Two men who attempted to sell seats in the State Duma for 20 million euros were each sentenced to five years in prison Monday for attempted fraud. Two men who attempted to sell seats in the State Duma for 20 million euros were each sentenced to five years in prison Monday for attempted fraud. In June, Pavel Popov, 42, and Vladislav Kalinin, 51, told two businessmen...

A South African pilot who testified against a former associate, jailed Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout, was sentenced Wednesday to five years in a federal prison. A South African pilot who testified against a former associate, jailed Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout, was sentenced Wednesday to five years in a federal prison. Andrew Smulian, 71, was arrested in 2008 in Thailand along with Bout in an undercover...

... opposition party led by jailed former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko suggested that President Viktor Yanukovych's government may have organized the blasts in order to deflect the world's attention from Tymoshenko's imprisonment and reported abuse in prison. The violence also undermines Ukraine's security weeks before it hosts the European football championships in June. Yanukovych called the explosions "yet another challenge for the whole country" and said Ukraine's best investigators will...

The U.S. prisons authority has ordered the transfer of convicted arms dealer Viktor Bout from his Brooklyn jail to a super-maximum security prison in Colorado. Ramzi Yousef, convicted of bombing the World Trade Center in 1993, is also held there, RIA-Novosti said...

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Sergei Udaltsov and Alexei Navalny emerged from prison Thursday, while a dramatic standoff erupted at a State Duma hearing over a bill that would hike fines for illegal demonstrations. Two of the opposition’s most popular leaders emerged from prison Thursday, vowing to ratchet up street demonstrations...

... turning a confident, smiling face to the world in the monthlong Euro 2012 football tournament that it will co-host with Poland, its cheerleader in Europe. That was in December 2009. Now, with the first games to be played on June 9, Tymoshenko lies in prison on hunger strike, nursing bruises after what she said was a beating by prison guards. Images of her show her trademark peasant braids lying in a forlorn tress across her shoulder. Western leaders, some of whose national teams will compete in Euro...

Two members of the female punk band Pussy Riot who face up to seven years in prison on charges of hooliganism for an impromptu performance at a Moscow cathedral asked the president on Friday to examine the legitimacy of their case. Two members of the female punk band Pussy Riot who face up to seven years in prison on charges...

... gained notoriety after he switched allegiance during a conflict between Georgia and the autonomous Adzharia republic in 2004. He publicly declared allegiance to Aslan Abashidze, leader of the republic, and was later accused of rebellion and sentenced to prison. Dumbadze was freed as part of a prisoner exchange deal with Russia in 2008, and in 2010 became a citizen of Russia by an order from then-President Dmitry Medvedev. 179742

... attacked by riot police. In August, one of their leaders, Zhaksylyk Turbayev, was killed on his way to a union meeting, and a few weeks later the daughter of another activist was killed. Natalya Sokolova, their lawyer, was sentenced to six years in prison. In the absence of meaningful negotiations either by the employer or the government, the oil workers called for a peaceful demonstration on Dec. 16. They appealed for the resignation of Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev and his government...

A court in Sevastopol, Ukraine has acquitted a Russian defense contractor on espionage charges after he spent two-and-a-half years in prison for buying a piece of outdated Soviet equipment from Ukrainian partners. A court in Sevastopol, Ukraine has acquitted a Russian defense contractor on espionage charges after he spent two-and-a-half years in prison for buying a piece of outdated...

... "psychological impact," the Moscow Region Court said in a statement . But one of the kidnappers, Yury Skorodumov, panicked that the victim, whose name has not been disclosed, would identify the woman to police upon his release, leading to prison terms for the gang. So he injected the victim with a lethal dose of heroin. The court last week sentenced Skorodumov to 17 years in prison and ordered him to pay 1 million rubles to the victim's father for the loss of his son in November 2008....

The co-owner of a Perm nightclub where 156 people died after a pyrotechnic show ignited a bamboo ceiling was sentenced to six and a half years in a prison colony Monday. The co-owner of a Perm nightclub where 156 people died after a pyrotechnic show ignited a bamboo ceiling was sentenced to six and a half years in a prison colony Monday. Khromaya Loshad, or "Lame Horse," co-owner Konstantin...

... grandfather had been a peasant in a small village near the Volga River and had been accused of being a kulak — an enemy of the state — even though he and his family were actually quite poor. He was arrested and given a long sentence in a gulag prison in the far north. He was never heard from again. His wife and four children struggled to survive because they also were branded as enemies of the state. They were not able to obtain paying jobs, and the children were denied all but the most basic...

... Russian law," he said in the interview, Interfax reported. Kislyak and Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov made similar comments last month, signaling Moscow's strong irritation with U.S. actions on the case. Magnitsky died after a savage beating by prison guards in a Moscow detention center in November 2009. He was arrested a year earlier by Interior Ministry officials whom he had accused of defrauding the government of millions of dollars. Although President Dmitry Medvedev ordered an investigation...

... caused President Viktor Yanukovych to cancel a summit. Yanukovych has faced growing criticism over the conviction of Tymoshenko — and the authorities’ refusal to let her travel abroad for treatment for chronic back pain. Her transfer from prison in the eastern city of Kharkiv to a nearby hospital for treatment under the supervision of German doctors was worked out last week in a compromise. But Wednesday’s early morning transfer seemed unlikely to relieve pressure on Yanukovych....

... very consistent in sending messages to Ukraine about the importance of justice being done and seen to be done,” EU foreign affairs chief Catherine Ashton said. When Tymoshenko launched a hunger strike last month after saying she was beaten by prison officials, several European leaders vowed to shun Ukraine during Euro 2012 in protest, but critics have warned that boycotting the matches would mean mixing sports with politics and could do more harm than good. She said Poland, co-host of the...

... sanctions on Belarus. Andrei Sannikov, an opposition presidential candidate in Belarus' December 2010 election, and his campaign manager, Dmitry Bondarenko, were pardoned by President Alexander Lukashenko and released on April 15 after serving 16 months in prison. The two, along with hundreds of others, were arrested for taking part in mass protests against Lukashenko's landslide reelection, which independent monitors say was heavily rigged. Belarussian political analysts and Sannikov himself believe that...

... Ministry's ombudsman for human rights, specifically accused Latvia and Estonia of harassing Russian-speaking minorities, Great Britain, Denmark, the Netherlands and Poland of discriminating against immigrants and the United States of creating secret prisons where suspected terrorists were allegedly tortured. He said Europe and Russia had to have "equal rights" in their dialogue on human rights, a point repeated by many on the panel. "We are told that [human rights] values are universal...

..., activists have staged several mass "strolls," in an act of defiance after police detained hundreds of pedestrians early last week. Two of those detained, opposition leaders Sergei Udaltsov and Alexei Navalny, are currently serving 15-day prison sentences in connection with the unrest. Udaltsov, who is on a hunger strike, is currently in "critical" condition and requires urgent medical care, veteran human rights activist Lev Ponomaryov told Ekho Moskvy radio. He urged Udaltsov...