War crimes

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DPR Supreme Court to hear case against five alleged foreign mercenaries

A criminal case against citizens of Sweden, Croatia and Great Britain, charged with mercenary activities, has been submitted to the Supreme Court of the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR).

14:52 01.08.2022

Massacres in Russia’s Bryansk region during WWII recognized as genocide by court

The Bryansk regional court has recognized as genocide the mass murders of civilians and prisoners of war committed in the region by the Nazis during the Great Patriotic War.

14:21 28.07.2022

Massacres in Russia’s Krasnodar region during WWII qualified as genocide by court

The Krasnodar Krai Court has held that the crimes committed by the Nazi invaders during the Great Patriotic War on the territory of the region are to be recognized as genocide.

12:48 26.07.2022

Investigators establish facts of genocide in Bryansk region during WWII

The facts of genocide of civilians during the Great Patriotic War have been established in Russia's Bryansk Region.

12:29 14.07.2022

Deputy chief of nationalist battalion Aidar to stay in Russian detention until fall

The Leninsky District Court in Russia’s Rostov-on-Don on Tuesday extended the detention of Denis Muryga, deputy commander of the nationalist battalion Aidar, until September 16.

16:40 12.07.2022

Crimean Supreme Court recognizes WWII civilian massacres as genocide

The Supreme Court of Crimea has recognized the massacres of civilians committed by the Nazis on the peninsula during the Great Patriotic War as genocide.

11:24 07.07.2022

Appeal of Moroccan sentenced to death reaches Supreme Court of DPR

The Supreme Court of the Donetsk People’s Republic has received a cassation appeal filed by the citizen of Morocco Brahim Saadun against his death sentence.

14:48 04.07.2022

International tribunal proposed to be created for Ukraine’s crimes in Donbass

Chairman of the Russian Investigative Committee Alexander Bastrykin, speaking at the St. Petersburg International Legal Forum on Wednesday, proposed establishing a special tribunal in the context of the crimes of the Kyiv authorities.

14:58 29.06.2022

Russian prosecutors seek qualification of WWII massacres in Belgorod region as genocide

The Russian Prosecutor General's Office has petitioned the Belgorod Regional Court to recognize the massacres committed by the Nazis on the territory of the Belgorod Region during the Great Patriotic War as war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide of the Soviet people.

17:40 22.06.2022

Crimean Supreme Court to hear on genocide during Great Patriotic War

The Supreme Court of Crimea is to start considering the case of genocide of the Soviet people during the years of the occupation of the peninsula during the Great Patriotic War on June 27.

18:13 20.06.2022

Genocide ruling as to Pskov civilians’ murders during WWII comes into force

A court ruling recognizing massacres of civilians committed in the Pskov Region by the Nazis during the Great Patriotic War as genocide came into force on Tuesday.

12:50 05.10.2021

Pskov civilians’ murders during WWII recognized as genocide

The Pskov Regional Court on Friday recognized massacres of civilians committed in the region by the Nazis during the Great Patriotic War as genocide.

11:31 27.08.2021

Pskov court to hand down ruling in case over locals’ murders during WWII

The Pskov Regional Court is to hear oral arguments and proclaim the judicial disposition of the decision in a genocide case over the massacres of civilians committed in the region by the Nazis during the Great Patriotic War.

12:06 23.08.2021

State Duma MPs push idea to ban public identification of USSR with Third Reich

The lower house of Russian parliament passed a draft law banning the public identification of the role of the USSR and Nazi Germany in World War II in the second reading on Tuesday.

14:45 08.06.2021

Russia’s Investigative Committee conducts probe at WWII mass grave site in Bryansk

Officers the Russian Investigative Committee in cooperation with experts with the civil society movement engaged in search for the soldiers and civilians perished in the Great Patriotic War are working on extraction and identification of the remains of those killed at the location of the Dulag-142 concentration camp in the city of Bryansk as part of a criminal case on the genocide of the peoples of the USSR.

12:16 31.05.2021

Investigators join proceedings over cases of genocide against civilians during WWII

Russia’s Investigative Committee has opened a criminal case over genocide of the peoples of the USSR during the Great Patriotic War joining in it all cases of Nazi crimes against civilians under investigation.

15:18 22.03.2021

Russian MP proposes stiff fines for organizations rehabilitating Nazism

A Deputy Chair of the State Duma Irina Yarovaya has submitted a draft law on fines of up to 3 million rubles for organizations denying facts established by the Nurenberg Tribunal.

14:58 06.11.2020

WWII murders in Novgorod Region recognized as genocide

The Soletsky District Court in the Nizny Novgorod Region on Tuesday adjudged that an act of genocide against peoples of the Soviet Union was committed in Zhestyanaya Gorka village in 1942.

19:46 27.10.2020

Prosecutors to seek definition of WWII murders in Novgorod Region as genocide

The Prosecutor’s Office of the Novgorod Region is to petition a court to rule that an act of genocide against peoples of the Soviet Union was committed in Zhestyanaya Gorka village in 1942.

12:05 29.09.2020

Russia’s Investigative Committee opens case over discovery of mass WW2 grave

A criminal case was opened by investigators after a mass grave of Soviet citizens murdered during the World War II had been discovered in the Leningrad Region.

13:01 17.09.2020