Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo Illustration by The Daily Beast/Getty A leading expert in Russia’s prison system, Olga Romanova, says the Kremlin’s latest ...

A Russian mercenary group is rapidly finding soldiers to fight in Ukraine by recruiting in penal colonies in far-flung regions of Russia as the Kremlin seeks to replenish the ranks in its war effort.

Russia's Justice Ministry has declared Olga Romanova, the founder and head of Russian prisoner advocacy organization Russia Behind Bars, and 11 other activists as foreign agents. Russia Behind Bars, ...

Last March, Olga Romanova, 23, sat in the Zurich airport awaiting an early-morning Aeroflot flight to Moscow. From there, an eight-hour train ride would take her to Cheboksary, her hometown, on the ...