Legal Dialogue

Russia’s Constitutional Court has affirmed that rehabilitated victims of political repressions, as well as any children born in the Gulag system or in exile, have the right to receive housing in the cities where their families lived at the time of the repression.
Source: Meduza

EU leaders agreed to extend economic sanctions against Russia for another six months. The sanctions were first implemented in 2014 after Moscow annexed Ukraine's Crimea. The EU's restrictions target Russia's energy, financial and arms sectors.
Source: EUObserver

The European Commission has determined that the Czech Republic must return hundreds of millions of crowns in EU subsidies as Prime Minister Andrej Babiš did not sufficiently separate himself from holdings that received the funds.
Source: Euraktiv

The Ministry of Health introduced to the government a bill banning the dissemination of false information about HIV. False information includes denying the existence of HIV infection, denying the connection between HIV and the development of AIDS, as well as denying the effectiveness of HIV treatment, diagnosis, and prevention methods.
Source: Meduza

According to EU watchdog, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s government has systematically destroyed the country’s media independence and pluralism over the past 10 years. EU leaders are expected to discuss possible actions against Hungary for Orban’s attacks on key European democratic norms.
Source: New Europe

Due to the absence of harmonized class action lawsuit mechanism the European consumers find it hard to get compensation in a lawsuit against corporations, such as in case when Volkswagen was caught cheating on emissions tests. This is set to change with the new EU legislation designed to simplify the collective lawsuit mechanism.
Source: Forbes

Austria is set to become the first EU country to completely ban weedkiller glyphosate, as lower house of parliament voted to ban all uses of controversial substance due to allegations of potentially causing cancer. The ban could clash with EU law.
Source: Deutsche Welle

Malta’s prime minister Joseph Muscat has resigned and due to leave in January, driven from office by the constitutional and political crisis triggered by the murder of the investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia.
Source: The Guardian

Human rights activist Alena Popova demanded to ban the face recognition system after the Tverskoy District Court illegally used her biometric data obtained from surveillance cameras and fined the activist for 20 thousand rubles after protest near the State Duma building.
Source: Novaya Gazeta