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The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) Thursday ruled against Russia in the case of a former KGB agent who was detained under conditions that the court said "amounted to degrading treatment" . The ex-agent,...

The UK Foreign Office said Tuesday that Russia's refusal to extradite the primary suspect in the murder of British citizen and former Russian intelligence officer Alexander Litvinenko was "unacceptable." Prime Minister Gordon Brown...

The Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation (FSB) has charged Russian billionaire Boris Berezovsky on suspicion of plotting a violent coup against President Vladimir Putin, Berezovsky's lawyer said Monday. The charge...

The Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation (FSB) Friday announced it is investigating allegations made by Russian businessman Andrei Lugovoy that the deceased former KGB agent Alexander Litvinenko [BBC profile; BBC...

Russia's Office of the Prosecutor-General Wednesday dismissed suggestions by a Russian lawmaker that Andrei Lugovoy , currently sought by Britain's Crown Prosecution Service (CRS) for the poisoning murder of former KGB...

British authorities submitted a formal extradition request to Russia on Monday, seeking Andrei Lugovoy in the poisoning-murder of former KGB agent Alexander Litvinenko . Last week, UK Attorney General Lord Goldsmith rejected a Russian offer to...

UK Attorney General Lord Goldsmith Friday rejected a Russian offer to try the suspected murderer of former KGB agent Alexander Litvinenko in its own courts, calling for Andrei Lugovoy's extradition...

The British Crown Prosecution Service (CRS) said Tuesday that there is sufficient evidence to charge Russian businessman Andrei Lugovoi with murder in the poisoning death of former Russian intelligence officer Alexander Litvinenko [BBC profile; BBC...

JURIST Special Guest Columnist Robert Amsterdam, international defense counsel for Russian billionaire and former Yukos CEO Mikhail Khodorkovsky, imprisoned in Siberia for tax fraud after a controversial trial and now facing new money laundering charges, says that if the rule...

Russian Prosecutor General Yury Chaika announced Friday that a criminal investigation has been opened into the June abduction and murder of four Russian embassy employees in Iraq. In a statement, the Prosecutor General's office said...