Rights groups, activists and independent media in Russia and Belarus endured increased government scrutiny, repressive laws and even were shut down and forced to operate from exile abroad.

It was March 1994, more than two years after the Soviet Union disintegrated, and the debates within the US Embassy in Moscow were heated. Diplomats in the economic section, backed by the Treasury ...

A revealing, damning and fascinating diplomatic memorandum, sent in 1994 from the US embassy in Moscow to the State ...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian police have opened a criminal investigation into an alleged assault on a freelance journalist by a person believed to be an employee of the British embassy, the Russian ...

Russian police have launched a criminal probe after a person — thought to be an employee of the British embassy — allegedly ...

A Russian man was jailed for 17 years after being found guilty of passing classified information to a representative of a U.S. intelligence agency, the TASS state news agency reported on Thursday.

Protesters have attacked missions in the capital of the African country as anger grows about the advance of the M23 rebel ...