Russian President signs decree on external debt paymentPresident of Russia Vladimir Putin has signed a decree establishing a new temporary procedure of payment of the country’s foreign debt. The document was published on the official website of legal information.17:20 22.06.2022
Russia’s upper house of parliament approves legalization of parallel importsThe Federation Council, the upper house of the Russian Parliament, has approved a government bill providing for the legalization of parallel imports of goods.14:45 22.06.2022
State Duma adopts bill toughening punishment for tortureThe lower house of Russian parliament passed a bill on tough sentence of up to 15 years in prison for tortures in a final third reading on Wednesday.13:05 22.06.2022
Russia’s lower house of parliament backs legalization of parallel importsRussia’s State Duma has adopted a bill on the legalization of parallel imports.17:01 21.06.2022
State Duma passes bill banning foreign companies from tapping mineral resources in RussiaThe State Duma adopted a draft law imposing a ban on the issuance of licenses for developing Russia’s vital mineral resources to foreign companies in the third and final reading on Tuesday.16:20 21.06.2022
Russia lodges protest with EU over transit ban to Kaliningrad regionRussia has lodged a strong protest with the European Union against a rail blockade imposed on the transit through Lithuania’s territory of a large range of goods between the Kaliningrad region and the rest of the territory of the Russian Federation.15:02 21.06.2022
Ex-Russian ecology official Oleg Mitvol pleads guilty to fraudOleg Mitvol, a former official of Russia’s environment agency Rosprirodnadzor, charged with especially serious fraud, has made a plea bargain.11:09 21.06.2022
Crimean Supreme Court to hear on genocide during Great Patriotic WarThe Supreme Court of Crimea is to start considering the case of genocide of the Soviet people during the years of the occupation of the peninsula during the Great Patriotic War on June 27.18:13 20.06.2022
Russian court upholds nationwide ban on MetaThe Moscow City Court upheld on Monday the prohibition of Meta Platforms Inc in Russia for extremist activity.17:38 20.06.2022
Russia lodges protest against Lithuania’s restrictions of transit to Kaliningrad regionRussia has strongly protested against Lithuania's decision to impose a ban on rail transit through its territory of a large range of goods to the Kaliningrad region, and demands an intimidate lifting of these restrictions.15:15 20.06.2022
Ex-official of Russian Aerospace Forces jailed for 5 years for corruptionThe Moscow Garrison Military Court on Monday sentenced ex-head of the Russian Aerospace Forces’ radar troops Andrey Koban to 5 years behind bars as part of a bribery case.12:32 20.06.2022
Google's Russian subsidiary files for bankruptcyGoogle's Russian subsidiary filed for bankruptcy as the branch had been fined several times and its bank account had been seized by Russian authorities.10:59 17.06.2022
Sentence toughened against Navalny’s spokesperson in sanitary rules breaching caseMoscow’s Meshchansky District Court has replaced 1.5-year restriction of liberty imposed on Kira Yarmysh, the spokesperson of a foundation founded by Alexey Navalny, for breaching sanitary norms at an illegal rally held in January 2021 with a real prison term.10:04 17.06.2022
Russia extends retaliatory stop list by adding 121 AustraliansThe Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced Thursday the introduction of restrictive measures against 121 Australians, including heads of law enforcement agencies, business persons, experts and journalists.19:53 16.06.2022
Google fined $264K for repeated refusal to localize data of Russian citizensGoogle LLC was fined 15 million rubles (about $264,000) on Thursday for repeated refusal to locate personal data of Russian users in the Russian Federation.14:06 16.06.2022
Supreme Court stands for limited scope of detention ordersThe Supreme Court is to discuss the possibility of expanding the list of criminal cases in which an exceptional procedure for choosing a measure of restraint in the form of detention is applied, as well as reducing the amounts of bails used as a measure of restraint, the Court’s head Vyacheslav Lebedev said addressing a meeting of delegates of the 10th All-Russian Congress of Judges.13:02 16.06.2022
Moscow court to proceed with blogger Dud’s suit against foreign agent labelMoscow’s Lefortovsky District Court will proceed with an administrative lawsuit lodged by journalist and blogger Yury Dud challenging his mass media-foreign agent status.12:31 16.06.2022
Prosecutor seeks 9-year terms for lawyers involved in Aeroflot embezzlement caseA prosecutor has demanded 9 years in jail for lawyers Alexander Slivko and Dina Kibets each in the Aeroflot embezzlement case.10:27 16.06.2022
Urals photographer convicted of killing model wife granted paroleThe Chkalovsky District Court of Yekaterinburg granted a petition for parole filed by Urals photographer Dmitry Loshagin, who had been convicted of killing his wife, model Yulia Prokopyeva.18:16 15.06.2022
Death penalty should be retained in Donetsk People’s Republic - State Duma speakerThe death penalty should be retained in the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR), especially in wartime conditions, Chairman of the State Duma, the lower house of Russian parliament, Vyacheslav Volodin stated on Wednesday in a post on his Telegram channel.15:45 15.06.2022