Cheplygin was arrested and charged with those crimes, but he has since reportedly applied from prison to go to fight in Ukraine to avoid a jail term, a common path for those incarcerated in Russia.

Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, now the head of Russia’s ruling party, appeared to make a joke about the rift between President Trump and Elon Musk on X early Friday. "We are ready to ...

NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with former US Ambassador to Russia, Michael McFaul, about today's meeting between US President Donald Trump and his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

Trump said his pardons and commutations for Jan. 6 defendants were justified, and argued that people who commit violent crime ...

Former Vice President Mike Pence criticized President Donald Trump’s across-the-board tariffs on Monday, arguing that a looming “price shock” to the economy and potential shortages will lead ...

Some countries have denied Russia legal assistance in criminal cases, including extradition requests, for political reasons, said Ilya Rogachev, presidential representative on international ...

North Korea Will Send 5,000 Workers to Russia, ... he told reporters that Mr. Kim had agreed to send 5,000 construction workers and 1,000 sappers — combat engineers — to Russia’s Kursk region.

Former Vice President Mike Pence knocked President Donald Trump’s second-term agenda in a wide-ranging interview ... from sweeping tariff proposals to posturing on Russia, and January 6 pardons. ...

Russia has opened a criminal case against the 69-year-old father of Leonid Volkov, a former aide to late opposition leader Alexei Navalny, state news agency TASS reported on Thursday.

Criminals go to fight for Russia and then return home to kill again. ... 24, a former engineer who blew up his hand with a grenade fuse and fled to France to avoid fighting in Ukraine, ...

NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with former US Ambassador to Russia, Michael McFaul, about today's meeting between US President Donald Trump and his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelenskyy.