Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An American was sentenced Tuesday to four years in jail in Russia for allegedly trying to fly out of an airport in Moscow with the ...

A court has sentenced a Russian commander with the alias Klyon for ordering civilians to be held in the basement of a school ...

Twenty-three captured Ukrainians were convicted by Russia on Wednesday of terrorism charges. The trial, which resulted in the handing out of lengthy prison sentences, has been deemed a "sham" and the ...

Four journalists were convicted of extremism on Tuesday by a Russian court and sentenced to 5 and a half years in prison for their ties to the country’s deceased opposition leader Alexei Navalny.

Russia’s Tambov Garrison Military Court sentenced Major General Ivan Popov, who had publicly disapproved of the way Russian military forces operated in Ukraine, to five years in prison on Thursday and ...

A Russian court on Monday sentenced former US marine Paul Whelan to 16 years in a penal colony for espionage in a case that strained ties with Washington and fuelled speculation of a prisoner swap.

(CNN) — A St Petersburg court has sentenced a 19-year-old woman to nearly three years in a penal colony after she was accused of repeatedly “discrediting” the Russian army, including by gluing a ...

An American was sentenced Tuesday to four years in jail in Russia for allegedly trying to fly out of an airport in Moscow with the stocks of Kalashnikov assault rifles in his suitcase, a report said.