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An extended meeting of the Prosecutor's Office board, chaired by Moscow Prosecutor Maxim Zhuk, was held at the Moscow Prosecutor's Office. The meeting focused on the city prosecutor's office's performance in 2025 and its objectives for strengthening law and order in 2026.
The meeting was attended by Deputy Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation Yuri Ponomarev, Head of the Department of the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation Natalya Rostovtseva, Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin, Chairman of the Moscow City Duma Alexei Shaposhnikov, heads of departments of federal executive bodies, the Moscow Government, the judiciary, law enforcement agencies, members of the board of the capital's prosecutor's office, heads of departments and divisions of the city prosecutor's office, district, inter-district and specialized prosecutors.
Protection of citizens' rights
In his speech, Maxim Zhuk noted that in 2025, the work of the capital's prosecutor's office was structured in accordance with the priorities set by the President of Russia and the objectives set by the leadership of the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation. The prosecutors' efforts were aimed at ensuring a unified legal framework, preserving budget funds, complying with the law in the implementation of national projects, developing small and medium-sized businesses, protecting citizens' labor, housing, and other rights, and combating crime.
Moscow prosecutors identified 109,300 violations in their oversight of federal law enforcement. 24,600 notices were issued to address them. As a result, 21,700 officials were disciplined. Based on prosecutors' orders, 9,700 individuals were held administratively liable, and over 3,100 warnings were issued. Additionally, 877 criminal cases were initiated.
Prosecutors' protests contributed to the updating and compliance of 9,400 legal acts. Furthermore, citizens' rights and the state's interests were actively protected: 10,200 lawsuits (petitions) were filed with the courts.
Prosecutors everywhere sought to ensure compliance with the law in the area of rights and social guarantees for special military operation (SMO) participants and their families. These measures enabled them to promptly resolve housing issues and situations related to inadequate provision of technical rehabilitation equipment, and prevent violations of the social, labor, and other legally guaranteed rights of military personnel and their families.
Prosecutors held 31 mobile in-person consultations with 177 SVO participants and their family members at the Moscow State Budgetary Institution "Unified Support Center" and military hospitals. These consultations were conducted jointly with military prosecutors to ensure a timely and effective response.
At the initiative of the Moscow City Prosecutor's Office, amendments to Moscow's legislation have been introduced to provide support and assistance to the family members of SVO participants who died in the line of duty or who died after being discharged from military service due to injuries sustained in the line of duty. Litigation efforts have also been intensified across various sectors, resulting in the restoration of labor, housing, pension, and other social rights for SVO participants (19 lawsuits).
"It's important to ensure effective oversight in this area. Participants in the SVO and their family members must know that when they contact the prosecutor, all their rights and interests guaranteed by law will be protected. No request should be ignored. A situation will only be released from oversight if violated rights are fully restored and the violation of the law is effectively eliminated," emphasized Maxim Zhuk.
Interaction between the Prosecutor's Office and the Moscow Government
In his speech Sergei Sobyanin He highly praised the cooperation between the Moscow Government and the Moscow Prosecutor's Office in providing comprehensive support to SVO participants and their families, whose vital problems are being resolved as quickly as possible.
The Mayor of Moscow cited the introduction of a risk-based approach to oversight activities in the business sector as another example of fruitful collaboration.
According to Sergei Sobyanin, the Moscow Prosecutor's Office played an active role in developing and coordinating risk indicators for all types of control. To date, 112 such signals have been approved, warning of potential problems or the likelihood of violations. Many of them have proven highly effective.
In conclusion, the Moscow Mayor thanked the prosecutor's office staff for their significant contribution to reducing crime, maintaining law and order, and protecting the legal rights of citizens in the capital. He expressed confidence that in 2026, the prosecutor's office team will successfully address all the important and complex tasks that contribute to Moscow's development as one of the safest cities in the world.
Respect for labor and social rights
Serious efforts were focused on enforcing citizens' labor rights. The number of identified violations of the law increased by 5.7 percent to 16,401, with every second of these, as before, related to non-payment of wages.
