It took almost seven years for an attorney to prove that he was searched unlawfully. Don’t count out a prison cell, a begging bowl may come as well – a similar proverb is there in Russian also. But even a practising lawyer should not count out even indirect possibilities to be accused and prosecuted.

A federal law is approved, amending several provisions in the Housing Code of the Russian Federation and in some other federal laws regulating the field of housing and municipal utilities. In particular, new amendments address issues of access to information about house managing companies’ activities.

On July 16, 2010, the Central district court of the Komsomolsk-on-Amur (Khabarovsk Territory) stated to restrict access to several online libraries and to the YouTube. In the judges’ opinion, the sites publish extremistic materials so that access to the resources in question should be closed for security reasons.

A rather Kafkian “Process” is held in the Russian North-West against a historian that worked with archive documents: no access either to the case materials, or to the documents, or to information on investigative measures performed…

See the list of major normative legal acts regulating issues of access to legal information in Russian Federation.

See the list of major normative legal acts regulating general issues of access to information in the Russian Federation.