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Investigators seek to detain defendants in case over single voting days riots plot

Investigators have filed a motion seeking to place defendants in a case over online inducing citizens to take part in mass riots on the single voting days in detention until November 14.

11:35 17.09.2021

Russian investigators open case over inducement to single voting days riots

A criminal case has been opened over online inducing citizens to take part in mass riots on the single voting days.

13:00 16.09.2021

Moscow court reduces sentence for political scientist Platoshkin

The Moscow City Court has reduced by 3 months the suspended sentence given to political scientist and academic Nikolay Platoshkin on charges of “inciting unrest”.

15:40 08.09.2021

Russian socialist’s appeal against sentence for aiding riots set for September

The Moscow City Court has set an appeal filed by the leader of the movement For New Socialism Nikolay Platoshkin against his sentence for aiding and abetting mass riots and distribution of misleading information for September 3.

16:34 31.08.2021

Russian socialist convicted of aiding mass riots challenges sentence

The leader of the movement For New Socialism Nikolay Platoshkin guilty of aiding and abetting mass riots and distribution of misleading information has filed an appeal against his sentence.

13:37 02.06.2021

Chair of banned Majlis of Crimean Tatars sentenced to 6-year imprisonment in absentia

The Supreme Court of Crimea on Tuesday sentenced Refat Chubarov, chairman of Majlis of Crimean Tatars banned in Russia as extremist, to 6 years in prison in absentia for organizing mass riots.

13:59 01.06.2021

Socialist Platoshkin receives suspended sentence for aiding mass riots

The leader of the movement For New Socialism Nikolay Platoshkin on Wednesday got the 5-year suspended sentence for aiding and abetting mass riots and distribution of misleading information.

16:41 19.05.2021

Prosecutor seeks 6 years behind bars for leader of new socialism movement

A prosecutor demanded 6 years behind bars for the leader of the movement For New Socialism Nikolay Platoshkin charged with aiding and abetting mass riots and distribution of misleading information.

10:27 19.05.2021

Four cases opened in Moscow over force against policemen at illegal January 23 rally

Four criminal cases have been opened in Moscow over the use of force against law enforcement officers during an unauthorized rally held on January 23.

10:48 25.01.2021

Moscow rally activist convicted of throwing refuse bin at policeman loses parole bid

A court in the Bryansk Region dismissed a petition for parole filed by convict Yevgeny Kovalenko, who had thrown a garbage can refuse bin at a National Guard officer at an unauthorized rally on July 27, 2019, in Moscow.

17:52 19.01.2021

Leader of new socialism movement to stay under house arrest until spring 2021

Moscow’s Basmanny District Court on Wednesday extended house arrest of the leader of the movement For New Socialism Nikolay Platoshkin charged with aiding and abetting mass riots and distribution of misleading information until spring.

17:02 23.12.2020

Moscow court refuses to toughen supervision of opposition politician Udaltsov

Moscow’s Simonovsky District Court on Wednesday refused to grant a police bid to toughen administrative supervision imposed on opposition figure Sergey Udaltsov.

13:22 16.12.2020

Russian investigators charge 3 Lithuanian judges over 1991 riots ruling

Russian investigators brought charges against 3 Lithuanian judges with issuance of unjust ruling in a case over clashes in Vilnius in January 1991.

17:17 14.12.2020

Three defendants in 2012 prison riots case go on trial in Chelyabinsk Region

The Kopeisk City Court in Russia’s Chelyabinsk Region will consider a criminal case over mass riots in a local penal colony in 2012.

16:58 04.12.2020

Participant of illegal 2019 July rally Malyshevsky loses parole application

Activist Eduard Malyshevsky imprisoned for assault on a police officer at the unauthorized rally held in Moscow on July 27, 2019 was denied release on parole on Friday.

17:53 27.11.2020

Participant of illegal 2019 Moscow rally Beglets goes at large

Activist Danila Beglets, who had been convicted of using violence against a police officer at an unauthorized rally in Moscow on July 27, 2019, was released from a penal colony in the town of Mtsensk in the Oryol Region on Monday.

15:09 02.11.2020

Refusal to release activist convicted of assault on officer on parole upheld

The Sverdlovsk Regional Court on Thursday upheld a lower court’s refusal to release activist Kirill Zhukov, who had committed an assault on a National Guard officer during an unauthorized rally in Moscow on July 27, 2019, on parole.

14:04 22.10.2020

Opposition politician Udaltsov denied 2021 administrative supervision lift

Moscow’s Simonovsky District Court on Friday dismissed a lawsuit filed by opposition figure Sergey Udaltsov seeking lifting of an administrative supervision including a ban to attend rallies until 2021 imposed on him.

16:29 09.10.2020

Activist’s sentence for assault on officer at illegal Moscow rally reduced by 6 months

The Second Cassation Court of General Jurisdiction on Tuesday reduced sentence given to activist Kirill Zhukov, who had committed an assault on a National Guard officer during an unauthorized rally in Moscow on July 27, from 3 years in penal colony to 2.5 years in penal colony settlement.

11:48 22.09.2020

Russian Supreme Court refuses to review opposition figures’ 2012 riot case sentence

The Supreme Court’s Presidium on Wednesday refused to reconsider sentence against Russian opposition activists Sergey Udaltsov and Leonid Razvozzhayev in the 2012 Bolotnaya Square riot case basing on the ruling of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR).

12:23 16.09.2020