Scooter shooter fires at business partner in downtown MoscowA man was arrested in Moscow on Thursday for shooting up a Mercedes driver while riding a scooter in downtown Moscow, the Investigative Committee reported on Friday.15:33 30.05.2014
FSB detains Right Sector militants plotting attacks in CrimeaThe Federal Security Service (FSB) arrested four members of the Right Sector ultra-nationalist group who were plotting attacks in Simferopol, Yalta and Sevastopol, the FSB external relations center said on Friday.11:36 30.05.2014
Another suspect in 2012 Moscow riots case detainedMoscow’s Basmanny District Court on Wednesday issued an arrest warrant for activist Dmitri Ishevsky, suspected of participating in the riots that engulfed central Moscow in May 2012, the court told RAPSI.16:25 28.05.2014
Russian nationalist to remain detained in lawyer's murder investigationThe Moscow City Court on Wednesday dismissed an appeal against the detention of Ilya Goryachev, who is suspected of involvement in a notorious extremist movement and implication in the murder of lawyer Stanislav Markelov, attorney Nikolai Polozov wrote on his Twitter account.14:45 28.05.2014
Alleged Stradivarius violin found in burglar hideout in RussiaThe police have found an alleged Stradivarius violin during a search of a suspected burglars’ flat in Tver, a city north of Moscow. Interpol is searching for the violin’s owner, the Russian Interior Ministry announced on its website on Wednesday.13:38 28.05.2014
Navalny’s supporters suspected of embezzling mayoral election fundsSearches are underway in the residences of lawmaker Konstantin Yankauskas and businessmen Nikolai Lyaskin and Vladimir Ashurkov, who financed Alexei Navalny’s campaign during last year’s Moscow mayoral election, the Investigative Committee spokesman said.12:22 23.05.2014
Russia sends copies of recordings from president’s plane crash to PolandPoland’s Main Military Prosecutor’s Office has received new copies of recordings from the pilots’ cabin of the presidential plane that crashed outside Smolensk, Russia on April 10, 2010, the spokesman of the Main Military Prosecutor’s Office, Captain Marcin Maksjan, said on Thursday.11:53 23.05.2014
Ukrainian prosecutors suspect former defense ministry leaders of negligenceUkraine’s Prosecutor General’s Office believes that former defense ministers and chiefs of staff dramatically reduced the country’s defense capability, the office said, citing a high-ranking employee.11:10 23.05.2014
Ukrainian authorities seek access to ex-prosecutor Pshonka’s archivesUkraine’s Prosecutor General’s Office is in talks to obtain the archives of ex-Prosecutor General Viktor Pshonka with a “paramilitary group” that took part in the Maidan protests. The prosecutors believe that the archives contain information about the authorities’ struggles against the protestors, the office’s press service announced on Monday.10:22 20.05.2014
Man suspected of involvement in Lithuanian 1991 unrest detained in ItalyFormer Soviet serviceman has been detained in Italy on suspicion of involvement in clashes in January 1991 after declaration of independence from the USSR, Lithuania’s prosecutor Thomas Krushna announced Friday.14:49 16.05.2014
Investigation against Ukrainian nationalist Yarosh extended in RussiaRussian investigators have extended the probe into Ukrainian ultra-nationalist Dmitry Yarosh.10:46 07.05.2014
Ukrainian prosecutors investigate 47 cases over protests in KievKiev Prosecutor’s Office is investigating 47 criminal cases connected with the protests on the Independecne Square (Maidan Nezalezhnosti) in Kiev, prosecutor Nikolai Gerasimyuk told the press on Wednesday13:59 30.04.2014
Ukraine claims Yanukovich and top officials funneled $32 bln to RussiaUkraine’s Acting Prosecutor General Oleh Makhnitskyi said in an interview with The Financial Times that Viktor Yanukovich and his team had allegedly removed at least $32 billion to Russia, the Prosecutor General’s Office said on its website.11:46 29.04.2014
Poland launches investigation into alleged Ukrainian nationalists trainingPolish prosecutors have opened a criminal case against unidentified persons suspected of training Ukrainian nationalists who took part in mass riots in Ukrainian capital, Przemyslaw Nowak, spokesman for the District Prosecutor’s Office in Warsaw, told RIA Novosti on Tuesday.10:30 29.04.2014
Suspects in large Moscow property fraud case found in Israel - reportFour suspects in a fraud case involving 120 properties in Moscow, 30 of which are architectural landmarks, have been found in Germany and Israel, Kommersant newspaper writes on Monday.11:52 28.04.2014
ICC to hold preliminary hearing over events in UkraineProsecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) Fatou Bensouda is beginning a preliminary hearing on the events in Ukraine that occurred between November 29, 2013, and February 22, 2014, the court announced in its press release Friday.16:40 25.04.2014
Breivik interrogation transcript disappears from police stationThe transcript of one of the longest and most emotional interrogations of Anders Breivik, a terrorist sentenced to 21 years in prison for killing 77 people in July 2011, has mysteriously disappeared from a locked office in an Oslo police station, the Norwegian media report Friday.15:21 25.04.2014
UN to investigate massacre in South SudanThe UN Security Council adopted a press statement on Thursday demanding that the South Sudanese government prosecute those who were responsible for the death of civilians in the oil-producing town of Bentiu.10:29 25.04.2014
Norwegian Helsinki Committee files application on Magnitsky deathThe Norwegian Helsinki Committee (NHC) has filed an application to open a criminal investigation into the alleged role of Russian officials in the torture and killing of Russian tax lawyer Sergei Magnitsky in 2009, Chief Public Prosecutor Siri Frigaard, head of the Norwegian National Authority for Prosecution of Organized and Other Serious Crime, told RAPSI.11:44 24.04.2014
New cases opened against Ukrainian ex-prosecutor general PshonkaThe Ukrainian Prosecutor General’s Office has opened more criminal cases against its former chief Viktor Pshonka on appropriation, abuse of authority and influence, it was reported Wednesday.14:35 23.04.2014