Russia

Two men have been sentenced for breaches of Russian linked financial sanctions for the first time ever in the UK. Dmitrii Ovsyannikov, 48, and Alexei Ovsyannikov (AO), ...

Enforced disappearances committed by Russian authorities in Ukraine amount to crimes against humanity, the United Nations has said. Russian authorities have detained large numbers of civilians in ...

The International Bar Association has called on Mongolia to arrest Vladimir Putin as the Russian president begins a visit to the country. The International Criminal Court (ICC) has ...

Human rights campaigners have welcomed the release of 16 people in the largest prisoner swap between Russia and the West since the Cold War. Those pardoned, released ...

Russia violated the rights of a schoolteacher who was sacked in 2014 over social media posts including photos of her kissing other women, the European Court of ...

Russian abuses of ant-terrorism and anti-extremism legislation have escalated dramatically since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine nearly two years ago, according to Amnesty International. A new eight-page ...

The UK government has set out plans for a fresh crackdown on companies dodging strict trade sanctions, including those imposed following the Russian invasion of Ukraine last ...

Russia's top court has banned the "international LGBT movement" as an "extremist organisation" at the behest of the Russian government in a move widely condemned by human ...

Russia's Wagner Group – the private military company whose leader Yevgeny Prigozhin led an abortive rebellion against Vladimir Putin before being killed in a plane crash last ...

More than 21,000 people in Russia have been the target of repressive laws and practices by the Russian authorities to suppress the country’s anti-war movement, said Amnesty ...

Russia is to prohibit all forms of gender transition, with allies of President Putin arguing the move is necessary to safeguard the nation against "western anti-family ideology". ...

The European Commission has confirmed that it will bring legal proceedings against the Polish government over a controversial new law ostensibly aimed at curbing Russian influence in ...

Russia has been censured by the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) for failing to provide legal recognition and protection for same-sex couples. In a Grand Chamber judgment ...

Over £18 billion worth of Russian assets have been frozen as a result of UK sanctions, according to the first official figures. The figures have been published ...

Russia is to make LGBT advocacy a criminal offence in an effort to fight western "decadence". There will be heavy fines for anyone spreading LGBT "propaganda", including ...