Russian election watchdog 'Golos' announced Tuesday of termination of its work, citing the sentencing of Grigory Melkonyants, an election expert, as a core reason. In 2013, the Ministry of Justice ...

A Russian court jailed ex-deputy defence minister Timur Ivanov for 13 years on corruption charges on Tuesday, part of a sweeping crackdown ...

A Russian court jailed ex-deputy defence minister Timur Ivanov for 13 years on corruption charges on Tuesday, part of a sweeping crackdown on military leaders during Moscow’s Ukraine offensive.

There is a deliberate policy by the Kremlin to exile, neutralise, and effectively erase alternative political life within the country, reports Denis Mikhailov ...

Speech by Michael O’Flaherty delivered at the conference to mark the adoption and opening for signature of the Council of Europe Convention for the Protection of the Profession of Lawyer, organised by ...

Russia sentences Alexey Navalny ally in absentia to 18 years in prison Opposition figure Leonid Volkov, based in Lithuania, has been found guilty on dozens of charges by a military court.

Two other lawyers who used to represent Navalny, Alexander Fedulov and Olga Mikhailova, fled Russia in the face of similar charges, and are now on a wanted list. When the draconian sentences were ...

Three lawyers who represented the late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny were sentenced to prison terms on Friday for alleged involvement in an "extremist organisation”. The sentencing of ...

The sentences drew outrage in the West. The trio were almost the only people visiting Navalny in prison while he served his 19-year sentence. Navalny, Putin’s main political opponent, communicated ...

Amnesty International on Friday condemned a Russian court’s sentencing of three lawyers for aiding the late opposition leader Alexei Navalny’s Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK), calling the decision ...

The three lawyers—Vadim Kobzev, Alexey Liptser and Igor Sergunin—were given sentences ranging from 3½ to 5½ years on charges of involvement with Navalny’s Anti-Corruption Foundation, a ...

Russia on Friday sentenced three lawyers who had defended Alexei Navalny to several years in prison for bringing messages from the late opposition leader from prison to the outside world.