The Russian judge who convicted Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich said the trial was short because the court did not examine any "material evidence" and the verdict did not take long because he could "type quickly."

"The case itself was small. I don't remember how many folders there were, three or five," Judge Andrei Mineyev was quoted

A bill submitted to the Russian parliament has raised fears that the thousands of Russian dissidents seeking political refuge in post-Soviet and other non-Western states could soon be at risk of arrest and extradition back to Russia. 

The bill, recently introduced to the lower-house State Duma by the ruling United Russia party, would allow

High school students in Russia’s Far East were shown a graphic video of a medical abortion video during an unannounced lecture, the Telegram news channel Ostorozhno Novosti reported Friday.

“Many felt sick while watching,” the outlet wrote, citing students from school No. 7 in the Sakhalin region town of Okha, around 6,000 kilometers (3,700 miles) e