Marc Fogel was detained at a Moscow airport in August 2021 for possession of marijauna that he had been prescribed for back ...

Last August, a middle-aged Russian woman with her face covered walked onto Red Square in Moscow and, in the shadow of the ...

The 63-year-old Oakmont teacher just marked his third year in a Russian penal colony after being arrested in August 2021 for ...

An American teacher who was arrested in Russia in 2021 after he was found with 0.6 ounces of medical marijuana, and ...

The Oakmont man was arrested for carrying a half ounce of medical marijuana and sentenced to 14 years in a penal colony.

Navalny, who died suddenly aged 47 in an Arctic penal colony in February last year, was himself convicted of extremism and other charges, all of which he said were trumped up by the authorities to ...

Marc Fogel, the 63-year-old Butler native and former Oakmont teacher, was released Tuesday and is back in the United States.

Penal transportation was a method of punishment ... adding that it was one of the harshest forms of punishment in the colony. “Convicts loathed it. It was deemed the most difficult, dangerous ...

Kobzev was sentenced to 5 1/2 years in penal colony, Lipster to five years, while Sergunin's term was reduced to 3 1/2 years in exchange for pleading guilty. Advertisement The district court in ...