Russian citizen gets 13 years in prison for shooting at police officersThe Supreme Court of Russia’s Republic of Tatarstan has sentenced a 59-year old local resident to 13 years in prison for shooting at police officers.10:59 07.12.2017
Number of teen suicides in Moscow region drops – ombudsmanThe number of teenage suicides in the Moscow region dropped by more than one third in 2017 as compared to the last year.18:00 09.11.2017
Ex-deputy director of Russian Penitentiary Service suspected of taking $2 mln bribesProbe has been opened into former deputy director of the Federal Penitentiary Service (FSIN) Nikolay Barinov on suspicion of taking about 110 million rubles (about $2 million) in bribes.16:59 02.11.2017
Kalmykia’s Supreme Court upholds sentence for prison guards in torture caseThe Supreme Court of the Republic of Kalmykia has upheld a lower court’s ruling finding several employees of a penal colony guilty of beating prisoners.12:59 27.10.2017
Russian citizen files complaint with ECHR against soft sentence for police officerA resident of the Republic of Tatarstan lodged an application with the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) complaining that a police officer, who had used force against him, received too lenient sentence.13:59 26.10.2017
Ex-police officer sentenced to 13 years for aiding and abetting militantsThe Supreme Court of the Republic of Dagestan has sentenced former police officer Magomed Magomedov to 13 years in prison for aiding and abetting militants.12:55 25.10.2017
Moscow court reduces sentence for unauthorized rally participant by 4 monthsThe Moscow City Court has reduced prison sentence for the participant of the unauthorized March 26 rally in Moscow, Andrey Kosykh, from 4 years to 3 years and 8 months.17:35 04.10.2017
Moscow court sentences two criminals to 7 years for embezzling $4.2 millionThe Ostankinsky District Court has sentenced two persons to 7 years in prison for embezzling 245 million rubles ($4.2 million) from one of Moscow’s banks.11:26 21.09.2017
Ukrainian police launch case against Saakashvili over illegal border crossingA criminal case over illegal border crossing was opened in Ukraine after ex-Odessa governor Mikheil Saakashvili broke through the country’s border.13:58 11.09.2017
Ex-policeman’s suspended sentence for battering detainee changed to imprisonmentThe Supreme Court of Tatarstan has changed a suspended term of former police officer Marat Garayev to 4.5 years in prison for beating a person under arrest.14:59 08.09.2017
Nine men charged with recruiting for ISIS to stay in detention until December 4The Oktyabrsky District Court of St. Petersburg has extended detention of nine natives of Central Asian states charged with recruiting for Jabhat al-Nusra and Islamic State (ISIS), terrorist organizations banned in Russia and internationally until December 4.11:53 04.09.2017
Four policemen in Tatarstan charged with tortureFour ex-policemen were charged in the case over death of a deputy head of Kazan’s railroad transportation college Pavel Drozdov inflicted by tortures.15:00 09.08.2017
Russian Interior Ministry ordered to pay $1,200 to man tortured by policeThe Supreme Court of Tatarstan has ordered Russia’s Interior Ministry to pay 70,000 rubles ($1,200) to a man tortured in a police office.18:06 05.06.2017
Suspect in murder of Russian lawyer arrested in MoscowLaw enforcement officers have arrested a suspect in the murder of a Moscow attorney.13:50 29.05.2017
Police raid popular Moscow theater as part of $3.5 mln embezzlement casePolice have raided the Gogol Center, a popular contemporary theater in Moscow, as part of investigation into alleged embezzlement of nearly 200 million rubles ($3.5 million) of budget funds allocated for development of art.15:34 23.05.2017
ECHR awards €95,000 to three Russian citizens for ill-treatment by policeThe European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) on Tuesday awarded €95,000 in compensation to three Russian nationals, who had complained of ill-treatment by police.13:31 02.05.2017
Moscow office of Otkrytaya Rossia NGO raided by police – KhodorkovskyPolice officers are conducting searches at the Moscow office of Otkrytaya Rossia NGO declared an “undesirable” organization, former Russian tycoon and founder of the organization Mikhail Khodorkovsky wrote on his Twitter account on Thursday.18:05 27.04.2017
Bill expanding powers of police officers reaches State DumaA bill expanding powers of police officers has been submitted to the State Duma.17:45 11.04.2017
Ex-police officer charged with taking bribe from notorious Russian gang goes on trialFormer police officer from the Moscow Region Vadim Shavlokhov will stand trial on charges of receiving $100,000 in bribes from members of a gang allegedly involved in multiple murders.15:35 31.03.2017
Final charges brought against alleged participants of violent clashes at Moscow cemeteryInvestigators have brought final charges against defendants in a criminal case over violent clashes, involving large numbers of people, at the Khovansky cemetery in Moscow.12:57 28.03.2017