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Russian opposition figures ordered to pay $1.4 mln to school catering company

The Moscow Commercial Court on Monday ordered opposition politicians Alexey Navalny and Lyubov Sobol, as well as an anticorruption NGO, to compensate 88 million rubles (about $1.4 million) to a company supplying food to schools. Navalny was also to retract and remove certain incorrect information from his YouTube channel.

18:05 28.10.2019

Moscow court to check lawfulness of Navalny’s foundation foreign agent status

Moscow’s Zamoskvoretsky District Court is to hear an administrative case brought by a nonprofit organization established by opposition politician Alexey Navalny, seeking to reverse a Justice Ministry’s decision to add the foundation to the list of NGOs acting as foreign agents, on November 1.

17:13 28.10.2019

Ex-Dagestan official convicted of embezzlement faces corruption trial - prosecutors

A former stand-in chairman of the government of Dagestan Abdusamad Gamidov, who was convicted of embezzlement on Monday, is also charged with several counts of corruption crimes, deputy chief of the Prosecutor General’s Office’s Department for Supervision over Investigation of Major Cases Sergey Bochkarev told RAPSI.

16:57 28.10.2019

Russia's major semiconductor manufacturer declared bankrupt

The Moscow Commercial Court has declared Angstrem-T, the leading Russia’s semiconductor manufacturer, bankrupt.

15:02 28.10.2019

Two ex-officials of Russia’s Dagestan ordered to jail for $640k embezzlement

Two ex-officials of Russia’s Republic of Dagestan on Monday were sentenced to prison for embezzlement of 41 million rubles (over $640,000).

14:00 28.10.2019

Putin presses for criminalization of online drug propaganda

Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered the government to draft a bill fixing criminal punishment for online inducing to drug use and propaganda of drugs.

13:24 28.10.2019

Two former Dagestani officials found guilty of $640,000 embezzlement

Moscow’s Lefortovsky District Court on Monday found a former stand-in chairman of the government of Dagestan Abdusamad Gamidov and a former stand-in deputy prime minister Rayudin Yusufov guilty of embezzling 41 million rubles (over $640,000).

12:48 28.10.2019

Soldier charged with killing comrades-in-arms put in detention for two months

A garrison military court in Chita, a city in Russia’s Zabaikalye Territory, ordered soldier Ramil Shamsutdinov, who had allegedly done the deadly shooting in a military unit, to be detained for two months.

11:11 28.10.2019

Russian Supreme Court upholds bankruptcy of Yugra bank

The Supreme Court of Russia has dismissed a petition filed by the representative of Yugra bank members Alexander Suchkov and refused to overturn a bankruptcy ruling against the financial organization.

10:59 28.10.2019

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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