The Collegium has stripped two retired Kuban judges of their status.
Following lawsuits from the Prosecutor General's Office, former Chairman of the Prikubansky District Court of Krasnodar, Rustem Trakhov, and Vladimir Bakhmetyev, who headed the Khostinsky and then Central District Courts of Sochi, were stripped of their status as retired judges. Consequently, they have also been stripped of the immunity granted by their status as judges.