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Six members of Jehovah’s Witnesses banned in Russia face trial

A court in the city of Ulyanovsk will consider a criminal case against six members of Jehovah’s Witnesses, a religious organization banned in Russia, the press service of the Prosecutor General’s Office reports Wednesday.

17:04 15.04.2020

Moscow court fines beauty shop owner $700 for violating antivirus regulations

The Tverskoy District Court in Moscow has fined the owner of a beauty salon 50,000 rubles (about $700), since it continued to provide services to clients in violation to the lockdown orders from the capital’s authorities.

15:11 15.04.2020

Probe into 2019 deadly plane fire at Moscow airport completed

Investigation into aircraft captain Denis Yevdokimov over the deadly fire on board a passenger aircraft Sukhoi Superjet-100 (SSJ-100) at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo airport that had killed 41 people was completed.

14:26 15.04.2020

St. Petersburg court refuses to overturn coronavirus observatory isolation order

A court in St. Petersburg on Wednesday refused to overturn an order of Russia’s consumer rights watchdog Rospotrebnadzor obliging a Russian citizen, who had arrived from abroad, to be isolated for medical observation.

12:58 15.04.2020

Ex-Deputy PM assistant to stay detained till July in tourism bribery case

Moscow’s Basmanny District Court on Wednesday extended detention of Anastasia Alekseyeva, ex-assistant of the former Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich, in a tourism bribery case for three months.

11:59 15.04.2020

Probe opened into mass COVID-19 infection in Leningrad Region migrant hostel

A criminal case over sanitary and epidemiological violations resulted in the coronavirus mass infection has been opened in the Leningrad Region. The probe was launched after coronavirus 35 residents of a local migrant hostel had been tested positive for coronavirus.

10:50 15.04.2020

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