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 ...
Russia has been using convicted criminals to supplement its military forces in Ukraine for well over a year and a half. Despite the number of pardoned criminals who return from the war and carry out ...
Since the invasion of Ukraine began, Novaya Gazeta Europe has identified at least 192 Russian military personnel convicted of ...
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As Vladimir Putin sought to extend his control on Russia with a sham presidential election, resistance groups caused chaos for the Russians inside occupied Ukraine. Across the occupied south and ...
Five thousand children have been evacuated from Russia's Belgorod region bordering Ukraine following weeks of deadly bombardment by Kyiv, the region's governor said Saturday. Regional authorities ...
When President Gerald Ford pardoned his predecessor in 1974, averting a potential trial for Richard M. Nixon, he cited a desire to keep the country calm. Prosecuting Nixon, Ford said in a public ...
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 ...
In total, it is suspected that the criminal network successfully smuggled around 5 000 Cuban nationals into the EU, generating a profit of around EUR 45 million.