Three witnesses claim Ukrainian pilot Savchenko is innocentInvestigators have added three witness testimonies to the case of Ukrainian pilot Nadezhda Savchenko, RAPSI reports on Friday from the Basmanny District Court in Moscow.13:18 07.11.2014
Law under which Yanukovich can be tried in absentia becomes effective in UkraineA law on trial in absentia, under which a trial of the alleged crimes of former resident Viktor Yanukovich can be completed, became effective on Friday.10:40 31.10.2014
Ukrainian pilot arrested in Russia elected to parliament - reportThe leader of the Batkivshchyna party, Yulia Tymoshenko, said she hopes that the election to parliament will help ensure the release of Ukrainian pilot Nadezhda Savchenko, who has been charged with complicity in the death of Russian journalists in southeastern Ukraine, UNIAN news agency reports.10:37 27.10.2014
Leader of infamous Russian 90's murder syndicate gets life in prisonThe leader and a member of the infamous Orekhovo organized crime group, which spreed throughout Moscow and the Moscow Region in the 1990s, were sentenced in Moscow, a court told RIA Novosti.16:02 23.10.2014
Defense of Ukrainian pilot claims mistreatment at Moscow psychiatric clinicNikolai Polozov, an attorney for Ukrainian military pilot Nadezhda Savchenko who is suspected of involvement in the murder of two Russian journalists, claims she is mistreated at a Moscow psychiatric hospital.17:04 17.10.2014
Alleged Russian hacker faces new charges in the USAn additional 11 cyber fraud charges will be brought against Russian national Roman Seleznev on October 16 in Seattle, spokeswoman for Washington’s Western District attorney Emily Langley told RIA Novosti.11:08 10.10.2014
French court to hear new case against Carlos the JackalA court in France will soon hear a new case against international terrorist Ilich Ramírez Sánchez also known as Carlos the Jackal who is serving two life sentences in a French prison, RIA Novosti reports on Tuesday.16:26 07.10.2014
Radovan Karadzic insists on his innocence in final ICTY statementFormer president of the Republika Srpska Radovan Karadzic began his final statement in The Hague hearing of his crimes against humanity.15:53 01.10.2014
Italian president summoned to testify in mafia bombings caseItalian President Giorgio Napolitano will testify in a scandalous case regarding the alleged secret talks held by the Italian government with the Sicilian mafia over a series of deadly bombings in the early 1990s, a Palermo court said.10:31 26.09.2014
Ukrainian pilot Savchenko to undergo psychiatric examinationUkrainian pilot Nadezhda Savchenko suspected of involvement in the murder of two Russian journalists will undergo a mental examination, the official spokesperson for the Investigative Committee, Vladimir Markin, told the media.15:21 24.09.2014
Radovan Karadzic trial reaches closing argumentsNext week the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in The Hague, Netherlands, will hear the closing arguments in the case of former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic in connection with war crimes in Bosnia and Herzegovina in the 1990s, the tribunal said in a statement published on Tuesday.17:21 23.09.2014
Men suspected of stealing $11,000 cat to remain in detentionMoscow's Golovinsky District Court has extended until November 24 the detention of two men charged with stealing a rare caracal kitten valued at over $11,000 from a woman in Moscow.12:12 23.09.2014
Spanish officials to stand trial in Russian mafia case - reportCatalonia’s High Court of Justice has ruled that there is sufficient cause to try Andrei Petrov, an alleged leader of the Russian mafia in Spain, local lawmaker Javier Crespo and other individuals suspected of involvement in the so-called Russian mafia case.10:30 23.09.2014
Saakashvili’s trial delayed until NovemberThe trial of ex-President of Georgia Mikheil Saakashvili on charges of the dispersal of an opposition rally in November 2007, the raid of Imedi television station offices and the seizure of billionaire Badri Patarkatsishvili’s property has been delayed until November 19.13:14 22.09.2014
Russian police general charged with running a gang to remain in detentionThe Moscow City Court has dismissed an appeal filed by Lieutenant General Denis Sugrobov, who headed the Economic Security and Anti-Corruption Department at the Interior Ministry, against the extension of his detention, the court’s press office told RAPSI on Friday.14:03 19.09.2014
Russian court will not hear Estonian ‘spy’ defense motionAn Estonian citizen and officer of the Estonian security agency, KAPO, Eston Kohver, declined the services of a lawyer, after which the Lefortovsky District Court ceased consideration of his defense’s statements, a court spokesperson told RAPSI Wednesday.17:22 17.09.2014
Alleged mastermind of terror attack in Moscow to remain in detentionThe Moscow City Court has extended until November 21 the detention of Robert Amerkhanov, an accomplice of Yulai Davletbayev, who allegedly masterminded a terrorist attack which was foiled in Moscow in May 2013, the court’s press office told RAPSI on Wednesday.13:52 17.09.2014
Ukrainian pilot Savchenko to remain in Russian detentionA court in the southern city of Voronezh on Monday dismissed an appeal filed by Ukrainian pilot Nadezhda Savchenko who stands accused of having abetted the killings of two Russian journalists, against the extension of her detention, the court’s press office told RAPSI.15:20 15.09.2014
Girls strip at Moscow polling station, face trialThe girls who yesterday stripped to the waist in a central Moscow polling station in support of Ukraine will be held civilly liable, Interfax has announced, citing a source with inside information.13:55 15.09.2014
Opposition activist Navalny to remain under house arrest in Yves Rocher embezzlement caseMoscow's Zamoskvoretsky District Court on Wednesday rejected a request to detain opposition activist Alexei Navalny in the Yves Rocher embezzlement case, the court told RAPSI.15:52 01.08.2014