With the assistance of the Commissioner for Human Rights, in December 2014, following fraud against complainant N., Investigation Directorate of the Russian MIA’s Department in Dmitrovskiy District of Moscow Region launched a criminal investigation.

The Commissioner for Human Rights in Russia suggested that the uncertainty regarding the labour licence term and the labour or civil law relations correspondently be eliminated.

On 5 December 2014, Commissioner for Human Rights in Russia received a letter of gratitude from mother of a soldier, for restoring his right to be invalided out of the army.

On 28 November 2014, the fishermen came back to their home town Gatchina in Russia. Before they had been accused of illegal border crossing and spent almost two months in custody in Estonia.

The Commissioner for Human Rights in Russia defended the right to justice of Mr M. in the Supreme Court.

Due to the Commissioner’s appeal to the Prosecutor of Volgograd Region, the right of an applicant to judicial protection was restored and a criminal case on fraud was opened 20 November 2014.

The Russian Commissioner for Human Rights and the Prosecutor General’s Office insisted in the Supreme Court that the sentence and correspondent court decisions in relation to a plumber accused of an accident resulting in two deaths be recalled. The case is to be reviewed by a new bench.

With the assistance of the Commissioner for Human Rights in Russia justice has been restored in the case of Mr V.

The three-year criminal proceedings related to a murder of a Russian serviceman closed in September 2014. The true guilty was found and sentenced to seven years in prison.

In June 2014, on the initiative of the human rights commissioner’s office in Russia, the Penal Colony No. 3 of the Russian Federal Penitentiary Service Directorate in Kaluga Region was restricted from receiving the convicted. In addition, a supplementary inspection of the available data on the habitable space was held to change the penal colony quota.