- 16:56 13/05/2013
The Russian Justice Ministry said on Monday it had launched an administrative case against a regional office of Russia's Golos Association, an independent election monitoring NGO, for failing to register as a "foreign agent."
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- 19:20 08/05/2013
The Armenian government on Wednesday allocated €112,000 ($145,226) to the Ministry of Justice to pay damages and legal fees to 17 conscientious objectors in compliance with a 2012 ruling by the European Court of Human Rights, the government press service said.1
- 23:49 30/04/2013
The United States on Tuesday called on Ukraine to release Yulia Tymoshenko, the jailed former prime minister and a leader of the ex-Soviet republic’s 2004 “Orange Revolution” who became a strident opponent of the current government.2
- 22:21 19/04/2013
The European Court of Human Rights has handed down a ruling that rights activists called unprecedented in its implication of Chechen law enforcement officials in a kidnapping case.2
- 02:43 06/04/2013
The European Court for Human Rights (ECHR) notified Russian authorities that it had received an application from a political activist demanding a compensation of 500,000 euros (approximately $650) from the state, defense lawyer Dmitry Agranovsky told the RAPSI news agency on Friday.
- 21:57 11/02/2013
The Russian government has challenged the European Court of Human Rights’ ruling that there were procedural violations in the trial of former Yukos security chief Alexei Pichugin, who was sentenced to life in prison on murder charges, his lawyer Ksenia Kostromina said on Monday.
- 21:03 28/01/2013
Russian opposition figurehead and anti-corruption activist Alexei Navalny has appealed to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), seeking compensation for his detention at a camp-out staged to protest President Vladimir Putin's third term, his lawyer said on Monday.
- 20:10 24/01/2013
Pavel Samburov exudes confidence when he recalls the night in October, on International Coming Out Day, when a group of masked hoodlums stormed and ransacked a Moscow gay club.
- 15:14 14/01/2013
Russia’s Justice Ministry denied registration to the country’s Pirate Party over gripes with its allegedly misleading title, the party said on Monday.
- 13:12 03/12/2012
A brief look at what is in the Russian papers today
- 12:58 27/11/2012
A mixed martial arts world champion was convicted on Tuesday of killing a student in a case that brought Russia’s fraught ethnic tensions to the surface.
- 14:04 23/10/2012
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has ruled that there were procedural violations in the trial of a former Yukos security chief, who was sentenced to life on murder charges, the court said on Tuesday.
- 20:49 19/10/2012
In a controversial ruling that has drawn the ire of the Russian Foreign Ministry, the European Court of Human Rights has ordered Moscow to pay 1 million euros to Moldovans denied the opportunity to study their language in the Latin, rather than the Cyrillic, alphabet.
- 08:56 19/10/2012
A brief look at what is in the Russian papers today
- 06:58 19/10/2012
Yekaterina Samutsevich, a member of the anti-Putin punk group Pussy Riot, has lodged a complaint with the European Court of Human Rights, Kommersant daily reported on Friday.5
- 19:14 09/09/2012
The Ukrainian opposition is set to file a lawsuit against the country’s president Victor Yanukovych to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), an opposition leader said on Sunday.
- 18:16 27/08/2012
Georgia may soon take a decision on granting refugee status to Adam Osmayev, one of the suspects in an alleged plot to assassinate Russian President Vladimir Putin, Osmayev’s lawyer Valery Kochetov said on Monday.
- 16:17 27/08/2012
The unregistered opposition party The Other Russia will field its own candidate for mayor of the Moscow satellite city of Khimki, party leader Eduard Limonov said on Monday.
- 23:41 25/08/2012
Ukraine has extradited to Russia one of the suspects in a plot to assassinate President Vladimir Putin, Russia’s Channel One reported on Saturday.1
