Theme: court rulings

Mr. O., a native of Kyrgyzstan and a stateless person, who had been living in Russia for more than 15 years, has been kept in a temporary detention centre for foreign nationals for 8 months, since September 2019. The court…

For the UN Human Rights Committee session 129 Russian Federation The list of issues regarding access to fair trial and torture of representatives of ethnic and religious minorities   Based on field work and monitoring, ADC Memorial and Citizens’ Watch…

The COVID-19 pandemic has become the central event of early 2020, shading coverage of other important topics. One of them is the trial over the 2014 downing of the passenger aircraft Boeing-777 of the Malaysian Airlines. Literally several days before…

The long history of ties between Russia and Norway dates back to the Middle Ages, when trade started to flourish. In the 17th and 18th centuries, a pidgin language known as Russenorsk (or Moja på tvoja), which coast dwellers and…

On May 14, 2019, Dzerzhinsky district court of St. Petersburg overruled the earlier resolution concerning undesirability of the stay of Mr. Ts., a HIV-positive citizen of Moldova, in the Russian Federation, which had been issued by the office of Russia’s…

Moscow city court has accepted a claim by The Barents Observer to challenge Russia’s censorship and media regulation agency Roskomnadzor’s arguments to ban the newspaper. The Norwegian-based, bi-lingual newspaper has been blocked in Russia since February after it refused to…