Murza, a vehement critic of President Vladimir V. Putin, didn’t want to be part of a prisoner exchange. But he says more ...

He never received a single rouble. The “Gulag” movie: Lost in Siberia - Geopolitics and big oil play into the capture of a British geologist by the Russian military in Iran at the end of 1945. As soon ...

Navalny died on 16 February in his cell in the prison colony in Siberia where he was being held on a 19-year sentence over charges that were widely seen as politically motivated. Prison officials ...

U.S. President Jimmy Carter's Democratic presidency was marred by the 444-day Iran hostage crisis but he was hailed as a humanitarian figure later in life, winning the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002.

Vladimir Kara-Murza told the BBC he initially thought he was being "led out to be executed" when prison officers came in the night to fetch him from Siberia last month. It was only after being ...

Alexei Navalny — a fierce critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin — died at a penal colony in Siberia on Feb ... one of the country's toughest prisons. The 47-year-old had been serving ...

72.ru Iryna Sharova Yaroslav Lipavsky's funeral was held in his hometown of Tyumen, Siberia When the Wagner mercenary group first recruited prison inmates, its late leader, Yevgeny Prigozhin ...

The notorious "Polar Wolf" prison, where Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was held until his death today, was known for its severe conditions and remoteness. The prison, officially ...

He spent the next four years in a prisoner-of-war camp in Siberia. Kormis continued his art in confinement, including a collection of woodcut prints shown in the exhibition. He managed to preserve ...

Russia’s security service said the substance that the canteen worker put in the food could have caused acute poisoning.