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The European Court of Human Rights Thursday ruled that Russian authorities were responsible for the 2001 death of a Chechen man who died after he was taken into Russian custody during a raid. The court...

Russian officials have harassed human rights defense lawyer Karinna Moskalenko and are attempting to disbar her after Moskalenko filed complaints with the European Court of Human Rights over alleged rights violations by the Russian government, the International Helsinki Federation...

Freedom of the press suffered serious setbacks around the world in 2006, according to a new report from Freedom House . The study, Freedom of the Press 2007: A Global Survey of Media Independence, noted...

Russian President Vladimir Putin said in a speech to both houses of the Russian parliament Thursday that he was putting Russia's implementation of the terms of the Conventional Forces in Europe...

The United Kingdom cannot legally continue to provide political asylum to Russian billionaire and alleged coup plotter Boris Berezovsky and refuse to extradite him, the chairman of the Russian State Duma's Civil, Criminal, Arbitration and Procedural Law...

Boris Yeltsin , Russia's first elected president and the primary architect of the country's shift towards democratic government in the 1990s, died Monday, according to Russian wire services. Yeltsin was 76 and had a history of health problems,...

Former chess champion and liberal United Civil Front leader Garry Kasparov has accused Russian police of "brutality" after meeting with Kremlin officials Friday to give an account of his treatment at...

The European Union Thursday approved a framework decision aimed at criminalizing denial of the Holocaust and other genocides following six years of intense debate. The end product was described as a carefully-balanced compromise by...

The Russian State Duma , the lower house of parliament, unanimously approved a bill on Wednesday that would hike the penalty for vandalizing property during political or ideological protests to a maximum of three years in...

A Russian court Monday upheld a decision to move former Yukos CEO Mikhail Khodorkovsky from a Siberian penal colony to a Moscow prison while officials investigate new charges of money laundering [JURIST...