Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ukrainian forces are trying to seize a women's penal colony in the village of Malaya Loknya in Russia's Kursk Oblast, where ...

(AP) It’s a far cry from Stalin’s gulag, but the guiding principle of the Russian penal colony — the destination of two members of punk band Pussy Riot — remains the same: isolate inmates and wear ...

A Russian court has sentenced a U.S.-Russian ballerina to 12 years in a penal colony for "high treason" after she allegedly transferred funds to a Ukrainian charity in Feb. 2022 when Russia launched i ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. American citizen Travis Leake has been sentenced to 13 years in a penal colony in Russia, state media RIA Novosti reported ...

Evan Gershkovich, The Wall Street Journal reporter, was convicted on fabricated charges and is expected to serve time in one of the country’s infamous prisons. By Ivan Nechepurenko and Eve Sampson ...

Reuters on Thursday reported that WNBA star Brittney Griner is now in a penal colony in Russia's Mordovia region. Officials at Moscow's Sheremetyevo Airport in February detained Griner – a Phoenix ...

Four officers at a maximum security prison in Russia were killed after inmates who identified themselves as affiliated to ISIS took several staff hostage, Russian state media reported. Russian special ...

Three weeks after a member of the feminist punk protest group Pussy Riot disappeared into the Russian penal system, authorities have confirmed that she was transferred to a Siberian penal colony.

MOSCOW, April 17 (Reuters) - The former deputy head of the Russian army's general staff was sentenced on Thursday to seven years in a penal colony for taking hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes ...