Russia's Ministry of Defense has been extending ... Conversely, in Mordovia, the enthusiasm among the inmates of colony № 2 in Yavas was palpable, with many actively seeking assistance from ...

‘It’s Not a Crime’ American basketball star Brittney Griner was sentenced to nine years in a penal colony by a Moscow court Thursday after she was convicted of drug smuggling, concluding a ...

Vladimir Pereverzin was imprisoned for seven years in some of Russia's most notorious jails and penal colonies on fabricated charges of embezzlement and fraud. Pereverzin tells Business Insider ...

"Marc got 14 years of maximum security penal colony, again, unprecedented." Phillips advised Americans traveling to Russia to heed warnings from the U.S. Department of State. "Please take a look ...

MOSCOW, February 28. /TASS/. Alexey Navalny has arrived in penal colony number 2 in Pokrov, in central Russia’s Vladimir Region, human rights activist Ruslan Vakhapov, who specializes in ...

Marking the launch of "Patriot", the memoir her husband was writing before his death from a suspected state-authorised poisoning in a Russian penal colony earlier this year, the 48-year-old vowed ...

Mr Anderson, who was caught in November in Russia’s Kursk region, was sentenced to serve the first five years of his term in prison and the remainder in a penal colony in “strict” conditions.