Russia transfers ex-U.S. Marine to region with tough Soviet-era prisons
Reuters via Yahoo News· 1 year agoA former U.S. Marine who is serving a nine-year sentence in Russia was being transferred from a...
Ex-U.S. Marine held in Russia starts hunger strike over treatment, says family
Reuters via Yahoo News· 9 months agoMOSCOW (Reuters) -A former U.S. Marine serving a nine-year jail sentence in Russia has started a...
The World’s Biggest Fires May Reach Moscow Thanks to Putin
The Daily Beast via Yahoo News· 1 year agoFinally, on Thursday, the minister of Emergency Situations, Yevgeny Zinichev, traveled to the...
Parents of Trevor Reed, jailed in Russia, protest at the White House
CBS News via Yahoo News· 5 months agoOn Wednesday, Russia's Federal Penitentiary Service confirmed that Reed went on hunger strike at his...
Ex-U.S. Marine Trevor Reed says he ends hunger strike in Russian jail
Reuters via Yahoo News· 9 months agoMOSCOW (Reuters) -A former U.S. Marine serving a nine-year jail sentence in Russia has ended a...
Brittney Griner sentenced to nine years on drug charges in Russia. What happens next?
USA TODAY Sports via Yahoo Sports· 2 weeks agoHe was first taken to a “transition” camp in Mordovia – almost like a quarantine, David Whelan said....
Brittney Griner is set to serve time in one of Russia's penal colonies, where abuse is common,...
INSIDER via Yahoo News· 22 hours agoAP Photo/Yuri Tutov Some, like prison colony No. 14 in Mordovia, are notoriously brutal. MAXIM...
Navalny's penal colony, a Kremlin weapon to 'break' him
AFP via Yahoo News· 1 year agoUntil last week, the provincial town of Pokrov outside Moscow, lined with Soviet-era residential...
American imprisoned in Russia complains of sleep deprivation
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 2 years agoThe brother of an American convicted of espionage in Russia said Thursday that his imprisoned...
Putin’s Prison Swap Offer Could Free This Jailed American
The Daily Beast via Yahoo News· 1 year agoMOSCOW—In Russia, dissidents, opposition activists, and journalists by the dozen have languished in...