Moscow school shooter’s parents to pay $39,000 to victim’s familyThe Moscow City Court has upheld a lower court’s ruling ordering parents of school student Sergey Gordeev, who took his classmates hostage and shot two people in February 2014, to pay 2.5 million rubles (about $39,000) to the family of the teen’s victim, geography teacher Andrei Kirillov.13:50 12.09.2016
Return of embezzlement case against Russian tycoon Polonsky to prosecutors upheldThe Moscow City Court on Tuesday upheld a lower court’s decision to send a case against Russian businessman Sergei Polonsky, who stands charged with embezzling 2.6 billion rubles ($40 million), back to prosecutors for toughening indictment.13:57 06.09.2016
Appeal of Russian hydropower giant’s ex-chairman set for September 12The Moscow City Court will review an appeal filed by the former Management Board Chairman of Russia’s hydropower giant RusHydro Yevgeny Dod against arrest of his property on September 12.13:56 05.09.2016
Investigation into Russian border agency’s ex-head completedInvestigation into Dmitry Bezdelov, former head of the Federal Border Development Agency charged with embezzling over 1.17 billion rubles (about $18 million), has been completed.13:35 01.09.2016
Moscow City Court refuses to change Navalny’s suspended term to imprisonmentThe Moscow City Court has upheld the ruling of a lower court, which refused to change a suspended sentence for opposition politician Alexei Navalny in the Yves Rocher embezzlement case to imprisonment.10:32 01.09.2016
Ban on Golos NGO appealed in Moscow courtThe Golos association in defense of voters’ rights filed an appeal with the Moscow City Court challenging a lower court’s ruling banning the organization.17:48 29.08.2016
Corruption case against high-ranking investigators was opened lawfully - courtThe Moscow City Court on Thursday confirmed the legitimacy of instituting a bribery case against the First Deputy Head of the Investigative Committee’s Moscow Directorate Denis Nikandrov and his alleged accomplices.13:53 25.08.2016
Moscow court finds ATAKA movement to be extremist, bans it in RussiaThe Moscow City Court had found the ATAKA movement to be extremist and prohibited it from carrying out activities in the territory of the Russian Federation.13:44 12.08.2016
Moscow court uphold detention of Russian student charged with attempting to join ISISThe Moscow City Court has upheld the ruling of a lower court extending the detention of Varvara Karaulova (Alexandra Ivanova), a student, who stands charged with attempting to join the Islamic State militants in Syria, till September 27.14:13 28.07.2016
Russian court to rule on detention of high-ranking investigator charged with briberyThe Moscow City Court had set the review of an appellation against detention of the head of Russian Investigative Committee’s Internal Security Directorate, Mikhail Maksimenko, suspected of receiving a large-scale bribe, for August 2.12:36 27.07.2016
Orthodox activist charged in exhibition attack to stay under house arrest until DecemberThe Moscow City Court has upheld the ruling of a lower court to extend the detention of Lyudmila Yesipenko, an activist of ultra-conservative Orthodox group Bozhya Volya (God’s Will), who stands charged with vandalizing an art exhibition.16:37 25.07.2016
Court upholds return of Russian nationalist Demushkin case to Prosecutor’s OfficeThe Moscow City Court ruled the return of a criminal case against Russian nationalist Dmitry Demushkin, who was accused of publishing extremist materials on the Internet, to be lawful.12:48 25.07.2016
Russian court upholds ruling which puts former co-owner of Vneshprombank on wanted listThe Moscow City Court has upheld the ruling of a lower court putting co-owner of the Vneshprombank Georgy Bedzhamov, who is accused of large-scale fraud, on the international wanted list.19:22 20.07.2016
Alleged organizer of 2002 Moscow theater hostage crisis to stay in jail till OctoberThe Moscow City Court has extended the detention of Khasan Zakayev, an alleged mastermind of the hostage seizure at the Dubrovka theater in southeast Moscow in 2002 that left 130 dead, until October 21.17:12 18.07.2016
Moscow court upholds extended detention of tycoon PolonskyThe Moscow City Court has upheld the extended detention of real estate tycoon Sergei Polonsky, who stands accused of large scale fraud during the construction of two residential complexes, until August 12.17:45 14.07.2016
Vladivostok mayor’s brother to stay under house arrest in bribery caseThe Moscow City Court has upheld the house arrest of Andrei Pushkarev, the brother of Vladivostok Mayor charged with abuse of office and commercial bribery.13:51 11.07.2016
Moscow court mitigates sentence for Deputy chief of Russia’s customs serviceThe Moscow City Court on Monday reduced the sentence given to Ruslan Lagutkin, deputy head of Russia’s Federal Customs Service, for embezzling 38 million rubles (over $591,000), to 5.5 years in prison.12:30 11.07.2016
Russian governor Belykh charged with bribery denied $436,000 bailThe Moscow City Court on Wednesday denied a 28-million ruble (about $436,000) bail to Kirov region governor Nikita Belykh who stands charged with taking bribes.14:58 06.07.2016
Moscow Court upholds detention of Russia’s hydropower giant’s ex-chairmanThe Moscow City Court has upheld the ruling of a lower court on detention of Former Management Board Chairman of Russia’s hydropower giant RusHydro Yevgeny Dod in an embezzlement criminal case.14:50 05.07.2016
Domodedovo airport owner released from house arrestThe Moscow City Court on Friday ordered release of the Domodedovo airport owner Dmitriy Kamenshchik charged in the case over 2011 terrorist attack from the house arrest.12:33 01.07.2016