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Basketball star Brittney Griner taken to IK-2 penal colony in Mordovia, Russia, lawyers said. What do we know about prison conditions there? Alexander Zemlianichenko AP American basketball star and ...

Deep in a snow-covered forest, a few hundred miles removed from Moscow’s bustle and noise, is a bland stretch of Mordovian road with a grim claim to fame. This is Russia’s land of prisons, known for ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin’s most prominent critic has been transferred to a “completely lawless” penal colony outside Moscow, it was revealed Monday. Alexei Navalny, 44, is serving a ...

Jailed Kremlin-critic Aleksei Navalny has filed another lawsuit against Correctional Colony No. 2 in the Vladimir region where he is serving a prison sentence that he and his supporters consider ...

WNBA star Brittney Griner is being transferred to a Russian penal colony after being convicted in August of possessing and smuggling drugs, her legal team said on Wednesday, bleak news for the athlete ...

Jailed Russian opposition politician Aleksei Navalny will face a new trial next week inside the penal colony where he is being held, a move that could see as many as 10 more years tacked on to his ...

MOSCOW — This week, lawyers for jailed American basketball star Brittney Griner revealed she is currently on her way to a Russian penal colony to begin serving out her nine-year sentence on drug ...

Brittney Griner will endure merciless conditions inside a Russian penal colony — where rancid food, extreme isolation and tyrannical wardens await the WNBA star, former Russian prison inmates, their ...

MOSCOW — It’s a far cry from Stalin’s gulag, but the guiding principle of the Russian penal colony — the destination of two members of punk band Pussy Riot — remains the same: isolate inmates and wear ...