A former senior Russian defence official has been handed a lengthy prison sentence after being convicted on multiple ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ukrainian forces are trying to seize a women's penal colony in the village of Malaya Loknya in Russia's Kursk Oblast, where ...

A Russian court has sentenced a U.S.-Russian ballerina to 12 years in a penal colony for "high treason" after she allegedly transferred funds to a Ukrainian charity in Feb. 2022 when Russia launched i ...

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 ...

Evan Gershkovich, The Wall Street Journal reporter, was convicted on fabricated charges and is expected to serve time in one of the country’s infamous prisons. By Ivan Nechepurenko and Eve Sampson ...

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 ...

Deep in the Amazon jungle, France plans to open a $450 million high-security prison to isolate drug lords and radical Islamists—turning a notorious former penal colony into a fortress for modern ...

MOSCOW, April 17 (Reuters) - The former deputy head of the Russian army's general staff was sentenced on Thursday to seven years in a penal colony for taking hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Four officers at a maximum security prison in Russia were killed after inmates who identified themselves as affiliated to ISIS ...