MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's political system is showing signs of "ruinous" stagnation, President Dmitry Medvedev said Wednesday, in his harshest criticism to date of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's ...

Russia is seeing an extraordinary surge of political arrests that has shaken the country’s ruling class. From senior judges and regional governors to associates of former Defence Minister Sergei ...

Whether a 14-year-old protester or an anti-war artist, anyone deemed critical of Putin's regime can be locked up for years in Russia. A new film follows the plight of these political prisoners.

Will the Solzhenitsyn of this century be an oil magnate? If soaring courtroom rhetoric has anything to do with it, maybe. Former Russian oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky is awaiting judgment on the ...