Bolotnaya activist Nepomnyashchikh to remain under house arrest until...
Moscow’s Zamoskvoretsky District Court has extended until February 29 the house arrest of Ivan Nepomnyashchikh, who stands accused of participation in the Bolotnaya Square riots in 2012 and use of...
View ArticleLukoil to join Rosnedra against Rosneft lawsuit
Lukoil West Siberia will join the Federal Agency for Mineral Resources (Rosnedra) in a dispute with Rosneft regarding a tender on the right to manage the natural resources in the Vostochno-Taimyrskoye...
View ArticleRussian court releases dying HIV positive convict
The Sverdlovsk Regional Court has overturned an earlier court ruling that denied the release of an HIV positive prisoner.
View ArticleProsecutor demands 13 years for alleged mastermind of 1998 murder of Russian...
The prosecutor on Friday requested 13 years in prison for Mikhail Glushchenko, a former lawmaker in the State Duma, Russian parliament's lower chamber, who stands accused of organizing the murder of...
View ArticleEx-Ukrainian pilot Savchenko’s case to be heard by court in Rostov Region
The Donetsk City Court in the Rostov Region will consider a case against ex-Ukrainian military pilot Nadezhda Savchenko who stands charged with complicity in the murder of two Russian journalists.
View ArticleMoscow court mitigates sentence for one of Oboronservis case defendants
The Moscow City Court on Friday reduced the sentence from 48 to 46 months in prison for Irina Yegorova, one of the defendants in the Oboronservis embezzlement case.
View ArticleRussia seeks seizure of Moscow Region ex-official Kuznetsov’s assets abroad
The Russian Investigative Committee has sent requests to Switzerland, France, Cyprus and the US on freezing bank accounts and seizing the real property of the former Moscow Region finance minister...
View ArticleThree suspects in Nemtsov murder case to stay in detention until late November
The Basmanny District Court of Moscow on Monday extended the detention of three suspects in the murder of Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov.
View ArticleMoscow Commercial Court dismisses My Bank bankruptcy hearing
At the request of the Deposit Insurance Agency (DIA), My Bank’s insolvency administrator, the Moscow Commercial Court dismissed the bank’s bankruptcy hearing due to the contested debt having been repaid.
View ArticleBolotnaya activist Nepomnyashchikh pleads not guilty – lawyer
Ivan Nepomnyashchikh, who stands accused of participation in the Bolotnaya Square riots in 2012 and use of violence against law enforcement officials, has pleaded not guilty to the charges brought...
View ArticleRussian court sentences Ukrainian filmmaker to 20 years in prison for terrorism
The North Caucasus District Military Court on Tuesday sentenced Ukrainian film director Oleg Sentsov to 20 years in prison for organizing a terrorist group in Crimea.
View ArticleRussia extradites former Ukrainian official suspected of embezzling $14,700
Russia has extradited a former utilities official from the Zaporizhia Region who allegedly embezzled over 325,000 hryvnias (about $14,700), to Ukraine.
View ArticleRusnano ex-finance director to remain in detention
The Moscow City Court has upheld the detention of former Rusnano (formerly Russian Corporation of Nanotechnologies) financial director Svyatoslav Ponurov who stands charged with embezzlement of 220...
View ArticleRussian opposition politician arrested in Kostroma
The police in Kostroma arrested opposition politician Ilya Yashin, deputy head of the Republican Party of Russia–People’s Freedom Party (RPR-PARNAS), for violating a Kostroma Region noise control act.
View ArticleRussian MP Ponomaryov’s arrest in absentia upheld
The Moscow City Court has upheld the arrest in absentia of Ilya Ponomaryov, a lawmaker in the lower house of parliament, the State Duma, involved in the Skolkovo Foundation embezzlement case.
View ArticleNemtsov’s daughter turns to ECHR over slack investigation
Zhanna Nemtsova, the daughter of the opposition politician Boris Nemtsov who was killed in Moscow in February 2015, has filed a complaint with the European Court of Human Rights regarding the...
View ArticleMakhachkala ex-mayor receives life sentence for murder
The North Caucasus District Court has given a life sentence to Said Amirov, the ex-Mayor of Makhachkala, for the murder of the chief of the local Investigative Committee office and other crimes.
View ArticleProsecutor demands 17 years for alleged mastermind of 1998 murder of Russian...
The prosecutors have requested that the court sentence Mikhail Glushchenko, a former lawmaker in the State Duma, Russian parliament's lower chamber, to 17 years in prison, or four years more than...
View ArticleRussian billionaire Fetisov’s embezzlement case returned for further...
The Prosecutor General’s Office has returned the embezzlement case against Gleb Fetisov, former member of the upper house of parliament and former owner of My Bank, to the Investigative Committee.
View ArticleInvestigation into Total CEO’s plane crash completed
The investigation into the crash of Total CEO Christophe de Margerie’s plane has been completed.
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