Nelia Checheta served the state for decades — first with the Soviet military in Turkmenistan and later in Ukraine's Emergency Service — earning official honors along the way. At 62, her story ...

Hundreds of Ukrainian women and girls have reported sexual violence by Russian troops during the four-year war in Ukraine.

I do not believe that Russia’s prisons differ in any way from Belarus’s prisons. They are the same regimes, with hatred toward people. The only difference is that in Belarus Belarusians are imprisoned ...

Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich stands inside an enclosure for defendants before a court hearing to consider an appeal against his pre-trial detention on espionage charges in Moscow, ...

In April 2022, when 30-year-old Trevor Reed finally came home to Texas after three years in a Russian gulag, he didn’t want to enjoy a cushy life or start college. The Marine veteran wanted revenge — ...

A Russian stand-up comedian was sent to a penal colony for almost six years Wednesday for a joke about a war veteran who lost his legs, the latest conviction in a sweeping crackdown on those who ...

Wnba star Brittney Griner believes her new documentary about her time imprisoned in Russia compares to the current situation in the United States. With ICE agents cracking down on immigration in major ...

Alexei Navalny's widow Yulia Navalnaya says European analysis of his blood proves that the Russian opposition leader was murdered - Copyright AFP RALF HIRSCHBERGER ...