Recruiting convicts for its army has given Russia a manpower advantage. But it is backfiring in tragic ways when former inmates are pardoned and return home to commit new crimes. By Neil ...
Controversial Leniency in Sentencing A particularly shocking case involved a former Wagner Group mercenary who was merely fined 5,000 rubles after he mutilated his ex-wife in front of their child ...
Russian military efforts to recruit women from prisons and civilian life have clashed with President Vladimir V. Putin’s ...
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Ukraine’s fight for justice for women, men and children who suffer terrible sexual crimes shows this battle goes far beyond territory Atrocities are Russia’s means of warfare. Since the ...
The trial of businessman Kuandyk Bishimbayev, Kazakhstan 's former economy minister, in the death of his wife, Saltanat ...
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange greets supporters outside the Ecuadorian embassy in London on May 19, 2017. Ecuador's President Lenin Moreno called on March 2, 2019, for talks that would get Assange ...
A lawyer for Donald Trump has stressed the president’s legal team would contest any effort to force him to testify before a grand jury during the special counsel’s Russia probe. But Rudy ...
March 26 (Reuters) - A top security adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said that Russian plans to station tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus would destabilise that country, which ...
A trial of a former government official charged with killing his wife has riveted Kazakhstan with lurid video of the attack, ...
The trial of a former economy minister, Kuandyk Bishimbayev, has gripped Kazakhstan, sparking conversations about domestic abuse. A brutal CCTV footage, played in the court, shows him dragging his ...