In April 2022, when 30-year-old Trevor Reed finally came home to Texas after three years in a Russian gulag, he didn’t want ...

The former mayor was released last August and confirms the systematic torture in prisons controlled by Moscow, denounced by the United Nations and several international NGOs. On September 8, the ...

In exchange, Russian basketball player Daniil Kasatkin, jailed in France and whose extradition was demanded by the United ...

LONDON -- Russian President Vladimir Putin's most prominent opponent was sentenced Friday to an additional 19 years behind bars on extremism charges. A Russian judge delivered the guilty verdict and ...

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Russia once again extended the prison sentence of U.S. citizen Robert Gilman Wednesday after a regional court found him guilty of a new assault on prison staff. The ruling adds two more years to the ...

TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — A court in Russia convicted a woman from a Siberian city over social media posts condemning the war in Ukraine and punished her Friday with a steep fine even though both she ...

French ultracyclist Sofiane Sehili Eamonn Dalton/The Athletic; Photo: Getty Images “If I had known I was going to spend 50 days in jail, obviously I would not have done it,” reflects Sofiane Sehili, ...

A court in Moscow on Thursday convicted pro-war activist and critic of Vladimir Putin, Sergei Udaltsov, of justifying terrorism and sentenced him to six years in a maximum-security prison. The ...