Trial & Litigation

About 47,000 matters considered by Donetsk People’s Republic courts in 2022

For the period from January to May 2022, the courts of the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) conducted proceedings on 46,918 cases and materials, according to a statistical report presented on the official website of the Supreme Court of the DPR.

16:08 16.06.2022

Russian court fines Swiss Threema $14K for breaching rules for messaging providers

An 800,000-ruble (about $14K) fine has been imposed on Threema GmbH for failure to comply with Russian legislation governing instant messaging providers.

15:54 16.06.2022

Google fined $264K for repeated refusal to localize data of Russian citizens

Google 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 orders

The 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 label

Moscow’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 case

A 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 parole

The 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

Aeroflot top manager detained in large-scale fraud case

Moscow’s Khoroshevsky District Court on Wednesday ordered the detention of Mikhail Minayev, the head of the Aeroflot fleet planning and development department, on large-scale fraud charges.

12:49 15.06.2022

Moscow court detains Russian woman on treason allegations

Moscow’s Lefortovsky District Court on Tuesday placed Russian citizen Yekaterina Zavalishina in detention until August 13 as part of a treason case.

18:45 14.06.2022

Ex-attorney charged with fraud to be held in detention until fall – court

The Basmanny District Court of Moscow has extended detention of the former attorney Vadim Lyalin, who stands charged with large-scale fraud, until September 15.

14:09 14.06.2022

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Crimean Supreme Court recognizes WWII civilian massacres as genocide

The Supreme Court of Crimea has recognized the massacres of civilians committed by the Nazis on the peninsula during the Great Patriotic War as genocide.

11:24 07.07.2022

Three Russian police generals detained in abuse of authority case

Three Russian police generals, including an assistant to the Interior Minister, have been detained until September 5 on abuse of authority charges related to misappropriating a fund based in Saint Petersburg.

10:34 07.07.2022

Russian restaurateur Beloivan declared bankrupt

The Moscow Commercial Court has declared the owner of Tavern Taras Bulba restaurant chain Yury Beloivan bankrupt upon a petition filed by a Moscow inspection of the Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS).

13:21 06.07.2022