Russia's infamous "legal nihilism" wasn't built in a day. Even diehard Russia-watchers get inured to the daily drip-drip-drip of the outrageous legal shenanigans there and can be shocked when one ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Moscow – Russian oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky was sentenced Tuesday to nine years in prison for fraud, embezzlement and tax evasion after a 10-month trial ...

Little effort was made during the prosecution of Russian oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky to dispel the notion that the Yukos founder was being punished more for his political ambitions than for tax ...

The verdict and the sentence concluded a lengthy legal exercise whose ending long ago felt foregone. given a suspended sentence of five and a half-years. The verdicts were read just before 1 p.m. in a ...

In russia, the former ambassador of Ukraine to Kazakhstan Petro Vrublevsky was convicted in absentia. The Basmanny District Court of moscow, which gained popularity for its unjust verdicts ("Basmanny ...