MOSCOWMOSCOW — The mother of a whistle-blowing Russian lawyer who died in prison thanked President Barack Obama Friday for a U.S. law targeting Russian officials deemed to be human rights violators ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Bill Browder, an American-born, U.K.-based businessman, says the war in Ukraine is sharpening the world's focus on Russian ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. After Sergei Magnitsky's death, Bill Browder created the Magnitsky Act, a law that freezes the assets of the people responsible ...

Nataliya Magnitskaya (L), mother of Sergei Magnitsky, grieves over her son 's body during his funeral at a cemetery in Moscow November 20, 2009. Magnitsky, a suspect in a tax evasion case against ...

MOSCOWMOSCOW — A Russian court on Monday postponed the trial of a dead lawyer who accused law-enforcement authorities of massive corruption and whose case sparked a dispute between Washington and ...

"Did they want to kill him?" wondered Jamison Firestone in a November 2009 interview with RFE/RL's Russian Service. "I don't know." Firestone was the managing partner of Firestone Duncan, a Moscow law ...

Military sales were suspended over concerns about Saudi human rights violations in Yemen. Now, Britain argues that Saudi violations there are “isolated incidents.” By Stephen Castle Foreign Secretary ...

Follow this author to personalize your feed and get instant alerts. WHY FOLLOW? Update your preferences in Account Settings Nataliya Magnitskaya, mother of Sergei Magnitsky, grieves over her son 's ...