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Detention of ex-Mari El governor in bribery case extended for three months

A court in Nizhny Novgorod on Wednesday extended detention of ex-governor of Mari El Republic Leonid Markelov charged with corruption for three months.

19:19 01.04.2020

Ex-head of Saratov Region town sentenced to 9 years for corruption

A former head of the Saratov Region’s town of Engels Dmitry Lobanov has received 9 years in a high security penal colony for receiving a property bribe.

17:37 01.04.2020

Extradited co-owner of ill-fated Kemerovo mall charged with $100k bribery

A co-owner of Zimnyaya Vishnya (Winter Cherry) shopping mall that became a site of deadly fire killing 60 people in Russia's Kemerovo in March 2018 has been charged with giving a 7-million-ruble bribe (about $100,000).

11:56 01.04.2020

Russian citizen fined for fake coronavirus news distribution

A court has fined a resident of Magnitogorsk, a city in the Chelyabinsk Region, 30,000 rubles (about $400) for distributing fake information on the coronavirus situation.

10:21 01.04.2020

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

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