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Russian court sentences pro-war activist and Putin critic to 6 years in prison

December 26, 2025 12:32 am

Sergei Udaltsov, the leader of the Left Front movement that opposes Putin and is affiliated with the Communist Party, was arrested last year.

3 lawyers for late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny jailed by Russian court

January 17, 2025 4:50 pm

According to Navalny's allies, authorities accused the lawyers of using their position to pass information from him to his team.

US-Russian dual national jailed for 12 years on treason charges for USD 51 donation to Ukraine

August 15, 2024 7:44 pm

Khavana, identified by Russian authorities by her maiden name of Ksenia Karelina, was arrested in the Ural Mountains city of Yekaterinburg in February and pleaded guilty in a closed trial last week, news reports said.

Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich

All you need to know about Evan Gershkovich's conviction for espionage in Russia

July 20, 2024 1:16 am

Gershkovich, the American-born son of immigrants from the former Soviet Union, is the first Western journalist arrested on espionage charges in post-Soviet Russia.

Journalism is not a crime: Biden after journalist Gershkovich's sentencing in Russia

July 19, 2024 10:20 pm

President Joe Biden in a statement after the conviction said that Gershkovich “was targeted by the Russian government because he is a journalist and an American.”

Russia convicts US reporter of espionage after a trial widely seen as politically motivated

July 19, 2024 10:21 pm

Gershkovich, a 32-year-old American who denied any wrongdoing and said the allegations against him were false, went on trial last month in the city of Yekaterinburg.

Russia sentences US national Leake to 13 years in jail for drug smuggling

July 18, 2024 5:44 pm

Leake, a musician and former US paratrooper who was arrested in June 2023, was found guilty of selling drugs on a large scale, the court service said.

Russian court orders arrest of opposition leader Navalny's widow, who lives abroad

July 09, 2024 11:02 pm

Moscow’s Basmanny District Court ruled to arrest Yulia Navalnaya, who lives abroad, on charges of alleged involvement in an extremist group.

Russian court extends detention of Russian-US journalist Kurmasheva

May 31, 2024 10:54 pm

A Russian court on Friday extended by two months the pre-trial detention of Alsu Kurmasheva, a Russian-American Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) journalist, in a move her husband called a disgrace and cruel.