"The prosecutor's office's response measures have resulted in the repayment of 6.1 billion rubles in wage arrears to over 43,000 employees," Maxim Zhuk emphasized, addressing his subordinates. "Promptly prevent any violations of workers' rights, ensure continuous monitoring of the legality of wage payments, and take effective measures to identify and eliminate latent arrears."
Oversight measures were actively implemented to identify and prevent violations of the rights of the most vulnerable segments of the population. Moscow City Prosecutor's Office officers prevented instances of unlawful denials of pension benefits, failure to recalculate pension amounts, and failure to reinstate benefits following medical re-examination for disability. The rights of persons with disabilities to technical rehabilitation equipment and access to social, engineering, transportation infrastructure, and residential facilities were also restored.
Working with debtors
Efforts to eliminate and prevent debts owed by management companies and public institutions to utility providers continued, with 864 violations identified. 452 notices were filed to address these violations and compel officials and managers to reduce their outstanding utility payments. Based on these notices, over 250 individuals were held liable under various penalties.
Furthermore, Moscow prosecutors, in conjunction with the Moscow Government and authorized agencies and organizations, are systematically working to restore the rights of equity-equity housing construction participants and ensuring effective oversight of developers' fulfillment of their obligations to citizens.
Construction of the residential complexes "Terletsky Park," "Voskresenskoye," "Akadem Palace," and "Kvartal Triumfalny" has been completed, and permits for occupancy have been issued. The rights of 1,641 people have been restored.
Currently, the Unified Register of Problematic Objects (ERPO), formed in the Unified Information System of Housing Construction, does not include any problematic shared construction objects (in 2024, there were four).
Prosecutors provide oversight of potentially problematic construction projects, including those involving developers at high risk of being included in the Unified Register of Housing and Utilities (ERPO). To monitor the situation, in-person meetings are held regularly with developers and equity holders' initiative groups.
National projects
While ensuring compliance with the law during the implementation of national projects, prosecutors identified 460 violations and lodged two protests against unlawful regulations. Thirty-eight complaints were filed with the courts, two individuals received warnings against violating the law, 411 representations were made to the heads of supervised bodies and organizations, 214 individuals were disciplined, 18 were subject to administrative penalties, and two criminal cases were initiated.
Systematic work to protect the rights of business entities continues. In 2025, more than 5,400 violations of the law were identified. To address these violations, 1,600 notices were filed, disciplinary sanctions were imposed on 1,269 officials, and 735 individuals were held administratively liable. Furthermore, approximately 1,700 legal acts found to be inconsistent with legal requirements were repealed or amended based on protests filed, and 28 criminal cases were initiated based on prosecutorial inspections.
Thanks to measures taken by the prosecutor's office, in 2025, debts under state contracts and public agreements totaling 434.8 million rubles were repaid.
"We immediately stopped administrative pressure on businesses. Prosecutors rejected 66 percent of requests for unscheduled inspections and 88 percent of scheduled ones. Eighty-nine inspector inspections were conducted with serious violations of the law. We overturned their results," said Maxim Zhuk.
The comprehensive work carried out in this area made it possible to protect the rights of almost 2,500 (2,424) entrepreneurs.
The Moscow Prosecutor's Office's work to protect the rights and legitimate interests of minors is aimed at enforcing legislation regarding this group, as well as combating and preventing juvenile delinquency and crimes against children. In 2025, prosecutors identified over 19,200 violations in this area, filing 5,200 petitions to address them. As a result, 5,500 officials were disciplined, and 1,600 were subject to administrative penalties. Additionally, nearly 2,000 protests were filed, over 1,000 lawsuits were filed, and 84 criminal cases were initiated.
While overseeing compliance with federal anti-corruption legislation, Moscow prosecutors identified 2,600 violations. 1,500 notices were filed, 1,744 individuals were disciplined, 272 illegal legal acts were overturned or amended based on prosecutors' protests, and administrative charges were initiated against 653 individuals. Following an anti-corruption review, 106 corruption-causing factors were excluded from 87 draft regulations. Fifty-two claims totaling over 4.5 billion rubles were filed with courts of general jurisdiction, and 55 criminal cases were initiated based on prosecutorial inspections.
