The trial against opposition leader Alexei Navalny and his business partner Pyotr Ofitserov on embezzlement charges entered its 12th day on Monday, with the defense demanding that the judge in the case recuse himself for allegedly creating unequal conditions for the defense and prosecution.
The trial against 12 people charged with violence against police and participation in alleged mass riots in the so-called Bolotnoye case — a case observers say is one of the largest politically motivated trials in recent history — opened at the Zamoskvoretsky District Court on Thursday.
For years Moscow has been captivated by speculation about the apparently moribund marriage of President Vladimir V. Putin. He was in love with an Olympic gymnast half his age, some said. His wife, Lyudmila, was not seen in public for months at a time, and when she did appear with the president they behaved like […]
The death of Russian businessman linked as a witness to a high-profile corruption scandal is not suspicious, according to Surrey Police.
The head of the Russian parliament’s anticorruption committee has put forward a bill increasing the punishment for corruption and misappropriation of government funds, she said on Friday.
Mr Putin and his partner of almost 30 years revealed on Thursday evening that they had agreed on a “civilised break-up”, confirming widespread rumours that they had long been living apart.
Russia’s security service, the FSB, has detained a man suspected of organizing a terror plot in Moscow, which was foiled by law enforcement earlier this month.
Garry Kasparov, the world chess champion-turned-political-opposition-stalwart, told a news conference in Geneva that he would not return to Russia for fear of criminal prosecution for his political activities, his website reported Wednesday.
At an unannounced appearance at a radical feminist bookstore in New York, two members of the Russian punk rock group that sparked an international crisis for Vladimir Putin took off their iconic colorful balaclavas and revealed their faces.
Twelve activists accused of clashing with riot police during a violent rally against Vladimir Putin‘s rule appeared in a Moscow court on Thursday, in a case dubbed a political show trial by Kremlin critics.
