Kseniia Petrova, a Harvard researcher, was detained Feb. 16 at Logan Airport after failing to declare scientific samples she ...

A Moscow court on Wednesday sentenced prominent Russian rights defender and election monitor Grigory Melkonyants to five ...

A Moscow court sentenced prominent Russian election monitor Grigory Melkonyants to five years in prison after finding him ...

A court in Moscow has convicted one of the leaders of a prominent independent election monitoring group on charges of ...

Grigory Melkonyants was convicted on charges of working with an “undesirable organization” in relation to his watchdog’s past ...

Grigory Melkonyants, co-chair of Russia’s leading election watchdog Golos, has rejected the charges as politically motivated.

Viktor Gerashchenko, who has died aged 87, was a gruff Soviet-era central banker who in 1992 was appointed to head the ...