Some 20,000 Ukrainian civilians are in Russian prisons and rights activists say more than 2,000 are female. Some of the women who have managed to get out jail are now speaking out about what they ...

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U.S. Navy veteran Charles Wayne Zimmerman was sentenced to 5 years in Russian prison after allegedly failing to declare a ...

Charles Zimmerman recently docked his yacht at Sochi, Russia—and inadvertently brought a rifle with him, resulting in his imprisonment.

Even if a peace can be reached, it won’t be easy to solve the problem of Ukrainian civilians languishing in Russian jails. This is one prisoner’s story. Even if a peace can be reached, it won’t be ...

Russia has sentenced American Charles Zimmerman to five years in prison for illegally transporting weapons, a court said, noting that a rifle was found on his yacht after it docked in the port city of ...

Serhiy Akhmetov wanted to start a business making educational toys for children. Instead, he spent more than 3 1/2 years locked up in a series of facilities in Russia and Belarus after Russian ...

George Papadopoulos, the first person sent to prison in the Russia investigation, has been released. That's according to the Federal Bureau of Prisons. The former Trump campaign foreign policy adviser ...