Key Points and Summary: Russian opposition politician Lev Shlosberg, 61, was arrested this week in Pskov and charged with "discrediting the Russian army," a crime that carries a potential five-year ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. U.S. citizen Robert Woodland attends a court hearing in Moscow MOSCOW (Reuters) - A Russian court on Tuesday ordered that the jail ...

President Vladimir Putin has boasted that Russia is a world leader in the production of hypersonic missiles, which it has deployed in the ​war with Ukraine. The weapons are capa ...

Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich lost an appeal Tuesday to be released from jail on espionage charges, meaning he will remain behind bars at least through Nov. 30. Gershkovich, 31, had a ...

A Russian court on Thursday upheld a six-year jail sentence for "extremism" for a Danish Jehovah's Witness in a case that has drawn worldwide condemnation. In the first such conviction since Russia ...

MOSCOW (AP) — A Russian-born U.S. citizen already imprisoned in Russia on a bribery conviction has been handed a second 15-year jail term for espionage, Russian news agencies reported Tuesday. A ...

The young Ukrainian lieutenant talked back too much so his Russian jailers beat him to a pulp. He was left with "extensive ...

Record bid came apart in the wilds of a Russian forest Sehili had been on course to break the world record He stood in court in his cycling shoes Food was bland in prison but inmates not violent ...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - A Russian court on Tuesday ordered that the jail sentence of a U.S. citizen convicted of drug trafficking be reduced to 9-1/2 years from 12-1/2, the man's lawyer told Reuters.