Three Crimean Tatar political prisoners, Remzi Memetov, Zevri Abseitov and Rustem Abiltarov, have been released after spending nine years in a Russian penal colony in connection with their alleged ...

Four officers at a maximum security prison in Russia were killed after inmates who identified themselves as affiliated to ISIS took several staff hostage, Russian state media reported. Russian special ...

Gordon Black, a U.S. Army staff sergeant, who was detained in Russia on May 2 on suspicion of stealing from a woman he was in a relationship with, appears in a court in Vladivostok, Russia, June 19, ...

Arseniy Konovalov, a former Russian diplomat, received a 12-year sentence in a maximum-security colony for allegedly selling secrets to U.S. intelligence. Accused of treason, Konovalov served in the U ...

The jailed American basketball star Brittney Griner has been moved to a penal colony in Russia, her legal team said Wednesday. A Russian court rejected her appeal of her nine-year sentence for drug ...

WNBA star Brittney Griner has begun serving her nine-year sentence for drug possession at a remote Russian penal colony that human rights advocates say is known for harsh conditions and violent ...

Reuters on Thursday reported that WNBA star Brittney Griner is now in a penal colony in Russia's Mordovia region. Officials at Moscow's Sheremetyevo Airport in February detained Griner – a Phoenix ...