2,304 individuals were identified for violations related to failure to perform duties, non-compliance with prohibitions and restrictions established by anti-corruption legislation, and dismissal of 10 individuals was initiated due to loss of trust.
Twenty-five organizations (13, or 92.3 percent) were held administratively liable for illegally receiving compensation on behalf of a legal entity by prosecutorial orders, with administrative fines totaling 192.5 million rubles. 149 million rubles have already been collected for the state budget.
The amount of damages recovered in criminal cases involving corruption crimes amounted to 14.2 billion rubles. Property, including cash and valuables, was seized, and damages totaling 1.2 billion rubles (199.1 million rubles, or 494.5 percent) were voluntarily repaid, while 12.9 billion rubles (4.4 billion rubles, or 197.6 percent) were seized.
At the board meeting, the priority of prosecutorial oversight over the implementation of anti-corruption legislation was particularly emphasized.
Capital prosecutors supported the state prosecution in first instance courts in 27,227 cases against 30,855 individuals.
With the participation of prosecutors in courts of general jurisdiction, 23.1 thousand civil and administrative cases were considered in the first instance based on claims by prosecutors and those in which the prosecutor entered the process to provide an opinion (16.5 thousand).
The prosecutors' lawsuit protected the social rights of citizens, including minors, the disabled, the elderly, and other vulnerable groups, and also sought to maintain a favorable environmental situation.
9,600 civil, administrative, and criminal lawsuits totaling 61.6 billion rubles were filed with the courts. More than 8,800 lawsuits totaling five billion rubles were filed in the interests of citizens, society, and the state, the majority of which protected labor rights—2,500 totaling 982 million rubles. 647 lawsuits for compensation for damages caused by crimes, totaling over 50 billion rubles, were accepted for proceedings.
The downward trend in the number of crimes committed in the capital continued, decreasing by 7.9 percent (120,216). In addition, the detection rate increased and the registration of certain types of crimes decreased. In particular, the number of thefts decreased (31,058—16.9 percent), including apartment thefts (150—28.2 percent), robberies (757—9.2 percent), fraud (43,608—15.1 percent), crimes involving information and telecommunications technologies (54,615—14 percent), mobile communications (9,526—53.3 percent), the Internet (40,524—8.6 percent), and others. Street crime decreased by almost 10 percent.
When reviewing and receiving citizen appeals, the Moscow prosecutor's office paid special attention to personal reception, as well as requests from pensioners, veterans, disabled persons, minors, single mothers, large families, mobilized citizens, participants in special military operations, and their family members.
In 2025, the Moscow prosecutor's office received more than 557.5 thousand appeals (7.8 percent), the number of violations of the law identified by prosecutors increased by 5.3 percent (98,397), and the number of prosecutorial response acts submitted increased by 8.3 percent (84,538).
Over 73.8 thousand citizens (4.3 percent) applied for an appointment with the capital's prosecutors, more than half of whom (39.5 thousand) were received personally by employees and their deputies.
The largest number of applications reviewed concerned issues of violation of labor laws; in addition, many complaints concerned violations of the law in the reception, registration, and consideration of reports of crimes.
Maxim Zhuk listened to reports from his subordinates on various topics, pointed out shortcomings in the organization of oversight, and gave specific instructions for their elimination.
"We must respond to every violation identified. Only the effective restoration of violated rights and the effective elimination of the violation can be considered the end result of our work. The increase in the number of appeals we receive demonstrates the demand for prosecutors' work. Behind every appeal is a person, a request for help. I ask you to remember this. We are obliged to justify the people's trust," Maxim Zhuk concluded the meeting.
The board's work consisted of constructive discussions of existing problematic issues. As a result, specific measures were developed to strengthen prosecutorial oversight and ensure compliance with the law and order in the capital, as reflected in the board's decision.
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