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 ...

A Russian judge sentenced Olga Jezler to 10 years in prison on drug charges. Hostage advocacy groups say the charges are ...

U.S. basketball star Brittney Griner was convicted Thursday in Russia of drug possession and sentenced to nine years in prison following a politically charged trial that came amid soaring tensions ...

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GRANBURY, Texas — The world waits with anxiety to see what Russia’s next move will be. But few families feel the fear as deeply as Joey and Paula Reed. The Granbury couple’s son, Trevor, a 30-year-old ...

Russia’s prison population has fallen to 282,000 over the past four and a half years, the director of the Federal ...

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Since his release from a Russian prison in April, Stanislav Tarnavskyi has been in a hurry to build the life in Ukraine he dreamed about during three years of captivity. The ...

ROSTOV-ON-DON, Russia, March 26 (Reuters) - A Russian military court on Wednesday handed down long prison sentences to 12 members of Ukraine's Azov regiment, which led the defence of the city of ...

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