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Sham lawyer charged with swindling client out of $4,200 to stand trial in Moscow

Russia’s Prosecutor General’s Office has approved an indictment in a criminal case against a man, who used a forged lawyer certificate to defraud his client out 300,000 rubles (about $4,200).

17:31 17.07.2020

Ex-head Russian Authors’ Society pleads guilty to $10.5 mln embezzlement in court

Ex-Director General of the Russian Authors’ Society (RAO) Sergey Fedotov on Friday pleaded guilty in court to embezzling over 762 million rubles (over $10.5 million at the current exchange rate).

16:23 17.07.2020

Russian man faces trial on charges of throwing Scottish fold kittens out of balcony

A 35-year resident of Russia’s Novokuznetsk will go on trial on accusations of throwing two Scottish fold kittens out of a balcony.

15:45 17.07.2020

Moscow police official put under house arrest on fraud allegations

A chief of the department on the online drug threat fight of the Interior Ministry’s Moscow Main Directorate has been placed under house arrest on fraud allegations.

14:38 17.07.2020

Two officers of Moscow detention center taken into custody in $70,000 bribery case

Two officers of Moscow city detention center Matrosskaya Tishina have been taken into custody on charges of taking bribes from detainees totaling to 5 million rubles (about $70,000) for supplying them with prohibited articles.

12:06 17.07.2020

Two new cases opened against prosecuted founder of Police Ombudsman public page

Two more criminal cases have been opened against Vladimir Vorontsov, the creator of the Telegram channel called Police Ombudsman.

11:59 17.07.2020

Security firm’s guard jailed for 2.5 years over boy’s murder in Russian kindergarten

A court in the Nenets Autonomous Area sentenced a guard of the private security firm Svyatogor, who had let a kid murder enter a kindergarten in the town of Naryan-Mar, to 2.5 years in penal colony.

10:40 17.07.2020

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Russian courts allowed not to implement rulings of Europe's human rights court

Russia's Supreme Court proposed not to implement rulings of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) and the provisions of the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (ECHR).

12:53 09.12.2025

Redomiciliation stalls: How sanctions are shaping new practices for Russian companies

The mechanism for redomiciliating foreign companies to Russian jurisdiction, in effect since 2018, has recently encountered serious obstacles. Taking into account the background of sanctions-related restrictions introduced in 2022 through 2025, it has become extremely difficult to achieve the goal. The situation gave rise to the phenomenon of dual domicile and led to a rise in the number of new litigations, both in Russia and abroad.

12:32 09.12.2025

Soldiers jailed for killing US journalist Russell Bentley

A military court in Donetsk sentenced three soldiers to up to 12 years in prison for torturing and killing Russell Bentley, a 63-year-old U.S. national who collaborated with Sputnik news agency.

14:05 08.12.2025