Former Vneshprombank co-owner loses appeal against bankruptcyThe Ninth Commercial Court of Appeals has upheld a lower court’s decision to initiate debt restructuring as part of bankruptcy procedure against former Vneshprombank co-owner Georgy Bedzhamov charged with embezzlement.10:33 24.11.2017
Ex-Russian senator fined $8,500 for shooting at Moscow hotelThe former member of Russia’s Federation Council, the upper house of parliament, Umar Dzhabrailov on Wednesday was fined 500,000 rubles ($8,500) for shooting at one of Moscow’s hotels.12:58 22.11.2017
Russian Human Rights Council criticizes bill on “foreign agent” label for mediaRussia’s Presidential Council for Civil Society and Human Rights had criticized a bill which allows the state to designate foreign media receiving financing from abroad as “foreign agents”.15:42 20.11.2017
Ex-Russian senator appeals 8.5-year sentence for $3.3 mln embezzlementFormer Russian senator and owner of Liviz liquor producer Alexander Sabadash has filed an appeal against his 8.5-year prison sentence for embezzling 190 million rubles ($3.3 million) from Bank Tavrichesky.17:22 10.11.2017
Prosecutors seek to extend Vladivostok ex-mayor’s detentionProsecutors have demanded to extend detention of former Vladivostok mayor Igor Pushkarev charged with abuse of office and bribery until February 28.12:59 09.11.2017
Russian penitentiary official allegedly involved in embezzlement put in jailThe Basmanny District Court of Moscow on Thursday ordered the detention of Deputy chief of the Federal Penitentiary Service’s (FSIN) financial and economic directorate Svetlana Alekseyeva charged with aiding and abetting embezzlement.17:40 19.10.2017
Victims ask court to reverse sentence of Nemtsov murder case convictRelatives of late opposition politician Boris Nemtsov have asked Russia’s Supreme Court to reverse the sentence of Khamzat Bakhayev, one of the five men convicted of his murder.14:30 10.10.2017
Teenagers convicted of animal cruelty appeal against sentenceThree defendants convicted in a criminal case over cruel murders of animals have filed appeals against the sentence.10:19 21.09.2017
Putin toughens penalties for illegal alcohol circulationRussian President Vladimir Putin has signed a bill toughening penalties for illegal production and sale of alcohol and alcohol-containing products into law.13:07 27.07.2017
Federation Council approves bill on procedures related to Russian citizenshipThe upper house of the Russian parliament has approved a bill permitting to strip convicted terrorists of citizenship and introducing an oath of allegiance to the Russian Federation when obtaining the citizenship.17:03 25.07.2017
Russian national sentenced to 5 years in U.S. prison for bribing EBRD officerBusinessman Dmitry Harder charged with bribing an official of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) in London has been sentenced to 5 years in prison; in addition, under an agreement with the prosecution he has been ordered to forfeit $1.9 million, that being confirmed by the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.12:59 20.07.2017
Social network group admin gets over 3 years in prison for pushing teens to suicideThe Tobolsk District Court of the Tyumen region in Russia has sentenced Philipp Budeykin, aka Philipp Lis, 21, to 3 years and 4 months in a penal colony settlement for inducing teenagers to suicide.18:01 19.07.2017
State Duma adopts bills on procedures related to Russian citizenshipThe State Duma, the Russian Parliament’s lower house, has passed in the third reading a package of bills permitting to strip convicted terrorists of citizenship and introducing an oath of allegiance to the Russian Federation when obtaining the citizenship.11:57 19.07.2017
Navalny, his accomplices ordered to pay $35,500 to KirovlesMoscow’s Nikulinsky District Court on Tuesday ordered opposition politician Alexey Navalny and two other defendants in the embezzlement case to pay 2.1 million rubles (about $35,500) to the Kirovles timber company.13:56 18.07.2017
Chelyabinsk ex-governor appeals to Supreme Court over his arrest in absentiaMikhail Yurevich, former governor of the Chelyabinsk Region, who stands charged with taking 26 million rubles (about $440,000 at the current exchange rate) in bribes, filed an appeal against his arrest in absentia with Russia’s Supreme Court.11:58 18.07.2017
Moscow court receives results of disabled convict’s medical examinationMoscow’s Timiryazevsky District Court has registered a report on medical examination results of Anton Mamayev, a wheelchair person sentenced to 4.5 years in prison for armed robbery, submitted by the Federal Penitentiary Service.18:08 17.07.2017
Prosecutor demands 4-year jail term for alleged organizer of unlawful referendumProsecutor had demanded a 4-year prison term for a RBC journalist Alexander Sokolov, charged with masterminding the activities of an extremist organization.14:21 17.07.2017
AFK Sistema reports $66 mln loan default over asset seizureHolding company AFK Sistema reported on Monday about a technical default on 3.9 billion rubles ($66 million) that resulted from the court-ordered seizure of 185 billion rubles ($3.1 billion) in assets.11:28 17.07.2017
Businessman charged with bribing Mari El Republic’s ex-head arrested in absentia againMoscow’s Basmanny District Court on Friday repeatedly arrested Nikolay Krivash, founder of Akashevskaya poultry factory, who stands charged with giving a bribe to Russia’s Mari El Republic Leonid Markelov, in absentia.15:54 14.07.2017
Probe into bribery case against Federal Guard Service General completedInvestigation into the Federal Guard Service (FSO) General Gennady Lopyrev, who stands charged with taking a grand bribe, has been completed.14:56 06.07.2017