After protests, Russian prison service wants more tasers, protective gear

Russia's prison authority has this month issued tenders for the purchase of hundreds of tasers, smoke grenades and protective ...

Russia accuses Khodorkovsky and other exiled Kremlin critics of conspiring to seize power

Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) said on Tuesday it had opened a criminal case against exiled businessman Mikhail ...

Aging Putin brings younger generation, family members into circle amid Kremlin instability: report

Vladimir Putin tightens grip on power by promoting family members and younger allies to his inner circle as economic strain ...
BBC

Alexei Navalny was about to be freed in prisoner swap, says colleague

Ms Pevchikh said negotiations had been in their final stage on 15 February. Navalny died on 16 February in his cell in the prison colony in Siberia where he was being held on a 19-year sentence over ...
Yahoo

Russia accuses Khodorkovsky and other exiled opponents of plotting to seize power

(Reuters) -Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) said on Tuesday it had opened a criminal case against exiled Kremlin critic Mikhail Khodorkovsky, accusing him of creating a "terrorist organisation" ...