On January 23, the Russian Supreme Court will consider supervisory appeals against the sentence handed down to ex-YUKOS CEO Mikhail Khodorkovsky and his business partner Platon Lebedev in the second case, Khodorkovsky’s press center reported Friday.
Russia’s Federal Drug Control Service has drafted a law to suspend the operation of the NGOs that accept funding from foreigners with a criminal record and are on the list of persons who are denied entry into Russia, Izvestia newspaper reported Friday.
One of two freed members of punk protest band Pussy Riot, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, said on Friday their release was aimed solely at improving Russia’s image before it hosts the Winter Olympic Games and was not a humanitarian gesture.
Mikhail Kalashnikov, the 94-year-old inventor of the world’s most popular firearm, the AK-47, died Monday in a Russian hospital, a local government official said.
The case of Dmitry Altaichinov, who participated in the May 2012 protest rally in Bolotnaya Square in Moscow, has been sent to court, the Prosecutor General’s Office announced on Monday.
Both jailed members of Russian punk protest band Pussy Riot have been freed early from prison under an amnesty law.
A masked man abruptly started shooting “haphazardly” from a gas-powered gun on a Moscow Region commuter train on Sunday morning, injuring a fellow passenger, police said.
An earthquake registered at magnitude 5.6 near its epicenter rattled the Russian region of Khakassia in eastern Siberia early Sunday morning.
A Russian court convicted a computer hacker who broke into the presidential website to 18 months of probation, a court representative said Monday.
President Vladimir Putin has signed a document giving Russia’s Federal Security Service the power to investigate cybercrime, the Kremlin announced Monday.
