Corruption & Bribery

Head of State Duma department arrested for peddling jobs

The Moscow Tverskoy District Court has sanctioned the arrest of Andrei Vostrov, head of the engineering technical property management department at the State Duma; Vostrov is suspected of accepting money in exchange for positions at the Duma.

10:11 02.11.2012

Average bribe in economic crimes in Russia exceeds $32k

The average bribe amount in economic crimes in Russia is over 1 million rubles (around $32k), Interior Ministry spokesperson Sergei Solopov told journalists on Thursday.

15:16 25.10.2012

OECD urges France to crack down on official bribery

France needs to clean up its act in terms of respecting its obligation to combat official bribery, according to the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD or Organization).

18:32 24.10.2012

TNK-BP department head detained on suspicion of selling government positions

A former Irkutsk regional economic development and industry minister who now heads TNK-BP's department for maintaining contact with the government has been detained on suspicion of selling government positions.

14:56 19.10.2012

Bribery sentence of former chief military physician confirmed

The Supreme Court’s Military Board has upheld the eight-year custodial sentence of the Defense Ministry's former Medical Department head.

14:57 16.10.2012

Kaliningrad resident accuses Polish Consulate General of corruption

A Kaliningrad businessman has submitted a complaint to the Polish Foreign Ministry regarding the diplomats at its local Consulate General, accusing them of corruption. The Consulate General has denied the accusations that its diplomats engaged in corruption during the bidding to create a visa center.

17:40 05.10.2012

Blogger ordered to reveal sources in international football scandal

A Singapore court accepted World Sports Group’s (WSG) demand that journalist James M. Dorsey expose the confidential sources that contributed to his reports on the Asian Football Confederation’s (AFC) audit of suspended FIFA vice president Mohammed Bin Hammam.

09:02 02.10.2012

HP employees accused of 7.5 mln Euro bribe

Germany's Saxony Chief Prosecutor's Office has charged three former Hewlett-Packard (HP) employees of corruption: a Finn, an American, and a German. They allegedly offered a 7.5 million Euro bribe nine years ago while entering into a contract with the Prosecutor General's Office in Russia.

16:52 14.09.2012

Judge fined $7.8K for bribery

The Stavropol Territory Court fined a judge $7,850 for accepting a bribe.

11:52 15.08.2012

Russian anticorruption laws align with UN convention

The Prosecutor General's Office announced that experts at the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, which is also involved in anti-corruption issues, concluded, after discussions in Moscow, that most of the standards of the United Nations Convention against Corruption (UNCAC) were being implemented within Russian legislation in full, the Moscow News daily reports.

11:20 13.08.2012

Top news

Russian courts allowed not to implement rulings of Europe's human rights court

Russia's Supreme Court proposed not to implement rulings of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) and the provisions of the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (ECHR).

12:53 09.12.2025

Redomiciliation stalls: How sanctions are shaping new practices for Russian companies

The mechanism for redomiciliating foreign companies to Russian jurisdiction, in effect since 2018, has recently encountered serious obstacles. Taking into account the background of sanctions-related restrictions introduced in 2022 through 2025, it has become extremely difficult to achieve the goal. The situation gave rise to the phenomenon of dual domicile and led to a rise in the number of new litigations, both in Russia and abroad.

12:32 09.12.2025

Soldiers jailed for killing US journalist Russell Bentley

A military court in Donetsk sentenced three soldiers to up to 12 years in prison for torturing and killing Russell Bentley, a 63-year-old U.S. national who collaborated with Sputnik news agency.

14:05 08.12.2025