Every year, the Russian judicial system...

The former management of the Federal Compulsory Medical Insurance Fund (FFOMS) was sentenced to a total of 47 years for accepting bribes and performing illegal operations with regard to supply of crucial medicines. Seven of the 11 high-ranking officials in the case were found guilty by a jury.

The corrupt nature of the business, the high rank of those involved, and to a large extent, the area in which the illegal activity involving the provision of vital medicines was carried out sustained public interest in this case.

Maximum punishment for child killers

A married couple in Moscow region, Vladimir Grechushkin and Irene-Sofia Baskaya were found guilty of the cruel and unusual punishment and torture of their adopted children, as well as the murder of one of them. In mid-December, Grechushkin was sentenced to life in prison and Baskaya to 16 years in a minimum security prison. The criminal case, which aroused intense

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