US court slams re-homing while considering Russian adoption claim
MOSCOW, December 17 (RAPSI, Alexander Karpov) – During the hearing of an application filed by an American family seeking to void the adoption of two Russian kids, Nassau County judge raised a question...
View ArticleWine and beer ads could be back on Russian TV
MOSCOW, December 20 (RAPSI) - Russian government proposed to amend the Federal Law "On Advertising", to allow previously banned alcohol ads back on television, TASS reports on Saturday.
View ArticleTwo more members of extremist Islamic organization sentenced in Tatarstan
MOSCOW, December 30 (RAPSI) – The Supreme Court of Tatarstan, a predominantly Muslim republic in Russia, has handed down guilty verdicts on two members of an extremist Islamic group, RIA Novosti...
View ArticleRussian suspected of involvement in 1991 unrest to remain in Lithuanian...
MOSCOW, December 30 (RAPSI) – A court in Lithuania upheld the extension of detention of Russian national Yuri Mel (born 1968) suspected of involvement in clashes in January 1991 after declaration of...
View ArticleAnother Russian national arrested for joining Hizb ut-Tahrir cell
SAMARA, January 15 (RAPSI) – On January 14, a court in Russian city of Samara issued a warrant to arrest a resident of the region on charges of being a member of the international organization Hizb...
View ArticleSakharov Center faces $7,500 fine for alleged violation of NGO law
The Sakharov Center, one of the leading Russian NGOs which which houses a museum of dissidence, faces a fine of up to $7,500 for allegedly violating an NGO law.
View ArticleTrial of last Aum Shinrikyo sect leader begins in Tokyo
MOSCOW, January 16 (RAPSI) – The trial of the last of the three principal Aum Shinrikyo sect leaders, Katsuya Takahashi, who escaped justice for 17 years, has begun in a Tokyo district court, RIA...
View ArticleRequest for probe into alleged mistreatment of Magnitsky dismissed
MOSCOW, January 16 (RAPSI, Diana Gutsul) - Russia's Investigative Committee has refused to launch a probe into alleged mistreatment of Hermitage Capital auditor Sergei Magnitsky who died in 2009 in a...
View ArticleGML to press for recognition of Yukos $50 bln compensation ruling
MOSCOW, January 16 (RAPSI) - Group Menatep Limited (GML) will continue registering the decision of the Hague Arbitration, which ruled that Russia must pay over $50 billion to Yukos ex-shareholders, a...
View ArticleUkraine sues LUKOIL for terrorism financing
MOSCOW, January 16 (RAPSI) – The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) announced that it has opened a case on terrorism financing against companies of the LUKOIL group and the East European Energy Company...
View ArticleMuscovite jailed for staging protest, holding 'Je suis Charlie' poster
Moscow's Tverskoy District Court on Friday sentenced Muscovite Mark Galperin to 8 days in jail for staging an unuathorised protest in the city, holding 'Je suis Charlie' poster.
View ArticleDismissal of Russian national’s suit against MasterCard upheld
MOSCOW, January 16 (RAPSI) – The Moscow City Court on Friday upheld the dismissal of a lawsuit filed by Russian national Alexander Moskovkin against MasterCard, which blocked his card after the US...
View ArticleNavalny's Anti-Corruption Foundation leaders probed for fraud
MOSCOW, January 16 (RAPSI) – Russia’s Investigative Committee is conducting a fraud investigation at Alexei Navalny’s Anti-Corruption Foundation, TASS reported on Friday, citing the Investigative...
View ArticleFour suspects in French hostage crisis to be charged on Tuesday
MOSCOW, January 20 (RAPSI) – Paris prosecutors have formulated charges for four accomplices of Amedy Coulibaly, the man who killed four hostages in a kosher grocery in eastern Paris, Associated Press...
View ArticlePublic inquiry into Litvinenko’s death to end on March 31
MOSCOW, January 20 (RAPSI) – A public inquiry into the death eight years ago of former KGB officer Alexander Litvinenko will end on March 31, RIA Novosti reported on Tuesday, citing the coroner Sir...
View ArticleUkraine issues arrest warrant for ousted president Yanukovich
A court in Kiev has issued an arrest warrant for former president of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovich, according to a statement of Prosecutor General’s Office released on Tuesday.
View ArticleBashneft, LUKOIL win litigation over Trebs and Titov oil fields license
The Ninth Commercial Court of Appeals has overturned a judgment of the Moscow Commercial Court against Bashneft and LUKOIL over the license for the Trebs and Titov oil fields.
View ArticleRussian national accused of bribery to stand trial in US in March
MOSCOW, January 23 (RAPSI) – Dual citizen of Russia and Germany, Dmitri Harder, accused of bribery in the U.S. is set to face trial in Philadelphia on March 5, according to the records of Eastern...
View ArticleTrial of Russian suspected of ties with Syrian fighters to resume in February
MOSCOW, January 23 (RAPSI) – The trial of Russian national Magomed Zakriev, who is suspected of ties with Syrian religious fanatics, will continue in Austria in February, RIA Novosti reports on Friday,...
View ArticleCourt orders medical treatment for Bolotnaya Square protester Kosenko
Moscow's Nagatinsky District Court extended compulsory outpatient treatment to Mikhail Kosenko who was found guilty of participating in the Bolotnaya Square riots on May 6, 2012, and of using of...
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