Trial & Litigation

Moscow court sentences Major General Melnikov to 7 years in prison for bribery

The Moscow Khamovnichesky District Court has sentenced Major General Alexander Melnikov, a senior officer of the Central Chief Directorate of the Interior Ministry, to 7 years in a strict regime colony in a case over attempted bribery on an especially large scale.

17:35 30.06.2022

Native of Tajikistan sentenced to 9 years in Russia for abetting terrorism

The Southern District Military Court has sentenced a native of Tajikistan Fayzali Khalimkhonov to 9 years in high-security penal colony for facilitating terrorist activity.

11:04 30.06.2022

Businessman gets 20 years in president’s residence construction embezzlement case

The Second Western District Military Court has sentenced Forum Holding CEO Dmitry Mikhalchenko to 20 years in high-security penal colony for embezzling nearly 1.2 billion rubles during the construction of a presidential residence near Moscow.

17:13 29.06.2022

Moscow court fines image sharing platform Pinterest $38k over data storage

A magistrate judge in Moscow on Tuesday fined image sharing and social media service Pinterest 2 million rubles (about $38,000) over failure to localize Russian users’ personal data in the Russian Federation.

14:45 28.06.2022

Russian Supreme Court pushes for streamlining procedures governing judges’ career advances

A plenum of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation has proposed to submit to the State Duma a bill that would allow judges to be assigned a higher grade without taking into account the place of work of the judge and without observing the sequence of assignment of grades.

13:26 28.06.2022

Streaming company Twitch fined $38k for refusal to localize data of Russian citizens

Video streaming service Twitch Interactive was fined 2 million rubles (about $37,7k at the time of writing) on Tuesday for refusal to locate personal data of Russian users in the Russian Federation, the Moscow Tagansky District Court’s press service told RAPSI.

12:44 28.06.2022

Environmental violations up in Russia by almost 3 times — Supreme Court head

The number of cases related to violations of the environmental legislation has increased in Russia by almost 3 times over the past 10 years, the Supreme Court Chairman Vyacheslav Lebedev said during the presidium meeting on Friday.

15:36 24.06.2022

Russian woman sentenced to 11 years behind bars for abetting terrorism

The South District Military Court has sentenced Russian national Darya Bolgova to 11 years in penal colony for abetting terrorism and participating in a terrorist organization.

10:25 23.06.2022

Russian prosecutors seek qualification of WWII massacres in Belgorod region as genocide

The Russian Prosecutor General's Office has petitioned the Belgorod Regional Court to recognize the massacres committed by the Nazis on the territory of the Belgorod Region during the Great Patriotic War as war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide of the Soviet people.

17:40 22.06.2022

Ex-Russian ecology official Oleg Mitvol pleads guilty to fraud

Oleg 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

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Third foreigner ordered to death challenges sentence in Supreme Court of DPR

Briton Aiden Aslin, who had been ordered to death along with two other foreign citizens in the Donetsk People’s Republic, challenged his sentence.

11:17 05.07.2022

Russia’s State Duma backs creation of extremist materials database

The lower house of parliament, the State Duma, adopted a bill to create a specialized information database of extremist materials in a final third reading on Tuesday.

13:24 05.07.2022

Number of appeals to Russian children's ombudsman increased by 2% in 2021

The number of appeals to the Commissioner for Children's Rights in Russia Maria Lvova-Belova turned out to be by 2% more in 2021 as compared with the same period of the preceding year.

12:09 01.07.2022