The European Court ruled on Tuesday that the Russian government violated several articles in the European Convention on Human Rights over the course of its 11-month pre-trial detention and posthumous criminal conviction of Sergei Magnitsky, a Russian tax auditor and government corruption whistleblower, who was found dead on the floor of his small jail cell in northeastern Moscow ten years ago. 

For the third weekend in a row Moscow authorities have gone after protesters agitating for free city elections, arresting demonstrators at a higher rate than earlier, even though the crowd was smaller.

Russian authorities have begun investigating the Foundation for the Fight Against Corruption of jailed opposition figure Alexei Navalny, on suspicion of laundering one billion rubles (US$15.3 million), the Investigative Committee of Russia said in a statement. 

Moscow Mayor Sergey Sobyanin offered on Monday to approve the next round of free-election protests planned for Saturday on the condition that they be held in a less central location, a suggestion which organizers quickly rejected.

Moscow authorities detained on Saturday more than 1,000 protesters who were demanding free elections while opposition leader Alexei Navalny was hospitalized after being exposed to a substance that resulted in an allergic reaction.

Russian businessmen used a network of shell companies to buy a South Carolina theme park before leaving it bankrupt.

Moscow police detained six people suspected of illegal cash withdrawals, after the group’s monthly turnover reached 100 million Russian rubles (US$1.59 million),TASS news agency reported Friday quoting the police.

The Russian Ministry of Interior Affairs announced on Wednesday that it detained a suspect in a case of 16 stolen barrels of pine seed worth four million rubles (USD$63,500).

The Russian Ministry of Interior announced on Friday that 10 people will stand trial for allegedly conducting 4 billion rubles (US$64 million) of illegal banking activities in the Russian Chuvash Republic.

Filming near the residence of Russian president Vladimir Putin may come at the cost of one's freedom, three journalists learned upon being detained Monday in Moscow, Russianmedia reported.

Montenegro aspires to join the EU. But banking documents from the Troika Laundromat show that the country is a destination for millions of illicit dollars from Russia — and expose how the money was moved.

The Russian government removed the names of all Crimean business owners from the public registry on Tuesday in a move that scorned anti-corruption and organized crime advocates throughout the region.

A defendant tried to make a quick exit from his Tuesday morning corruption trial in Moscow by declaring he did nothing wrong, pulling out a razor and cutting his wrist, The Moscow Times reported.

Moscow police detained about 200 out of the 2,000 people who marched on Wednesday to show support for journalist Ivan Golunov, even though he was released a day earlier.

The Russian Minister of the Interior announced on Tuesday that charges against Ivan Golunov were dropped and he was released from custody. He also said that he petitioned the Kremlin for officials involved in the case to be investigated.

A former Russian anti-corruption official was sentenced to 13 years in prison on Monday for being corrupt himself and was sent to a maximum security correctional facility, according to The Moscow Times.

With his official salary, it would take the head bodyguard of Russia’s prime minister more than 100 years to pay for this luxury home.

Meduza hasallowed media free distribution of Ivan Golunov’s investigations that were previously copyrighted in order to spread the work of the journalist, whom authorities have put under house arrest after accusing him of drug dealing.

The family of Vladimir Zhirinovsky, a controversial elder statesman of Russian politics and leader of the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia, owns undeclared property worth an estimated $135 million.

The reputations of the police chief in charge of the investigation and the doctor who assessed the condition of Ivan Golunov, the journalist who was arrested last week and charged with intent to sell drugs, have come under fire for their opaque histories.