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State Duma adopts third set of antitrust bills

14:33 22/11/2011 The State Duma adopted in the third reading the third set of presidential antitrust bills on Tuesday. The bills have amended competition law, the Criminal Code, the Code of Administrative Violations and a number of other legislative acts.

Judicial reform starts paying off - Supreme Commercial Court chairman

15:20 21/11/2011 Supreme Commercial Court Chairman Anton Ivanov announced on Monday the initial results of President Medvedev's judicial reform.

Deputies suggest capping bail for suspects

15:11 21/11/2011 State Duma deputies have suggested capping bail at $485,000.

State Duma to impose criminal responsibility for establishing shady firms

14:55 18/11/2011 The State Duma adopted in the second reading a government draft law proposing to imprison individuals registering firms on third parties to commit crimes in addition to those establishing fly-by-night companies.

State Duma allows for returning evidence to owners before judgment

14:05 18/11/2011 A government-proposed bill was passed in the second and third readings in the State Duma on Friday allowing money and valuables taken as evidence to be returned to their owners before the court judgment enters into force.

State Duma makes amendments on compulsory works as alternative to imprisonment

13:03 18/11/2011 Amendments to the Criminal Code introducing compulsory works as an alternative to imprisonment and allowing those, who committed minor economic crimes, be released after paying a fine five times higher than the damage they inflicted passed the third reading at the State Duma on Thursday.

New systems of rights in rem to improve real estate relations

14:01 17/11/2011 A new system of rights in rem offered by the developers of amendments to the Civil Code will allow people oppose infill construction, reduce corruption in land plots allocation for construction and settle disputes between neighbors amicably, Anton Ivanov, the Supreme Commercial Court's chairman, said on Wednesday.

Importers of electronic appliances have to pay for reproducing music and video

12:50 17/11/2011 Russia's Supreme Court held against three companies' lawsuits to partially abolish the government decree setting the amount charged for reproducing audio records for personal purposes and the list of the chargeable equipment.

Court decisions failing to recover 'expired' state budget debt dismissed

12:01 16/11/2011 The Supreme Commercial Court Presidium dismissed on Tuesday three lower courts' decisions refusing to recover $91,117 in state budget debts from the Niva Voronezh Regional Association of Farms and Agricultural Cooperatives for Rosagrosnab.

Ukrainian parliament not to decriminalize Tymoshenko offense

15:10 15/11/2011 The Ukrainian parliament refused on Tuesday to include an amendment decriminalizing the offense for which ex-Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko was sentenced to seven years in prison in a presidential bill mitigating punishment for economic crimes.

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17:52 24/11/2020 The current assessment of danger posed to the society by actions, which can ruin lives of the concrete people, destabilize public order, and cause public outrage through dissemination of certain information, has become absolutely obsolete, Doctor of Jurisprudence, Professor, Chair of the Moscow Lomonosov University Department of Criminal Process Leonid Golovko believes.

Prosecutors urge 17-year prison sentence for ex-Mari El head in $3 mln bribery case

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