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Police to submit investigation on whistleblower to prosecutor's office

The police will continue to look into whistleblower Alexei Navalny, who was summoned on Wednesday alongside several other activists of the RosPil anti-corruption project.

16:03 14.03.2012

Renowned whistleblower summoned to police

The Moscow police have summoned renowned whistleblower Alexei Navalny and several of his supporters in the RosPil anticorruption project upon the request of the Moscow Prosecutor's Office.

17:45 13.03.2012

Khodorkovsky gives no comments on Medvedev's order to examine his sentence

Former YUKOS head Mikhail Khodorkovsky, who was sentenced to 13 years in jail for oil theft and money laundering, refused to comment on the president's order to the Prosecutor General's Office to examine lawfulness of his sentence.

16:16 06.03.2012

Prosecutor's office to look into Defense Ministrys $1 mln website

The Prosecutor General's Office has reported on Tuesday legal violations committed during update works on the Defense Ministry's website.

14:04 06.03.2012

Prosecutors warn opposition leaders

The Moscow Prosecutor's Office has issued warnings not to break the law to independent opposition leaders, including Boris Nemtsov, Alexei Navalny and Sergei Udaltsov.

16:22 05.03.2012

Complaint over using mosque image in Metro Cash & Carry advertising rejected

The Volga District Federal Commercial Court has held against the prosecutors' complaint against the refusal to ban Metro Cash & Carry from using Qolsharif Mosque image in its adverts.

13:23 02.03.2012

Prosecutor's office warns against publishing voting results on election day

The Moscow prosecutor's office has warned a voting right protection organization to refrain from prematurely publishing the results of the presidential elections scheduled for March 4.

12:28 02.03.2012

Heineken union leaders seek job reinstatement in court

Fired Heineken Joint Breweries trade union leaders have filed a lawsuit with a district court to regain their employment, Vitaly Morozov, one of the fired trade unionists.

14:30 27.02.2012

Gold mine fined for nondisclosure

An assay inspectorate has fined Pokrovky Mine for a failure to inform the Federal Financial Monitoring Service about its transactions.

12:16 27.02.2012

Scholars to set up independent expert commission on extremism

Participants of the Bhagavad Gita in History and Modern Society academic conference proposed to set up an independent board of scholars to evaluate various texts for signs of extremism.

12:08 27.02.2012

U.S. court dismisses Ukrainian ex-minister's lawsuit against Prosecutor General

The United States District Court for the District of Columbia dismissed the lawsuit filed by Ukrainian ex-Interior Minister Yuriy Lutsenko, charged with abuse of office, against Prosecutor General Victor Pshonka and several of his subordinates.

12:41 24.02.2012

Bhagavad Gita case perplex scientists

Experts and scientists gathering at the all-Russian conference "Bhagavad Gita in history and modern society" at the Tomsk University said they were perplexed over the prosecutor's office's lawsuit seeking to declare "Bhagavad Gita as It Is" commentary extremist.

11:48 24.02.2012

Prosecutors' suit against сommentary on Bhagavad Gita reasonable - expert

Head of the Justice Ministry's religion expert council Alexander Dvorkin holds that the Tomsk prosecutor's office has good reasons to declare сommentary on Bhagavad Gita extremist.

11:54 21.02.2012

U.S. court waits for explanations from Ukrainian ex-minister

Former Ukrainian Interior Minister Yuriy Lutsenko has not fulfilled the U.S. court's orders in his lawsuit against Prosecutor General Viktor Pshonka. The court is waiting for an explanation.

17:00 16.02.2012

Bhagavad Gita case misunderstood by society - prosecutor's office

First Deputy Prosecutor General Alexander Buksman told journalists on Thursday that people misunderstand the prosecutor's office's claim to declare the Russian version of "Bhagavad Gita As It Is" an extremist text.

12:21 16.02.2012

Heineken illegally fired protesting employees - prosecutor's office

The prosecutor's office of St. Petersburg's Nevsky district cancelled the St. Petersburg-based Heineken Brewery's decision to fire two employees for taking part in the protest rallies.

11:47 16.02.2012

Decision to release martial arts champion on bail quashed

The court invalidated on Tuesday the decision to release martial arts champion Rasul Mirzayev on a $3,345 bail.

17:44 14.02.2012

Appeal in Bhagavad Gita case to be heard in March

The Tomsk Regional Court will hear on March 6 the local prosecutor's office's appeal against the first-instance court's refusal to declare a Russian version of the "Bhagavad Gita As It Is" Hindu scripture an extremist text.

16:05 14.02.2012

Prosecutor's office appeals adverse judgment in Bhagavad Gita case

The Prosecutor's Office has appealed the court's refusal to declare a Russian version of the "Bhagavad Gita As It Is" Hindu scripture an extremist text.

15:41 01.02.2012

14 prosecutors fired for illegal gambling network link

14 employees of the Moscow Region Prosecutor's Office were discharged after a gambling scandal broke out in spring 2011.

12:35 31.01.2012