RUSSIA AMNESTY BILL PASSES FIRST HURDLE
By LAURA MILLS Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, walks to meet his Ukrainian counterpart Viktor Yanukovych during their meeting in Moscow on Tuesday, Dec. 17, 2013. (AP Photo/Alexander Nemenov, pool)…
Mikhail Khodorkovsky
EX-TYCOON KHODORKOVSKY MARKS 10 YEARS IN PRISON
By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV FILE – In this file photo taken on Thursday Dec. 30, 2010, former oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky, left, and his co-defendant Platon Lebedev talk behind a glass…
JAILED RUSSIAN TYCOON IS HONORED BY LECH WALESA
By ALIK KEPLICZ Solidarity founder and former Polish President Lech Walesa, left, gives his foundation’s annual prize to the son of imprisoned Russian tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Pavel Khodorkovsky, in Gdansk,…
RUSSIAN COURT TO RULE IN PUSSY RIOT MEMBER CASE
ROMAS DABRUKAS FILE – In this Aug. 17, 2012 file photo, feminist punk group Pussy Riot member Nadezhda Tolokonnikova sits in a glass enclosure at a court in Moscow, Russia.…
UK POLICE: RUSSIAN TYCOON BEREZOVSKY FOUND DEAD
By CASSANDRA VINOGRAD FILE – A Wednesday, July 18, 2007 photo from files showing Russian exile Boris Berezovsky, a close friend of former Russian agent Alexander Litvinenko who was poisoned…