A Siberian cult leader who claims to be the reincarnation of Jesus Christ was sentenced to 12 years in a Russian prison camp after his conviction for physically and financially harming his followers.

The Russian government, facing mounting losses in Ukraine, appears to be intensifying its coercive recruitment tactics targeting prisoners, conscripts, and ethnic minorities from remote regions and ...

The death of Alexei Navalny in a Russian prison in the Arctic last year sparked an outcry around the world. He was compared to Nelson Mandela as a prisoner of conscience. While behind bars, he ...

MOSCOW, Dec 18 (Reuters) - A Belarusian man accused by Russia's FSB security service of blowing up two trains in Siberia on the orders of Ukraine's intelligence services was jailed for 22 years on ...

LONDON, Dec 1 (Reuters) - As a U.S. envoy heads to Moscow to negotiate over a complex blueprint for peace in Ukraine, Russian Nobel Peace Prize winner Dmitry Muratov says a vital element is missing ...

Serhiy Akhmetov wanted to start a business making educational toys for children. Instead, he spent more than 3 1/2 years locked up in a series of facilities in Russia and Belarus after Russian ...

From bribing KGB officers to standing in radioactive prison cells, Barry Lewis’s Siberian journey was anything but ordinary. His haunting photographs of Stalin’s Siberian Gulag are now gathered in a ...

September 15, 2025: Since 2014 and Russia’s seizure of Crimea, individual Russian dissidents and small groups of Russian expatriates have occasionally opposed the Russian invasion in public. Their ...

Ukraine said Wednesday it had assassinated a Russian officer responsible for war crimes, targeting him with a car bomb inside Russia. Veniamin Mazzherin, who died at the weekend, was the deputy ...