and longtime acquaintance of president-elect Vladimir Putin, has been called for questioning over an alleged attack on pro-Putin journalists.

16:00 26.03.2012