A Moscow judge on Thursdaysentenced exiled human rights veteran Lev Ponomaryov to five and a half years in prison in absentia ...

American journalist Evan Gershkovich will stay behind bars in Russian prison until at least June after a Moscow court rejected the Wall Street Journal reporter’s appeal to be released from pretrial ...

MOSCOW (AP) — A court in Moscow upheld a 19-year prison sentence Tuesday for imprisoned Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who was convicted on charges of extremism in August. Navalny was found ...

A Moscow court on Monday overturned a prison sentence for actor Pavel Ustinov, giving him instead a one-year suspended sentence, in a case that has sparked protests and a major solidarity campaign.

A Moscow woman jailed for making a hookah out of a traditional Orthodox Easter cake was released from custody on Friday after ...

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The Second Western District Military Court in Moscow on July 9 sentenced a shoemaker, Nikolai Kolin, for sending 5,000 rubles ($57) to the so-called Russian Volunteers' Corps (RDK) that has fought ...

A Moscow court on November 27 sentenced journalist Aleksandra Bayazitova, a former reporter of Izvestiya and Kommersant newspapers, and media manager Olga Arkharova to five years and 4 1/2 years in ...

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