A British man who Moscow says fought for Ukraine against the Russian army has been sentenced to 13 years in a maximum security prison camp after being convicted of being a paid mercenary, Russian ...

Poisoned twice and sentenced to the longest term ever handed down to a Russian government opponent, Kara-Murza details his ...

Russell Bonner Bentley III, 64, who was living in the occupied Donbas region of Ukraine, was beaten and tortured to death ...

The Iranian authorities have released a Russian citizen who was in prison for taking photographs of so-called "sensitive" ...

German police are investigating allegations of beatings and abuse at a Belarusian prison, after a former guard appeared to ...

The Russian Federal Penitentiary Service has reportedly confirmed that journalist Nika Novak remains in Penal Colony No. 11 ...

A Moscow court has today ruled the feminist punk protest collective Pussy Riot to be an “extremist organisation”. The ...

Russian anti-Kremlin feminist punk band and art collective 'Pussy Riot' was designated an extremist organisation by a Moscow ...

One of the leaders of the Koos party and Estonian citizen Aivo Peterson was sentenced to 14 years in prison for treason by ...

Nobel Peace Prize laureate Ales Bialiatski has been released from a Belarusian prison after more than four years ...

A female agent of Russia's FSB, who directed airstrikes and artillery fire on Defense Forces positions in Donetsk region, has ...

Nathan Gill was sentenced to 10 years in prison last month after admitting having been paid around £40,000 ($53,000) to make ...