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Profile: Norwegian mass murderer Anders Breivik case

While Anders Behring Breivik has confessed to having killed eight people in an Oslo bombing, and having gunned down another 69 at a nearby youth summer camp in 2011, he has refrained from admitting guilt for the crimes that he has been charged with in this connection.

15:00 23.08.2012

Profile: the Pussy Riot case

According to advocacy website freepussyriot.org, Pussy Riot is a punk rock collective that formed in October 2011 with the aim of protesting policies unfavorable to such human rights principles as gender equality, democracy, and freedom of expression.

15:20 20.08.2012

Profile: the case against Mixed Martial Arts champ Rasul Mirzayev

Undefeated Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) featherweight champion Rasul “Black Tiger” Mirzayev stands accused of having negligently caused the death of 19-year-old student Ivan Agafonov after inflicting grave injuries in a street brawl near Moscow's Garazh night club on August 15, 2011. Mirzayev, a 26-year-old Dagestan native, faces up to 15 years in prison if convicted.

13:05 14.08.2012

Criminal charges mount after discovery of children hidden underground

Legal consequences are mounting up in the aftermath of the shocking discovery by authorities last week of nearly 70 devotees of an obscure sect that had been living underground in total isolation from society for the past decade in the Russian region of Tatarstan.

18:57 09.08.2012

New judicial salary scheme to cost taxpayers $2 bln

The Finance Ministry has proposed steps to increase the salaries of judges. If adopted, the legislation will require 65.7 billion rubles ($2 billion) from the federal budget for the judiciary in 2013.

12:12 18.07.2012

Russia must wait until fall to secure ECHR representation

A routine rotation of judges at the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has spiraled into a scandal for Russia. Oddly enough, this ambiguous development was provoked by the European institutions themselves when the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) postponed its appointment of a Russian judge to the court until October.

09:51 09.07.2012

Russian law and unfair competition

Anton Ivanov, Supreme Commercial Court Chairman, in his speech at the St. Petersburg International Legal Forum brought up an issue that is rarely discussed at such events due to its sensitive nature. Ivanov spoke about unfair competition among judicial systems, and has broken the phenomenon down into five specific categories. Competitive environment

09:59 25.05.2012

European Court of Human Rights hardly to charge fees

Will the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) start rendering its services for money? What are the reasons behind the court’s overload and the ways to deal with it? What difficulties does the ECHR face when interacting with national courts? ECHR Registrar, Erik Fribergh, spoke about these questions in an exclusive interview with the Russian Legal Information Agency (RAPSI).

12:05 07.05.2012

The Charles Taylor verdict: the rule of law over impunity

The Special Court for Sierra Leone held former Liberian president Charles Taylor guilty for aiding and abetting in the commission of 11 acts of war crimes, crimes against humanity, and serious violations of international humanitarian law.

11:49 28.04.2012

Rusal spat and fair market principles

Russian billionaire Viktor Vekselberg’s Sual Partners launched arbitration proceedings against EN+, Glencore, UC Rusal (Jersey) and its major shareholder Oleg Deripaska.

10:44 10.04.2012

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