The Russians may have thought those people were as bad as Mr. Magnitsky's handlers. They may also have thought that keeping Mr. Magnitsky in jail for less than a year was much less worse than what the U.S. has done to prisoners at Guantanamo. If they thought that, they were right.

MOSCOW — Russia on Saturday banned 18 Americans from entering the country in response to Washington imposing sanctions on 18 Russians for allege...

By Denis Dyomkin BLAGOVESHCHENSK, Russia, April 12 (Reuters) - The forthcoming publication of a list of Russians barred from the Unit...

MOSCOW — Russia is preparing to put lawyer Sergei Magnitsky on trial, even though he died in 2009, an unusual twist in a case that has become a ...

Did anyone really believe Russia would welcome this? Human rights are good, and the rule of law is good, and healthy societies are good.

As 2012 winds down, it is time again to reflect on the year’s human rights developments. How did the world do following an eventful 2011?

By Steve Gutterman MOSCOW, Dec 24 (Reuters) - Russian prosecutors on Monday dropped their accusations against the only person being tried in co...

By doling out economic perks and trade deals to Russia -- even as people die in Syria -- the U.S. is sending precisely the wrong message at the worst possible time.

If America hopes to 'reset the reset' with Russia, it will need to send more accommodating messages to Mr. Putin than it has.

Scolding Russia has never resulted in warmer relations between the two countries; it is certainly not going to do so now. Rather, Russia will more likely prove to be an impediment on both subjects, at least in part in response to adoption of the Magnitsky Law.

Russia has promised a retaliatory response to the Act, calling it "anti-Russian" and intrusive in the country's internal affairs.

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.

MOSCOW — A private investigation into the death of a Russian lawyer who had reported official corruption in his country concluded Monday that he...

Lawlessness has been working out pretty well for Putin -- when courts don't work, and when the investigators are specialized in inventing cases rather than solving crimes, the Kremlin becomes the ultimate arbiter in the system.

In recent years, dozens of lawyers have been forced into prison, out of the country, or worse. Yet despite these outrages, and the fraud schemes they're associated with, not a thing is being done to stop this.

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

Late on Monday the Russian lawyer Sergei Magnitsky suffered a rupture of the abdominal membrane causing death. How many more dead Russians will it take before the world takes notice?