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Alexei Navalny, the opposition leader currently on trial for fraud, has expressed certainty that he has slim chances of getting a not guilty verdict, and he is almost certainly right.

Russians view Leonid Brezhnev as the most positive of all Soviet and Russian leaders in the 20th century, but Vladimir Lenin and Joseph Stalin were close behind in an opinion poll released on Wednesday.

The Russian tycoon Alexander Lebedev fears that a Moscow court will hand down a guilty verdict in his trial on hooliganism charges despite the fact that the case appears to be falling apart.

The lack of an official explanation for the abrupt expulsion from Russia of U.S. lawyer and former Justice Department official Thomas Firestone earlier this month has led to a flurry of speculation about what may have prompted it.

[The recent brutal murder of Vladislav Tornovoy, a 23 year-old gay man, in the Moscow suburbs has once again brought the subject of homophobia in Russia to the fore. Below is a blog post by Pavel Svyatenkov examining cultural definitions of homosexuality, and how Soviet-era propaganda has been carried into the post-Soviet era. — Ed.] The […]

Though Russia meets the anti-corruption standards of UNCAC, a major problem is the lack of a law punishing illicit enrichment itself

The Central Criminal Court of Iraq has resumed an investigation against officials suspected of corruption while signing a $4.2 billion arms deal with Russia, member of Iraq’s parliament Bahaa al-Araji told RIA Novosti on Tuesday.

Russian lawmakers on Tuesday took a step toward imposing jail terms for offending religious feelings, approving legislation proposed after punk band Pussy Riot performed a raucous protest song in Moscow’s main Orthodox Christian cathedral.

Russia’s leading polling group said on Tuesday it would fight to keep operating despite pressure to register as a “foreign agent” under what it calls a campaign by President Vladimir Putin to silence independent voices.

Russian ombudsman Vladimir Lukin said amnesty of the participants in the riots in Moscow’s Bolotnaya Square on May 6 will enhance government prestige. Earlier, lawmakers from the Communist faction at the State Duma lower house of the Russian parliament Anatoly Lokot and Boris Kashin submitted a draft resolution to amnesty these persons.