Even if a peace can be reached, it won’t be easy to solve the problem of Ukrainian civilians languishing in Russian jails.

Serhiy Akhmetov sat down with RFE/RL’s Ukrainian Service a few weeks after his release from Russian prison for an interview in which he recalled beatings, food shortages, and desperate efforts to get ...

Laboratory tests of smuggled samples taken from late Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny show that he was poisoned when he was imprisoned in a Siberian penal colony, his widow Yulia Navalnaya has ...

As the government seeks to reduce the prison population, the BBC visits HMP Send to meet inmates.