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A Siberian cult leader who claims to be the reincarnation of Jesus Christ was sentenced to 12 years in a Russian prison camp after his conviction for physically and financially harming his followers. Sergei Torop, a former traffic policeman known to his ...

The U.S. and Russia conducted a major prisoner swap, the largest since the Cold War, on August 1, 2024. The exchange freed Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, former U.S. Marine Paul Whelan, and Russian-American journalist Alsu Kurmasheva from ...

Three Russian and Estonian citizens have been handed prison sentences after being found guilty of defacing a Lithuanian monument to an anti-Soviet partisan leader while working for Russia's military intelligence agency (GRU).

A Russian court has sentenced pro-war activist Sergei Udaltsov to six years in prison for justifying terrorism.