A Moscow court has ordered that a U.S. citizen suspected of drug smuggling should be in pre-trial detention for 30 days, the Moscow courts press service says.

The release is part of a swap with the Kremlin that freed an American schoolteacher being held in a Russian prison.

The Kremlin said early Wednesday that American Marc Fogel’s release came in conjunction with the Trump administration ...

Russia has freed Marc Fogel, a U.S. schoolteacher and former employee of the U.S. Embassy in Moscow, who had been serving a 14-year sentence for drug smuggling ...

Russia has released an American teacher imprisoned over what his family said was prescribed medical marijuana, but several ...

Thousands of Ukrainians have disappeared into prisons in Russia, and a network of Russians and Ukrainians are working ...

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A prison warden, Peter Musazizi, has been arrested for allegedly damaging the National Resistance Movement's (NRM) registration book. According to Tororo District Police Commander, Superintendent ...

Missile attack damages historic buildings in Odesa, injures seven Zelenskiy emphasizes need to strengthen Ukraine's air defences Odesa governor reports repeated Russian military attacks on same ...

Brendan Cole is a Newsweek Senior News Reporter based in London, UK. His focus is Russia and Ukraine, in particular the war started by Moscow. He also covers other areas of geopolitics including ...

A new school textbook in Russia is teaching children that Moscow was “forced” to invade Ukraine as it likens the conflict to the Soviet Union’s battle against Nazi Germany in World War II.

There were claims that over 60 prison wardens had assaulted more than 100 prisoners in Taiping prison recently, allegedly leading to the death of one inmate. To date, 82 people have given their ...