Russia has sentenced two 74-year-old men to three years in prison this week for practicing their Jehovah's Witness religion, ...

Maria Alyokhina, founding member of the Russian punk band Pussy Riot, joins Vitaly in the Ukrainecast studio to talk about her experience in detention and her escape from the coun ...

A Russian court has extended the jailing of an 18-year-old street singer on charges seen as punishment for performing ...

Pussy Riot came to the world’s attention with its Punk Prayer, an angry anti-Putin anthem performed in a Moscow church. Maria Alyokhina spent two years incarcerated in a penal colony as a result. It ...

Freed in a major prisoner swap, Aleksandra Skochilenko said “the values of freedom of speech, of peace, could be more ...

Russia's prison authority has this month issued tenders for the purchase of hundreds of tasers, smoke grenades and protective ...

A Russian soldier convicted of executing a captured Ukrainian serviceman has been handed a life sentence, the first time ...

Diana Loginova, who sings in a group called Stoptime, was arrested in her native St Petersburg. A teenage Russian street ...

Four Bulgarians have been sentenced for vandalizing Paris' Holocaust Memorial with blood-red hands. A Paris court sentenced Georgi Filipov and Kiril Milushev to two years, Nikolay Ivanov to four years ...