Paul Whelan, who was arrested in Russia in 2018, got little sleep and used secret cellphones to communicate with prisoners ...

Increasingly oppressive conditions inside Russian prisons are driving desperate inmates to enlist in the military to fight in Ukraine. Speaking to RFE/RL from behind bars in Russia, a Kyrgyz ...

Former U.S. Marine Paul Whelan shares new details about his imprisonment in Russia, including allegations of abuse.

Yulia Navalnaya, the widow of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, remains a defiant critic of Vladimir Putin. She ...

Paul Whelan was taken and locked inside a cramped, nine-foot-square cell in Moscows Lefortovo Prison, known for holding ...

Russian dissident Alexei Navalny shared an unflinching account of his life inside brutal penal colonies in prison diaries before his sudden death in February. The opposition leader, who died at a ...

Kyiv’s forces captured hundreds of enemy soldiers during the incursion into Kursk province, a success highlighted by ...

US had condemned arrest of Robert Shonov, who worked for more than 25 years in the now-shuttered mission in Vladivostok.

On Alexei Navalny’s first night in a prison cell, after being arrested at a Moscow airport in early 2021, he slept like a ...

Former U.S. Marine Paul Whelan spent more than five years detained in Russia before he was released in August in one of the ...

The Minsk City Court has issued the first-ever sentence in Belarus under a law passed more than two years ago for "denying ...

A Moscow court sentenced American citizen Stephen Hubbard, 72, to six years and 10 months in prison on Monday for allegedly fighting as a mercenary for Ukraine, according to Russian state media TASS.