MOSCOW (Reuters) - A Russian court cut the prison term of jailed former oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky's business partner by more than three years on Wednesday, handing him a rare legal victory in a case lawyers say was politically motivated.Full story
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's most famous prisoner said on Monday that three women from the Pussy Riot band may have gone too far by protesting on a cathedral altar, but likened their trial to a medieval inquisition and said their prison regime may amount to torture. Full story
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Monday pardoned a man on a list of 32 people who opposition activists consider political prisoners, but gave no clue whether he might free others in his last two weeks in the Kremlin. Full story
Jailed Russian former oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky stands in the defendants' cage during a court session in Moscow in this April 5, 2010 file photograph. REUTERS/Grigory Dukor
epa03034479 Russian billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov, 46, speaks during a news conference following a meeting with his supporters who nominated him as a presidential candidate in Moscow, Russia, 15 December 2011. Earlier this week Mikhail Prokhorov announced his intention to run for the Russian Preside
