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Russian Supreme Court to set venue in ex-Culture official case over Hermitage embezzlement

Russia’s Supreme Court is to rule on the proper venue in the case of fraudulent embezzlement of more than 900 million rubles (about $14.8 million) allocated for the reconstruction of the Hermitage Museum against ex-official of the Culture Ministry Boris Mazo.

12:25 03.08.2022

Russian court designates ultra-nationalist Ukrainian battalion as terrorist organisation

Russia's Supreme Court has granted a move of the Prosecutor General's Office to designate ultra-nationalist Ukrainian Azov battalion, whose symbol resembles a black swastika on a yellow background, as a terrorist organisation.

13:47 02.08.2022

Ex-Transaero owners’ move to lift seizure of property worth $4 billion dismissed

Russia's Supreme Court has dismissed the complaints of former owners and top managers of Transaero air carrier challenging the seizure of their property worth 245 billion rubles (about $4 billion at the current exchange rate), according to the court ruling.

16:51 01.08.2022

DPR court to proceed with case of Ukrainian neo-Nazi group in August

A court in the Donetsk People’s Republic will start hearing the case of the Ukrainian neo-Nazi group SS Bears on August 1 in, the Donetsk News Agency reports Thursday.

17:05 28.07.2022

Crimean Supreme Court recognizes WWII civilian massacres as genocide

The Supreme Court of Crimea has recognized the massacres of civilians committed by the Nazis on the peninsula during the Great Patriotic War as genocide.

11:24 07.07.2022

Russian Supreme Court pushes for streamlining procedures governing judges’ career advances

A plenum of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation has proposed to submit to the State Duma a bill that would allow judges to be assigned a higher grade without taking into account the place of work of the judge and without observing the sequence of assignment of grades.

13:26 28.06.2022

Crimean Supreme Court to hear on genocide during Great Patriotic War

The Supreme Court of Crimea is to start considering the case of genocide of the Soviet people during the years of the occupation of the peninsula during the Great Patriotic War on June 27.

18:13 20.06.2022

About 47,000 matters considered by Donetsk People’s Republic courts in 2022

For the period from January to May 2022, the courts of the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) conducted proceedings on 46,918 cases and materials, according to a statistical report presented on the official website of the Supreme Court of the DPR.

16:08 16.06.2022

Supreme Court stands for limited scope of detention orders

The Supreme Court is to discuss the possibility of expanding the list of criminal cases in which an exceptional procedure for choosing a measure of restraint in the form of detention is applied, as well as reducing the amounts of bails used as a measure of restraint, the Court’s head Vyacheslav Lebedev said addressing a meeting of delegates of the 10th All-Russian Congress of Judges.

13:02 16.06.2022

Supreme Court upholds 20-year sentence of ex-Moscow institute’s lecturer for treason

The Supreme Court of Russia dismissed a cassation appeal against a 20-year prison term given to the former assistant professor at the Moscow Aviation Institute Alexey Vorobyev for treason, the court’s press service told RAPSI on Thursday.

17:28 09.06.2022

Russian Supreme Court bans denial of conviction expungement for not guilty plea

The Supreme Court of Russia has prohibited lower courts to deny expungement of record if a convict had pleaded not guilty.

13:21 07.06.2022

Five convicted of Nazism rehabilitation in Russia in first half of 2021

Five individuals were convicted of the rehabilitation of Nazism in Russia in the first six months of 2021, according to the official statistics of the Supreme Court’s Justice Department.

10:56 21.10.2021

Russian Supreme Court upholds harsh ex-Inter RAO board member’s sentence for espionage

The Supreme Court of Russia on Thursday upheld severe sentence passed on ex-board member of Inter RAO energy holding Karina Tsurkan against her long prison sentence for espionage.

16:36 14.10.2021

Supreme Court overturns all decisions extending detention of businessman Ponomarev

The Presidium of the Russian Supreme Court has canceled all lower courts’ decisions extending the term of detention of businessman Konstantin Ponomarev, known for his legal battles with IKEA.

13:20 13.10.2021

Appeal against ex-Inter RAO board member’s for espionage pending in Supreme Court

The Supreme Court of Russia will consider a cassation appeal filed by ex-board member of Inter RAO energy holding Karina Tsurkan against her long prison sentence for espionage on October 14.

12:14 06.10.2021

Russian Supreme Court head urges to create international e-platform for judicial interaction

Chairman of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation Vyacheslav Lebedev proposes to create an international electronic platform for judicial interaction for the exchange of documents on international legal assistance.

11:30 30.09.2021

Number of prisoners reduced in Russia by 11,300 since start of 2020 – Supreme Court

The number of convicted persons serving sentence in Russia’s penitentiary facilities has decreased by 11,300 since the beginning of the year, the Supreme Court’s Chairman Vyacheslav Lebedev has announced during the XVI meeting of the SCO Supreme Courts’ heads.

14:01 24.09.2021

Parole of ex-Senator Torlopov overturned by Supreme Court of Russia’s Komi Republic

The Supreme Court of the Republic of Komi has overturned a lower court decision to grant parole to former senator Vladimir Torlopov, who was sentenced to 6.5 years in prison in the case of ex-head of the Komi Republic Vyacheslav Gaizer.

13:49 17.09.2021

Russian Supreme Court backs initiation of new case against ex-Moscow judge

The Supreme Court of Russia has upheld the Higher Judges' Qualifications Board’s decision to launch a new criminal case against ex-judge of the Moscow Commercial Court Igor Korogodov.

14:14 16.09.2021

Russian Supreme Court urges to rely on ECHR position as to application procedures for convicts

The Russian Supreme Court has considered a complaint of a convict, who was denied meetings with his representatives to prepare a petition to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) by the administration of the respective penitentiary facility.

17:56 15.09.2021