International search of billionaire ex-senator Pugachev revoked - reportRussia's Interior Ministry and Investigative Committee have annulled an order on international search of Sergei Pugachev, former Russian senator and founder of the bankrupted Mezhprombank, Kommersant newspaper writes on Thursday.11:02 20.02.2014
Moscow teen school shooter charged with murder, hostage takingSergey Gordeev, the 15-year-old who was arrested last week after a shootout and hostage crisis in a Moscow school that left a teacher and a police officer dead has been officialy charged with murder, intent to commit murder, and the taking of hostages, Russian Investigative Committee spokesman Vladimir Markin announced Wednesday.11:05 12.02.2014
Gunman detained until April after Russian church attackA court in Yuzno- Sakhalinsk, the city of the Russian Far East, on Tuesday ordered to detain the man, who has opened fire on the church congregation, until April 9, according to the regional department of the Investigative Committee.10:18 11.02.2014
Gunman charged with murder after Russian church attackThe investigators have officially charged the man who opened fire on the chruch congregation in Russian Far East, the Investigative Committee reported on Monday.13:39 10.02.2014
Controversial Russian lawmaker keeps his parliamentary immunityRussia’s Prosecutor General’s Office has refused to grant a request filed by the Investigative Committee to strip controversial State Duma lawmaker Alexei Mitrofanov of his parliamentary immunity, Kommersant newspaper writes on Friday.11:27 07.02.2014
Poetry lover stabs prose aficionado to death in literary disputeA former teacher in the Sverdlovsk Region of Russia has killed his drinking companion after a dispute on the significance of literary forms, the Investigative Department of the local investigative committee reports Wednesday.13:18 30.01.2014
Russian judge suspected of aiding corporate raiders leaves for USIrina Baranova, a judge with the Moscow Commercial Court suspected of aiding corporate raiders has left Russia and is currently in the US.15:23 29.01.2014
Russian commercial court judge may be charged with helping criminals - reportInvestigative Committee Chairman Alexander Bastrykin filed an official request to bring charges against Moscow Commercial Court Judge Irina Baranova on suspicion of aiding raiders, Kommersant newspaper writes on Tuesday.10:54 28.01.2014
Offshore companies should be banned from privatization proceedingsThe Russian Investigative Committee has proposed prohibiting offshore companies and their subsidiaries from participating in privatization proceedings.17:08 24.01.2014
Navalny visits investigators for one case, summoned to testify in anotherOpposition leader Alexei Navalny announced Thursday that when he visited the Investigative Committee to read materials on one criminal case, he was subpoenaed to give testimony on another.15:23 23.01.2014
Investigators urge to strip notorious Russian lawmaker of immunity - reportRussia's Investigative Committee has asked Prosecutor General Yury Chaika to strip Alexei Mitrofanov, Chair of the State Duma Committee on Information Policy, of parliamentary immunity.13:18 21.01.2014
France to extradite fugitive Russian ex-official in major fraud caseA court in Aix-en-Provance, France, on Thursday ruled to extradite Alexei Kuznetsov, a former finance minister of the Moscow Region to Russia, Investigative Committee reports.14:56 16.01.2014
Navalny violated restriction notice in embezzlement investigationThe investigators can now move for detaining opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who has allegedly violated the terms of his restriction notice in the Ives Rocher case, the Investigative Committee told RIA Novosti on Monday.16:08 13.01.2014
Investigators search home of Politkovskaya murder trial defense attorneyInvestigators have searched the home of attorney Murad Musayev, who represents the accused in the high-profile murder cases of journalist Anna Politkovskaya and retired Colonel Yuri Budanov.10:27 13.01.2014
Terrorism charges filed in aftermath of Volgograd explosionsA criminal case on terrorism and illegal weapons trafficking has been initiated after an explosion destroyed a trolleybus in a Russian southern city of Volgograd on Monday morning.11:29 30.12.2013
All “Arctic 30” Greenpeace detainees pardonedThe case against Cristian d'Alessandro, one of the 30 Greenpeace activists detained in September over a protest staged at a Russian drilling rig in the Arctic, has been dropped, RIA Novosti reported Thursday citing Greenpeace Russia press-secretary Maria Favorskaya.13:54 26.12.2013
Russian authorities place billionaire ex-senator Pugachyov on wanted listThe federal Investigative Committee has placed Sergei Pugachyov, former Russian senator and founder of the bankrupted Mezhprombank, on a wanted list.11:50 26.12.2013
All Arctic Sunrise activists summoned to Investigative Committee - GreenpeaceAll 30 Greenpeace activists detained over a protest staged in September at a Russian Arctic oil rig have been summoned to the Russian Investigative Committee, Greenpeace wrote on its Twitter account.13:54 25.12.2013
Ex-Moscow Region official faces charges in $333 mln fraud schemeAlexei Kuznetsov, the former finance minister of the Moscow Region, will be charged in connection with an 11 billion ruble (over $333 million) fraud once he has been extradited from France.18:15 18.12.2013
Russian investigators finish probe into ex-Defense MinisterInvestigators have wrapped up a criminal probe into Russia’s ex-Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov, a Russian newspaper reported Monday.09:50 16.12.2013