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Art gallery security guard sentenced to community service for damaging Leporskaya painting

A magistrate court in the city of Yekaterinburg on Monday sentenced former Yeltsin Center security guard Alexander Vasilyev to 180 hours of community service and compulsory treatment for damaging a painting by Kazimir Malevich's student Anna Leporskaya.

17:23 29.08.2022

Parole ruling in favor of Urals photographer convicted of killing model wife overturned

The Sverdlovsk Regional Court on Monday overturned a lower instance’s ruling granting parole to Urals photographer Dmitry Loshagin, sentenced to 10 years in high-security colony for killing his wife, model Yulia Prokopyeva.

17:40 20.09.2021

Urals court grants parole to photographer convicted of killing model wife

Urals photographer, Dmitry Loshagin, sentenced to 10 years in high-security colony for killing his wife, model Yulia Prokopyeva, was granted parole on Tuesday.

10:40 03.08.2021

Ural attorney charged with $4,000 fraud faces trial

A court in Yekaterinburg, a city in Russia’s Ural, will hear a case against a local attorney, who stands accused of a 300,000-ruble fraud ($4,000).

17:53 12.10.2020

Case opened over children torture in Russian convent

A probe was launched into alleged tortures of children in the Sredneuralsk Women’s Monastery outside of Russia’s Yekaterinburg where earlier schemonk Sergius was defrocked.

12:51 06.10.2020

Russian man sentenced to life for killing two young women

The Sverdlovsk Regional Court has sentenced a local resident Alexey Aleksandrov to life for murder of two young women in an urban forest.

17:40 29.09.2020

Organizer of extremist movement AUE to be imprisoned for 7 years

The Yekaterinburg Garrison Military Court on Wednesday sentenced Nikolay Babarika to 7 years in jail for organizing an extremist public movement Arestantskoye Ugulovnoye Yedinstvo / Criminal Unity of Inmates (AUE) propagating criminal way of life.

15:29 09.09.2020

Man ordered to community service for murder threats during coronavirus lockdown

A court in Russia’s Yekaterinburg has sentenced a local resident to 280 hours of compulsory community service for murder threats against his partner during the COVID-19 self-isolation.

13:20 07.08.2020

Yekaterinburg city lawmaker sentenced to 7 years in high security prison

The Kirovsky District Court in the city of Yekaterinburg has sentenced a former head of the Sverdlovsk Region capital construction department, currently a lawmaker of the city legislative assembly, Oleg Kagilev, and his partner Dmitry Shadrin to 7 years in a maximum security penal colony each.

17:09 18.03.2020

Rights advocate proposes to create database of best practices against domestic violence

A co-author of a bill aimed to put in place mechanisms of prevention of domestic violence, rights activist Alena Popova has proposed to create a common database of best practices in the sphere of prevention of violence against women.

15:45 19.02.2020

Seminar on problem of violence against women opens in Yekaterinburg

The Russian Federation and the Council of Europe have opened a seminar on interdepartmental cooperation aimed at the development of regional models to be used to prevent and fight violence against women and domestic violence, including that caused by social deprivation, in the city of Yekaterinburg.

10:59 18.02.2020

Seminar on problem of violence against women to be held in Yekaterinburg

A seminar on interdepartmental cooperation aimed at the development of regional models to be used to prevent and fight violence against women and domestic violence, including that caused by social deprivation, is to be held in the city of Yekaterinburg on 18 to 19 February.

16:14 10.02.2020

Russian court refuses to detain State Duma lawmaker charged with bribery

The Leninsky Court of Yekaterinburg on Friday found no grounds to put the State Duma lawmaker Vadim Belousov involved in a 3.2-billion-ruble (about $50 million) bribery case in detention.

17:17 15.03.2019

Extremism case against Urals resident dropped owing to legislation amendments

A court in Yekaterinburg, a city in Russia’s Urals, has dropped an extremism case against local citizen Vladimir Munuylenko.

10:32 09.01.2019

Defendant in Koltsovo airport database hacking case sentenced to 5 years

A court in Yekaterinburg has sentenced Igor Makovkin, a defendant in the case over hacking of a local Koltsovo airport’s database and stealing 1.2 billion rubles ($18.2 million) from banking accounts, to 5 years in prison.

17:45 30.10.2018

Two Russian men charged with $18 mln cyber fraud to go on trial

A 1.2-billion-ruble ($18 million) cyber fraud case against two Ural residents Constantine Melnik and Igor Makovkin has been forwarded to a court in Ekaterinburg for hearing.

13:59 17.08.2018

Belarusian sentenced to community service for attempted arson at Yeltsin monument

A judge in Russia’s Yekaterinburg has sentenced Belarusian national Igor Shchuka to one year of community service for an attempt to set a monument honoring the first Russian President Boris Yeltsin on fire.

13:00 28.02.2018

Acquittal of Russian auto plant's ex-top manager upheld

The Sverdlovsk Regional Court on Friday upheld a lower court’s ruling to acquit ex-head of the Automobiles and Motors of the Urals factory (AMUR) Pavel Chernavin of fraud and illegal obtaining of credit.

14:02 03.11.2017

Russian court refuses to reconsider sentence of convicted Pokemon Go player

The Presidium of the Sverdlovsk Region Court won’t review an appeal filed by videoblogger Ruslan Sokolovsky, who had received a suspended term for playing Pokemon Go in a church.

16:38 16.10.2017

Convicted Pokemon Go player appeals his sentence

Videoblogger Ruslan Sokolovsky, who had received a suspended term for playing Pokemon Go in a church, filed an appeal with the Sverdlovsk Region Court against the sentence.

13:57 18.09.2017