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Yekaterinburg Court Places 6 Azerbaijanis in Pre-Trial Detention Amid Cold-Case Probe

Police initially arrested over 50 people in connection with the unsolved murders of Azerbaijani businessmen dating back to the early 2000s.

Ex-Deputy Defense Minister Timur Ivanov Sentenced to 13 Years in Prison

A judge in Moscow also ordered the former defense official to pay a fine of $1.2 million and stripped him of his state awards.

‘Jesus of Siberia’ Cult Leader Sentenced to 12 Years in Prison

Sergei Torop, a former traffic officer who calls himself “Vissarion,” founded the Church of the Last Testament in 1991 after what he described as a...

U.S. Grand Jury Indicts Russian Scientist for Allegedly Smuggling Frog Embryos

Harvard Medical School researcher Ksenia Petrova was also indicted on charges of giving false statements and concealment of a material fact.

Prosecutors File Civil Suit Against Dagestan State Secretary

Magomed-Sultan was reportedly arrested on Wednesday in Makhachkala following searches at dozens of properties linked to him and his family.

Plagiarism Campaigner Zayakin Jailed 5 Years in Absentia for Navalny Donation

Dissernet co-founder Dmitry Zayakin is believed to have fled Russia in October 2022 after he was arrested and charged with “financing extremist activities...

St. Petersburg Court Places Woman in Pre-Trial Detention for Attempted Murder of Drone Company Employee

Law enforcement officials arrested the woman last week after she allegedly tried but failed to place an explosive device under the employee’s car.

Prosecutors Seek 14.5-Year Prison Sentence for Ex-Deputy Defense Minister Ivanov

Timur Ivanov was arrested in April 2024, part of what would later become a wider Kremlin crackdown on corruption within the Defense Ministry.

Russian Court Fines Wikipedia Operator Nearly $40K Over ‘Pedophilia Propaganda’

This is at least the seventh administrative case the court has heard against the Wikimedia Foundation in the past seven years, Mediazona reported.

Belgorod Court Sentences Activist Who Helped Ukrainian Refugees to 22 Years in Prison

Nadezhda Rossinskaya’s Army of Beauties volunteer initiative claims to have helped 25,000 people in occupied Ukraine between 2022 and 2023.

Moscow Court Rules to Nationalize Domodedovo Airport

The airport’s ultimate beneficial owners were reportedly accused of transferring $228 million of profits abroad between 2021 and 2023.

St. Petersburg Bookstore Manager Fined Over Sale of Anarchist Memoir

Podpisniye Izdaniya was said to have sold Belarusian anarchist Ihar Alinevich’s 2013 memoir “I’m Off to Magadan.”

Russian Scientist Freed on Bail in U.S. After Frog Embryo Smuggling Charge

Ksenia Petrova was formally charged last month with attempting to smuggle frog embryos and embryonic samples into the United States.

Shlosberg Placed Under House Arrest Pending Trial

Authorities accuse the Pskov region opposition figure of repeatedly “discrediting” the Russian military under wartime censorship laws.

Russian Court Jails Exiled Navalny Ally Volkov 18 Years in Absentia

Among the charges against the activist were organizing and financing an “extremist” organization, justifying terrorism and “rehabilitating Nazism...

Suspect in Apparent Assassination of Mariupol Siege Air Commander Arrested in Southern Russia

Major Zaur Gurtsiyev was killed along with an acquaintance, Nikita Penkov, in a bomb blast on May 28 in the city of Stavropol.

Yekaterinburg Editor Accused of Bribing Former Police Officer

Denis Allayarov, an editor at the pro-Kremlin news agency Ura.ru, was accused of bribing his uncle, a former senior police officer allegedly dismissed...

Ex-Manager of Russia’s ‘Troll Factory’ Sentenced to 10 Years in Prison

A St. Petersburg judge found the former head of Patriot Media Group, Ilya Gorbunov, guilty of extortion and drug trafficking.

Ryazan News Editor Accused of Extortion Released on House Arrest

Alexei Frolov, who headed the Ryazan bureau of Novaya Gazeta until his arrest in January, was detained alongside two other local journalists.

Jailed Billionaire Vadim Moshkovich Charged With Fraud

Moshkovich, the founder of agricultural giant Rusagro, was arrested in late March on charges of large-scale fraud and abuse of office.

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