Theme: deportation

On June 14, 2018 the St. Petersburg city court has overruled an earlier decision of the Vyborg district court dated December 14, 2017 concerning administrative deportation of G., a native of Donetsk region of Ukraine. Earlier this person had been…

The Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs reported that it currently works on proposed amendments to Article 4.1 (“General Rules for Assignment of Administrative Penalties”) of the Code of Administrative Offenses, which gives the judges the opportunity to impose softer administrative…

In September 2017, Mr. K., a citizen of Uzbekistan, was detained in St. Petersburg for not having identity documents with him. Police officers charged him with violation of Article 18.8 Section 2 of the Russian Code of Administrative Offenses for…

In September 2017 Mr. L., a native of the Luhansk region (Ukraine), was detained in St. Petersburg without identity documents and found guilty by the court of violating the Russian immigration regulations. He was sentenced to a fine and administrative…

In February 2017 Mrs. N. was found guilty of violating the Russian migration regulations and was sentenced to a fine and administrative expulsion to Turkmenistan, whose citizenship it supposedly had according to the court. In October 2017 the embassy of…

Mrs. V, a citizen of Ukraine, has recently fallen victim of a kind of “know-how” of the Russian judicial system: she was convicted twice on the same day, September 11, 2017, during the session of the Kalininsky district court of…