Russian court declines returning seized money during raids
September 11th, 2012 - 5:38 am ICT by IANS
Moscow, Sep 11 (IANS/RIA Novosti) A Moscow court has ruled legal a refusal by investigators to return over $1.7 mn seized from an apartment of opposition activist Ksenia Sobchak during ... Read more...
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One-armed Russian bombmaker to face trial
August 29th, 2012 - 7:54 am ICT by IANS
Moscow, Aug 29 (IANS/RIA Novosti) A man who continued to make bombs even after he lost an arm and partial eyesight while experimenting with explosives will face trial in a ... Read more...
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Russian court upholds 12-year sentence for US spy
July 30th, 2012 - 11:51 pm ICT by IANS
Moscow, July 30 (IANS/RIA Novosti) Russian Supreme Court Monday upheld a 12-year jail sentence for an ex-serviceman for selling classified topographic maps to the US.A Moscow city court established in ... Read more...
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Russian professors jailed for selling missile secrets to China
June 20th, 2012 - 10:17 pm ICT by IANS
Moscow, June 20 (IANS/RIA Novosti) A Russian court Wednesday sentenced two university professors to long prison terms for selling military secrets, including sensitive data on Russia's Bulava missile system, to ... Read more...
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Russian convicted of leaking military secrets
May 18th, 2012 - 8:44 pm ICT by IANS
Moscow, May 18 (IANS/RIA Novosti) A Russian court has convicted an employee at a defence firm for passing on secrets about latest Russian weapons to a foreign intelligence service, and ... Read more...
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Russian court clears minor from repaying mum’s debt
May 11th, 2012 - 5:43 am ICT by IANS
Moscow, May 11 (IANS/RIA Novosti) A court in Moscow has ruled to clear a nine-year-old boy from repaying a debt of 561,000 rubles ($19,000) that he inherited from his late ... Read more...
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Russian court declines considering election suit
April 28th, 2012 - 5:35 am ICT by IANS
Moscow, April 28 (IANS/RIA Novosti) Russian Supreme Court has turned down a lawsuit against the presidential elections' outcome that saw Prime Minister Vladimir Putin win by a landslide March 4, ... Read more...
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Russian court fines man $20 mn for wildfire
April 10th, 2012 - 3:56 pm ICT by IANS
Ulan-Ude (Russia), April 10 (IANS/RIA Novosti) A court in Russia has fined a man 581 million rubles ($19.6 million) after his discarded cigarette butt started a fire which destroyed two ... Read more...
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Wanted sex trafficker extradited to Russia
March 31st, 2012 - 8:56 pm ICT by IANS
Moscow, March 31 (IANS/RIA Novosti) A Russian woman accused of sex trafficking, and on an international wanted list since 2010, has been extradited from Germany to face charges in Russia.Svetlana ... Read more...
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Russian court dismisses plea to ban Gita (Second Lead)
March 21st, 2012 - 9:41 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, March 21 (IANS) Hindus in Russia Wednesday won a major legal battle when a court in Siberia dismissed a state prosecutors' case seeking a ban a Russian translation ... Read more...
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Russian court dismisses case seeking Gita ban
March 21st, 2012 - 10:52 am ICT by IANS
New Delhi, March 21 (IANS) A court in Russia has dismissed a case that sought a ban on the Bhagwad Gita.Hindus in Russia Wednesday won the case when Tomsk city ... Read more...
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Russian court resumes hearing on Gita ban
March 20th, 2012 - 5:16 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, March 20 (IANS) Putting to test India's diplomatic skills to find an amicable solution to a Russian state prosecutors' bid to get Hindus' holy text Bhagavad Gita ... Read more...
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‘Ban Gita’ court battle restarts in Russia (Lead)
February 16th, 2012 - 10:05 pm ICT by IANS
Moscow/New Delhi, Feb 16 (IANS) Hindus in Russia are bracing for a fresh court battle against attempts in the Siberian city of Tomsk to get their sacred 'Bhagavad Gita' branded ... Read more...
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India’s stand on ‘ban Gita’ case in Russia vindicated: Government
December 29th, 2011 - 10:31 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Dec 29 (IANS) With a court in the Russian city of Tomsk dismissing a 'ban the Gita' case Wednesday, the Indian government Thursday said its views that ... Read more...
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India welcomes Russian court’s dismissal of Gita ban plea
December 28th, 2011 - 10:10 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Dec 28 (IANS) India has welcomed the dismissal by a Russian court of a plea to ban the Hindu holy scripture the Bhagvad Gita."We are happy to learn ... Read more...
