Russia May Exonerate Executed Commander
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A court has opened the way for the possible exoneration of a commander who fought against the Red Army in Russia's civil war and was executed by the Bolsheviks, a human rights activist said Tuesday.
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Russia dismissed speculation on Wednesday it could hand over the man suspected of murdering Kremlin critic Alexander Litvinenko in exchange for Britain extraditing a tycoon wanted in Moscow.
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Chechen rebel leader Aslan Maskhadov says another militant chief, Shamil Basayev, should go on trial for the school siege in the southern Russian city of Beslan that killed nearly 340 people, according to a statement released Friday.
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A monument to Soviet soldiers, who liberated Riga from the Nazi, was profaned on Tuesday, a police representative told Itar-Tass. The police will hold an investigation and may open criminal proceedings, she ...
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ST PETERSBURG, Russia  - Russia reburied the   mother of its last tsar on Thursday nearly 90 years after the   Bolshevik revolution forced her into exile, in a homecoming the   country hopes will help reconcile it with its bloody past.
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Russian prosecutors charge exile Boris Berezovsky with plotting to seize power in Moscow, his lawyer says.
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Six suspects accused of murder and war crimes could face death penalty if convicted
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MOSCOW -- New money-laundering and embezzlement charges filed yesterday against Russian oil magnate Mikhail Khodorkovsky make it unlikely the prominent political enemy of President Vladimir V. Putin will be released from prison before Russia's 2008 presidential election.
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The attorney general says the suspect wanted for the murder of a former KGB agent must be extradited.
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A Russian Army officer jailed for the murder of a young Chechen woman withdrew his appeal for a presidential pardon Tuesday, according to Interfax, which quoted officials in the city where the officer was detained.
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Russia's top prosecutor said Friday that Russia could prosecute the chief suspect in the fatal poisoning of a former KGB agent if Britain presents enough evidence, but his counterpart in London demanded that the suspect face trial in a British court.
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Russian prosecutors to charge 10 people in connection with killing of investigative reporter.
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BESLAN, Russia  - Russia's top general threatened  on Wednesday to attack "terrorist bases" anywhere in the world,  as security services put a $10 million bounty on two Chechen  rebels they blame for last week's school siege.
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Some of the hostage-takers who took over a school in southern Russia, leading to the death of more than 150 children, may not have known what they were getting
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A retired soldier should face a court-martial where the death penalty could be ordered for a 1985 triple murder, according to an Army investigating officer's recommendation released late Saturday.
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21 September 2004 -- A Russian Army colonel convicted of kidnapping and murdering a young Chechen woman withdrew his request for a pardon today after public demonstrations of outrage in Chechnya.
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Exoneration of military officials charged in 1999 E. Timor massacre fuels argument.