Mother urges to provide her seriously ill child with drug worth over $1 mlnA woman in court requests the St. Petersburg healthcare committee to urgently provide her child with a drug worth over $1 million.16:07 25.08.2020
Investigators’ decision to open abuse of office case against Bashkir bar chamber head invalidatedA court in Ufa, the capital of Russia’s Republic of Bashkiria, on Monday invalidated an investigators’ order to open a criminal case over abuse of office against a former president of the Republican Bar Chamber Bulat Yumadilov.16:16 24.08.2020
Russia’s Justice Ministry develops bill amending review mechanism for court rulingsThe Justice Ministry of the Russian Federation has developed amendments to the Code of Commercial Procedure, Civil Procedure Code, and Code of Administrative Judicial Procedure envisaging introduction of a legal mechanism governing review of court rulings on new grounds.16:55 21.08.2020
NGO in Russia’s Krasnoyarsk declared extremist - prosecutorsA court in Russia’s Krasnoyarsk has declared the Nation and Freedom Committee extremist organization upon a prosecutor’s administrative lawsuit.10:59 29.07.2020
Court refusals to follow Constitutional Court opinion prevent consolidation of Constitution primacyRefusals on the part of general jurisdiction courts to follow opinions of Russia’s Constitutional Court or administer differently interpreted law are to be considered as noncompliance with the Court’s decisions, what prevents consolidation of Russia’s Constitution primacy and violates the right to judicial protection, according to a recent Constitutional Court’s judgement.17:16 29.06.2020
Norilsk thermal plant CEO detained in fuel spillage case until late JulyThe Norilsk City Court on Thursday placed CEO of a local thermal plant Pavel Smirnov in detention until July 31 as part of a case over the fuel spillage disaster.14:27 11.06.2020
Order of restricted access to Moscow courts prolonged until mid-JuneRestrictions concerning access of non-parties of trials including journalists to Moscow courts have been extended once more, until June 14.15:10 29.05.2020
Russian attorney suspected of fraud put in detentionAttorney Sergey Shcherbakov on Thursday was placed in detention on suspicion of involvement in organized fraud upon a court order.13:20 28.05.2020
First online hearing on Court Portal platform held in St. PetersburgThe first ever court hearings in their entirety have been held online in St. Petersburg; the participants have registered via a governmental website of state services, what enabled distant identification.18:17 27.05.2020
Russia’s resident fined $420 for rehabilitation of NazismThe Supreme Court of Russia’s Republic of Chuvashia has imposed a fine of 30,000 rubles ($420) on a 21-year local resident for rehabilitation of Nazism.14:48 27.05.2020
Restricted access to Moscow courts extended until May31The regime of restricted access to Moscow courts for non-parties of trials including journalists has been extended until May 31.16:02 08.05.2020
In two weeks 36 lockdown breaches cases considered by Moscow courtsMoscow courts considered 36 administrative cases over violation of the self-isolation order by citizens in the last two weeks.10:12 07.05.2020
Supreme Court extends anti-coronavirus restrictions in Russian courts until May 11The Supreme Court’s Presidium has extended restricted access to Russian courts until May 11 because of the coronavirus pandemic.11:52 29.04.2020
Defendants in falcon smuggling case go on trial in Russia’s AltaiA court in Russia’s Altai Krai will consider a criminal case against four citizens accused of attempt to transfer rare peregrine falcons abroad.16:17 22.04.2020
Over 2 mln cases considered by Russian courts during coronavirus lockdownRussian courts considered over 2 million cases and materials during the coronavirus quarantine, from March 18 to April 20, RAPSI was told in the Supreme Court on Tuesday.17:15 21.04.2020
Russian business ombudsman strives for working on digital legal proceedingsRussia’s business ombudsman Boris Titov has forwarded a proposal to creat a working group on the introduction of digital judicial proceedings to the Supreme Court’s Chairman Vyacheslav Lebedev.15:05 08.04.2020
Russian senators develop bills on video court hearingsMOSCOW, April 2 (RAPSI) – The Federation Council members Alexey Russkikh and Andrey Klishas have drafted a package of bills proposing to hold court hearings through videoconference. The documents, according to Russkikh, have been sent to the Supreme Court and Government for their conclusions. There are a lot of lawsuits in courts now that cannot be considered because of the coronavirus pandemic. The bills are aimed to prevent violation of procedural rights, prompt the terms of case consideration, reduce time expenditures and legal expenses and improve the level of enforcement of the right to judicial protection of people with disabilities, the bills’ authors believe.18:16 02.04.2020
Journalists, audience denied admittance to Moscow courts due to coronavirusStarting March 19, Moscow courts restricted presence of journalists and audience at hearings because of the coronavirus epidemic.10:37 19.03.2020
Ex-clerk of Moscow court gets 4 years in jail in fraud caseMoscow’s Cheremushkinsky District Court has sentenced a former court clerk Lilia Bolovina to 4 years in custody as part of a fraud case.10:55 07.02.2020
Russian prosecutors push for rarer placing of criminal defendants in detentionRussian prosecutors believe that investigators ask courts to detain defendants in minor and medium gravity criminal cases far too frequently, a statement released on the official website of the Prosecutor General’s Office reads.16:19 29.01.2020