For German Moyzhes, a little-known political activist and lawyer, the days of uncertainty in his Russian prison cell seemed endless when, on a Monday in July 2024, the prison authorities abruptly ...

A Ukrainian court has found a Russian soldier guilty of killing a Ukrainian prisoner of war in a January 2024 incident and sentenced him to life in prison, in the first ruling of its kind.

Deep in Moscow’s Lefortovo District stands a place few outsiders have ever entered — Lefortovo Prison, a fortress of silence built during the Tsarist era and later used by the KGB. Founded in 1881, it ...

Trevor Reed, an American who was jailed in Russia in 2019, gave his first interview since being released from custody. The interview will air Sunday at 8 p.m. ET on CNN. CNN released excerpts of the ...

Russia's prison authority has this month issued tenders for the purchase of hundreds of tasers, smoke grenades and protective ...

Co-founder of protest and performance-art group describes Russia’s descent under Putin into dictatorship and war ...

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 ...

Yulia Navalnaya, who is Alexei Navalny's widow, claimed that two independent laboratories determined her husband was poisoned ahead of his death in a Russian prison more than a year and a half ago.

French cyclist says he will continue record-breaking attempts despite 50-day spell in Russian prison - The Frenchman’s ...

Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich stands in a glass cage in a courtroom at the Moscow City Court, in Moscow, Russia, Dec. 14, 2023. automation LONDON -- Friday marks a year since Wall ...

The widow of Alexei Navalny said Wednesday that two independent labs have found that her husband was poisoned shortly before his death in a Russian prison. Navalny, who crusaded against official ...