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General Jurisdiction Courts: Information on Incomes Can't Be Placed at Once 16 Aug 2013 | 04:31 pm
For two weeks, within a joint project with the Russian Legal Information Agency, FIF researchers collected information on Russian court chairpersons' incomes. This did not seem a difficult task: there...
The Suprun Case: The Supreme Court Refuses to Re-Examine the Sentence 12 Aug 2013 | 08:55 pm
We have lately received the Statement by a Judge of the Supreme Court of Russia refusing to satisfy the administrative appeal against the decision of the Oktyabrsky district court of Archangelsk from ...
Analysis of Legislative Changes on Public Procesution Bodies' Powers for Personal Data Processing and Access to Restricted Information 2 Aug 2013 | 06:28 pm
On July 27, 2013, the Federal Law #205-FZ On Introducing Amendments to Specific Legislative Acts of the Russian Federation Regarding Clarification of Powers of the Public Prosecution Bodies of the Rus...
Results of the Prosecutor's Inspection 25 Jul 2013 | 03:00 pm
On July 11, the Freedom of Information Foundation was informed on results of the prosecutor's inspection that started on March 21. The Prosecutor of Tsentralny (Central) district of St.-Petersburg iss...
Monitoring- 2013: Interaction with Regional Governments, or Webpages That Might Not Have Appeared 22 Jul 2013 | 05:36 pm
Within each monitoring cycle, after FIF research complete initial evaluation of the monitored websites, online interaction period starts, providing officials of the bodies whose websites are monitored...
Regional Governments' Websites: Information Placement Examples 18 Jul 2013 | 07:58 pm
In May 2013, Freedom of Information Foundation's researchers performed initial assessment of regional governments' official websites. The websites were evaluated over a set of parameters reflecting st...
Public Prosecution Punishes a Householders' Society for Lack of Information Access 5 Jul 2013 | 05:31 pm
Law abuses in the housing field are quite often spoken of; however, citizens seldom try to fight for their rights. Irina Goryashina from the town of Sestroretsk (Kurortny district, St.-Petersburg) has...
A FOI Event for Legal Clinics 4 Jul 2013 | 04:56 pm
On July 1, Daria Sukhikh and Evgeny Smirnov, FIF lawyers, took part in an event titled Legal Clinics and Freedom of Information. The event was organized in St.-Petersburg by the Prince P.G. Oldenburg...
Students' Practice in the FIF 28 Jun 2013 | 05:06 pm
On June 26, a FOI master class was held for political science students of the Saint-Petersburg State University of Culture and Arts practicing in the FIF. Daria Sukhikh, FIF Senior Lawyer, told the st...
Monitoring - 2013: Informational Openness Rating for Top Regional Executive Government Bodies 27 Jun 2013 | 03:51 pm
In May-June 2013, the Freedom of Information Foundation held the seventh annual monitoring cycle for official websites belonging to Russian regional governments, i.e. top executive government bodies o...
