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 ...
Wagner Group members have been wreaking havoc across Russia ever since Vladimir Putin started releasing convicts to strengthen his military presence in Ukraine, a new report has shown. The ...
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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 ...
The trial of businessman Kuandyk Bishimbayev, Kazakhstan 's former economy minister, in the death of his wife, Saltanat ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...