Recruiting convicts for its army has given Russia a manpower advantage. But it is backfiring in tragic ways when former inmates are pardoned and return home to commit new crimes. By Neil ...
Russia has been using convicted criminals to supplement its military forces in Ukraine for well over a year and a half. Despite the number of pardoned criminals who return from the war and carry out ...
Wagner head Yevgeny Prigozhin said that of the estimated 40,000 convicted criminals conscripted into service, there were about 5,000 men who survived six months of service and have since been ...
Since the invasion of Ukraine began, Novaya Gazeta Europe has identified at least 192 Russian military personnel convicted of ...
LONDON, April 17 (Reuters) - A Russian court has handed down prison terms to four former employees of a Moscow detention centre for abusing detainees, a member of Russia's human rights council ...
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As Vladimir Putin sought to extend his control on Russia with a sham presidential election, resistance groups caused chaos for the Russians inside occupied Ukraine. Across the occupied south and ...
When President Gerald Ford pardoned his predecessor in 1974, averting a potential trial for Richard M. Nixon, he cited a desire to keep the country calm. Prosecuting Nixon, Ford said in a public ...
Five thousand children have been evacuated from Russia's Belgorod region bordering Ukraine following weeks of deadly bombardment by Kyiv, the region's governor said Saturday. Regional authorities ...
Ukraine’s fight for justice for women, men and children who suffer terrible sexual crimes shows this battle goes far beyond territory Atrocities are Russia’s means of warfare. Since the ...
A lawyer for Donald Trump has stressed the president’s legal team would contest any effort to force him to testify before a grand jury during the special counsel’s Russia probe. But Rudy ...