Court says no to Russia’s first statue honoring Czar Ivan the Terrible
An Oryol district court has temporarily banned the installation of Russia’s first statue to Czar Ivan the Terrible at a site proposed by the city authorities, the court’s press service said on Tuesday. On Tuesday, the Zavodskoy court began reviewing a lawsuit filed by an unnamed individual who said the monument’s construction was in a historic preservation zone of another site – the Magistrate building – which violates...
France’s highest court mulls bid to reverse burkini ban
France’s highest administrative court will Thursday examine a request to overturn a ban on the burkini after photographs of police surrounding a woman on a beach fuelled the controversy over the Islamic swimsuit. France’s Human Rights League is appealing a decision by the southern town of Villeneuve-Loubet, near Nice, which was one of the first of around 30 French towns to ban the burkini. A court in the Riviera city of...
Court to review arrest of man who took hostages in bank in Central Moscow
Moscow court is going to review arrest of the man who seized an office of Citibank on Moscow’s downtown Bolshaya Nikitskaya Street, a source close to the investigation told TASS. “Today, the investigator intends to apply to the court on election preventive measure in the form of detention in respect of the apprehended man,” the source said. “He will be assigned to psychological and psychiatric examination, which will...
Siberian court orders company to compensate gay woman for job rejection
A district court in the Russian city of Novosibirsk has ruled that a private company’s refusal to hire a gay woman as a sales manager was unlawful and ordered that 1,000 rubles (US$15) compensation be paid in moral damages. The Russian LGBT Network NGO reported that the Zheleznodorozhny District Court of Novosibirsk had satisfied the lawsuit filed by Anna Balash against the Sib-Alliance wood trading company. Balash claimed that she...
Russia to continue efforts to return home Russians jailed in US
The Russian authorities intend to continue their efforts to return home pilot Konstantin Yaroshenko and other Russians being held in the United States, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Thursday. “Russian diplomats and lawyers continue dealing with the case of Yaroshenko and other our citizens being held in the United States,” the presidential spokesman said. “We’ll continue safeguarding their interests and...
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