Alexei Navalny stands trial for timber embezzlement
Whistleblowing blogger turned opposition leader Alexei Navalny is charged with the theft of over 10,000 cubic meters of timber, which was allegedly stolen from Kirovles company between May and September 2009. If convicted Navalny faces up to ten years in prison. The case was initially dropped, but was revived when an inquiry was launched by Investigative Committee Chairman Alexander Bastrykin.
Russian tycoons on the run find safe haven in UK
Domestic Violence in Russia
MMA fighter Red Tarzan sentenced to five years
MMA Champ Mirzayev sentencing
Charges laid in Defense Ministry large-scale fraud investigation
Pussy Riot sentence appeal hearing
Anders Breivik sentencing - live video
RAPSI hosted a live video broadcast as well as live text coverage of the verdict and sentence expected to be handed down against confessed Norwegian mass killer Anders Behring Breivik Friday.
Pussy Riot members found guilty, sentenced to 2 years
Pussy Riot members Natalia Tolokonnikova, Maria Alyokhina, and Yekaterina Samutsevich have been convicted of hooliganism and sentenced to 2 years in prison.
Trial over participants of “teddy bear photo session” in Minsk