Trial & Litigation

Sentence toughened against Navalny’s spokesperson in sanitary rules breaching case

Moscow’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

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

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Moscow court keeps ex-deputy of minister for emergencies in detention

The Moscow City Court upheld the detention of Andrey Gurovich, former deputy of minister for emergencies, who stands charged with abuse of power.

16:45 09.08.2022

Ex-Russian TV journalist fined for discrediting Russian army

Former Russian TV journalist Marina Ovsyannikova was fined 40,000 rubles (about $650 at the current exchange rate) after being found guilty of discrediting the country's armed forces in social media post.

16:15 08.08.2022

Vneshprombank ex-managers appeal against court decision over their liability

Former top managers of Vneshprombank have appealed against a court decision bringing them to subsidiary liability for the obligations of the bank.

12:32 09.08.2022