A spokesman for the head of the Russian space agency has been arrested for treason, the agency says. Roscosmos said in a statement (in Russian) that former journalist Ivan Safronov’s arrest was not linked to his […]
A fire has engulfed large parts of a prison in Russia’s Siberia region following a riot by inmates who accused guards of mistreating them. The area around the high-security Penal Colony No 15 in Angarsk […]
The trial has opened in the Netherlands of three Russians and a Ukrainian – still at large – for the murder of 298 people aboard Malaysia Airlines flight MH17, shot down over Ukraine in 2014. […]
A Dutch court has upheld an appeal by shareholders demanding billions of dollars in compensation from the Russian state for breaking up the once-mighty Yukos oil company. The Appeals Court in The Hague said a […]
Seven Russian anarchists and anti-fascist activists have been handed lengthy jail terms on terror charges. A court in the city of sentenced the men – said to be part of a group known as Set, […]
US authorities have filed charges against two Russian nationals alleged to be running a global cyber crime organisation named Evil Corp. An indictment named Maksim Yakubets and Igor Turashev – who remain at large – […]
For the first time since Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 was shot down in July 2014, prosecutors have announced charges against suspects in the case. Three Russians and a Ukrainian have been charged with bringing a […]
A Moscow court has sentenced a 63-year-old Norwegian, Frode Berg, to 14 years in a strict-regime labour camp for spying on Russian navy submarines. Berg, arrested in Moscow in 2017, denied the accusation. He formerly […]
Police in Russia are investigating what could be the world’s first documented case of a contract killing ordered via the so-called dark net. High-ranking police investigator Yevgeniya Shishkina was shot dead outside her home near […]
An 18-year-old man has become the first person punished under a new Russian law which bans adults from encouraging minors to take part in illegal protests. Ivan Luzin was first charged after a protest in […]
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