By The Associated Press A court in Russia on Thursday convicted a pro-war activist and critic of President Vladimir Putin of justifying terrorism and sentenced him to six years in prison. Sergei

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 president of Russia, Vladimir Putin, sent a bill proposal to ...

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 sentencing in the closed-door trial against Alexey ...

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PARIS (AP) — Police in France detained four people suspected in a plot targeting exiled Russian rights activist Vladimir Osechkin, who exposes abuses in Russian ...

French ultracyclist Sofiane Sehili Eamonn Dalton/The Athletic; Photo: Getty Images “If I had known I was going to spend 50 days in jail, obviously I would not have done it,” reflects Sofiane Sehili, almost a month after his return from Russia, having ...

A court in Moscow on Thursday convicted pro-war activist and critic of Vladimir Putin, Sergei Udaltsov, of justifying terrorism and sentenced him to six years in a maximum-security prison. The