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

Russian President Vladimir Putin is reportedly facing growing public dissent over alleged government corruption and rising prices. Protests have voiced strong criticism of the regime, amid repression ...

Italy has summoned Russia's deputy ambassador to protest what it said were "vulgar" remarks which linked the collapse of a ...

Police have so far detained 238 people at rallies across Russia on Saturday in support of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny, the ...

MOSCOW -- It takes a certain kind of bravery to protest in President Vladimir Putin's Russia, especially on the day he sends his country to war. I watched hundreds of people on a bitterly cold evening ...

Maria Alyokhina reveals the conditions she endured in one of the remote penal colonies where opponents of Vladimir Putin face ...

Over the weekend, thousands of Russians hit the streets to protest the arrest of Alexei Navalny, one of the harshest critics of Russian President Vladimir Putin and the government keeping him in power ...

In the USSR, Soviet TV often showed the ballet following the death of Soviet leaders, and it was back on Soviet TV screens in ...

Georgia has been facing a wave of protests against its government's repressive policies. The demonstrations began in November ...