Ex-officer convicted of extortions from personnel seeking mission in Syria to serve longer termFormer military officer Anton Danilevsky, sentenced to 2 years in a maximum security penal colony for extorting money from servicepersons wishing to be sent on mission in Syria, is to spend additional 2.5 years behind bars after found guilty on two new counts.15:57 13.08.2020
Defense Ministry ordered to pay $60k to mother of soldier killed by tank fireA court in the Leningrad Region obliged Russia’s Defense Ministry to pay 4 million rubles (about $60,000) to the mother of a common soldier Andrey Vittikh, who had died from tank fire during army exercises because of the command officers’negligence.15:58 04.06.2020
Bill obliging military servicepersons undergo annual health screenings reaches State DumaRussia’s government has submitted to the State Duma a bill seeking to introduce mandatory annual medical examinations and drug tests for persons serving in the military.16:59 28.04.2020
Comrade-in-arms of soldier accused of murder gets suspended term for military hazingA garrison military court in Chita, a city in Russia’s Zabaikalye Territory, passed a 2-year suspended sentence on Ruslan Muratov guilty of military hazing in a regional military unit where soldier Ramil Shamsutdinov had allegedly done the deadly shooting.14:52 03.03.2020
Federation Council backs bill on repayment of fallen Russian servicemen mortgageThe Federation Council approved a bill on repayment of mortgage of deceased servicemen on Monday, according to a statement published on the website of the parliament’s upper house.18:06 23.12.2019
State to redeem mortgage of fallen Russian servicemen in advance – billThe State Duma passed a bill on repayment of mortgage of deceased servicemen in a final third reading on Tuesday.17:07 17.12.2019
Soldier charged with killing comrades-in-arms put in detention for two monthsA garrison military court in Chita, a city in Russia’s Zabaikalye Territory, ordered soldier Ramil Shamsutdinov, who had allegedly done the deadly shooting in a military unit, to be detained for two months.11:11 28.10.2019
Russian army officers sentenced to prison for online sale of heat vision sightsA court has sentenced three army officers to prison terms ranging from 3 to 5 years for illegal online sale of heat vision sights.10:58 22.10.2019
Four people convicted of $320k army embezzlement in Moscow RegionA court has found two retired army officers and two former civil servants of one of the Moscow Region’s military units guilty of embezzling more than 21 million rubles (over 320,000).13:23 08.10.2019
Russia’s Supreme Court denies rehabilitation of WWII traitor commanderRussia’s Supreme Court had upheld an opinion of the Prosecutor General’s Office declining to rehabilitate a former deputy commander of an army within the Soviet armed forces during WWII, colonel Vladimir Artsezo.16:09 27.09.2019
Russian Defense Ministry ordered to pay $61k to ex-soldiers suffered tank fireA court in the Leningrad Region on Thursday ordered the Defense Ministry of Russia to pay 4 million rubles (about $61,000) to three ex-common soldiers, who had suffered from tank gun hits during army exercises.17:46 05.09.2019
Bill clarifying specifics of deferment from military service reaches State DumaA bill providing equal opportunities for young men to get deferment from military service in order to receive continuous higher education has been submitted to the State Duma.11:59 19.09.2018
Bill restricting online information disclosure by military personnel reaches State DumaRussian government has submitted to the State Duma a bill prohibiting military personnel from disclosing information on themselves and other servicemen in media and on the Internet.17:36 11.09.2018
Russian citizen gets 4 years in absentia for fighting in Azov Battalion in DonbassMoscow’s Babushkinsky District Court has sentenced Russian national Roman Zheleznov to 4 years in prison in absentia for fighting as a mercenary of the Ukrainian neo-Nazi Azov Battalion in Donbass.12:27 29.03.2018
Russian cadet charged with plotting terror attack to undergo repeated sanity examThe Moscow District Military Court during its offsite hearing in St. Petersburg on Thursday ordered A.F. Mozhaisky's Military-Space Academy’s cadet Vadim Osipov, charged with preparing a terror attack in the academy, to undergo repeated mental examination.14:59 11.01.2018
Russian military prosecutors uncover about 300 corruption crimes in 2017About 300 corruption related crimes were revealed by military prosecutors in the first quarter of 2017.13:59 06.04.2017
Russian military doctors receive prison terms for taking bribesThe Moscow District Military court has found three medical employees of the Vishnevsky Third Central Military Clinical Hospital guilty of taking bribes and sentenced them to various prison terms.17:44 07.02.2017
Russian ex-colonel sentenced to 12 years for treasonThe Moscow City Court has sentenced former colonel of Russian Armed Forces Andrei Belyayev to 12 years in high security penal colony for treason.16:15 27.10.2016
Supreme Court revokes mitigation of sentence for Russian Army ex-commanderThe Supreme Court of Russia on Tuesday overturned lower courts’ ruling on requalification of charges against former Army Commander Colonel General Vladimir Chirkin and mitigation of his sentence by imposing a fine instead of prison term.12:27 11.10.2016
Supreme Court to review sentence for Russian Army ex-commander on October 11The Supreme Court of Russia will consider a motion of prosecutors to review sentence for former Army Commander Colonel General Vladimir Chirkin on October 11.13:38 04.10.2016