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Russian court dismisses plea to ban Gita (Lead)
December 28th, 2011 - 6:44 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Dec 28 (IANS) Hindus in Russia Wednesday won a hard-fought six-month battle in a Siberian court against a plea to ban the Bhagavad Gita, among their holiest of ... Read more...
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Russian court begins final hearing in ‘ban Gita’ case
December 28th, 2011 - 3:39 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Dec 28 (IANS) A court in Russia Wednesday began its final hearing in a state prosecutors' case seeking a ban on the Bhagavad Gita, one of the holiest ... Read more...
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Gita row sparks storm, India flags issue at ‘highest level’ (Roundup)
December 20th, 2011 - 9:11 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Dec 20 (IANS) A move by a Russian court to ban the Bhagavad Gita, first reported by IANS, remained a hot issue Tuesday with political parties raising ... Read more...
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Despite advance notice on ‘ban Gita’ move in Russia, not much done (Lead)
December 20th, 2011 - 8:23 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Dec 20 (IANS) The Indian government had advance notice of a move in a Russian court to ban the Bhagvad Gita as an extremist text in the ... Read more...
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Gita row snowballs, India raises issue at ‘highest levels’ (Evening Lead)
December 20th, 2011 - 5:10 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Dec 20 (IANS) The case in a Russian court to ban the Bhagavad Gita continued to create an uproar Tuesday with political parties voicing their concern in ... Read more...
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Rajya Sabha condemns Russian move to ban Gita
December 20th, 2011 - 3:32 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Dec 20 (IANS) The Rajya Sabha Tuesday condemned the move in a Russian court to ban the Bhagavad Gita as an extremist text, and the ... Read more...
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India taking serious note of Gita case in Russia
December 20th, 2011 - 3:12 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Dec 20 (IANS) Describing a complaint about the Bhagvad Gita in Russia as "patently absurd", India Tuesday said it was taking seriously the controversy and was closely monitoring ... Read more...
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Russian court bans painting showing Mickey Mouse as Christ
August 20th, 2011 - 11:03 am ICT by IANS
Moscow, Aug 20 (IANS/RIA Novosti) A court in Russia has banned a painting that depicted Mickey Mouse as Jesus Christ, saying it was "extremist".Alexander Savko's "Sermon on the Mount" painting ... Read more...
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Medvedev to pardon jailed actress who set afire ex-hubby’s house
July 15th, 2011 - 10:30 am ICT by IANS
Moscow, July 15 (IANS/RIA Novosti) Russian President Dmitry Medvedev will pardon a jailed actress for setting on fire her ex-husband's apartment after he took away their daughter, the Kremlin said.A ... Read more...
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Russian court raps officials’ sack for speaking out
June 30th, 2011 - 10:34 pm ICT by IANS
Moscow, June 30 (IANS/RIA Novosti) A Russian court Thursday ruled in favour of two former state officials who filed complaints after they were sacked for criticising the institutions they worked ... Read more...
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Russian actress sentenced in France seeks pardon from Medvedev
May 27th, 2011 - 2:34 am ICT by IANS
Moscow, May 27 (IANS/RIA Novosti) Russian actress Natalia Zakharova, who is serving a three-year sentence for setting fire to her French ex-husband's apartment after he took away their daughter, ... Read more...
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Russian man jailed for assaulting fortune teller who predicted he would go to jail
August 9th, 2010 - 10:59 pm ICT by BNO News
MOSCOW (BNO NEWS) -- A Russian court has sentenced a man to more than two dozen years in prison for assaulting a Gypsy fortune teller who predicted that he would be jailed, ... Read more...
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Grandson loses legal attempt to rehabilitate Soviet dictator Stalin’s reputation
October 14th, 2009 - 4:38 pm ICT by ANI
Moscow, Oct.14 (ANI): Yevgeny Dzhugashvili, a grandson of Soviet Union dictator Josef Stalin, has lost a legal battle to rehabilitate the latter's murderous reputation posthumously. A Russian court threw out a libel ... Read more...
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Russian court rules open trial in journalist’s murder case
November 17th, 2008 - 9:14 pm ICT by IANS
Moscow, Nov 17 (RIA Novosti) Three men charged in the October 2006 murder of Russian investigative journalist Anna Politkovskaya will be tried in an open court, a Moscow military judge ruled Monday. ... Read more...
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Russian court rules opposition leader’s arrest illegal
March 21st, 2008 - 11:26 pm ICT by admin
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St. Petersburg (Russia), March 21 (RIA Novosti) A city court here Friday ruled that the arrest of an opposition party leader for allegedly attacking a police officer in early March was ... Read more...
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