By Alissa de Carbonnel MOSCOW, Aug 6 (Reuters) - Russia's most famous prisoner said on Monday that three women from the Pussy Riot ban...

There is renewed hope that Mikhail Khodorkovsky may one day breathe the air of freedom. And yet, the bizarre posthumous trial of Sergei Magnitsky, is a chilling reminder that the Russian winter is by no means over.

"Only three hours ago, we received new information about the former Prime Minister, who has been taken under escort to Hamovnichesky Court..." The ...

The criminal case of Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the jailed former head oil giant Yukos, is again stirring Russia's legal and political establishment. The P...

MOSCOW -- The Russian billionaire who plans to challenge Vladimir Putin in Russia's presidential election said Thursday that his first move if elected...

Serving a 13-year sentence for fraud, Mikhail Khodorkovsky is a symbol for Russians seeking real democratic reforms. In this open letter from his pris...

MOSCOW -- Mikhail Khodorkovsky's former cellmate told a Russian online publication Monday that prison authorities forced him through beatings and tort...

I wish I had enough space to reprint in its entirety Mikhail B. Khodorkovsky's closing statement, as his latest sham trial in Russia came to an end ea...

The opposition has legitimate grounds for suspicion: If Putin is so indifferent to worldly possessions, why is practically every key economic post filled by one of his pals?

Russian political groups have just gained a tremendous amount of expertise in financing and managing election campaigns. This developed skill may one day be brought to use closer to home.

Blood libel is Putin's Big Lie, and it is the ultimate mendacious recourse that the Kremlin falls back upon in times of desperation.

It's a crime against reality for us to carry on pretending that countries like Kazakhstan can hold fair trials.

By creating manageable confrontations with Europe, the U.S, and former Soviet states, the Kremlin is attempting to govern outwardly, diminishing pressures for greater domestic accountability.

Washington showed up, laid its cards on the table, and treated Russia very seriously. Now the ball is in Kremlin's court to do the same.

The second trial of former oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky, which kicks off with preliminary hearings Tuesday, offers a test case of President Dmitry ...

In a trial that begins today, Mikhail Khodorkovsky and his business partner Platon Lebedev are facing new charges of embezzling and laundering more than $20 billion.

The trumped-up case against Khodorkovsky and Lebedev is all too illustrative of the decay of democracy, due process, the rule of law and human rights that has occurred in Putin's Russia.

MOSCOW — Russian oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky has been transferred from his Siberian prison to Moscow for a new trial, a court official and l...