The guilty verdict against the tycoon and Kremlin critic Mikhail Khodorkovsky was ordered from above and written by a judge who did not try the case.

Jailed former oligarch given seven more years for theft and money laundering after widely condemned trial.

Britain and the US led condemnation on Monday after the Russian oil magnate Mikhail Khodorkovsky and his business partner were found guilty.

Jailed Russian ex-tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky was found guilty of money laundering and theft of billions of dollars on Monday.

A Russian judge began reading the verdict on Monday in jailed former tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky’s politically charged second trial.

Prosecutors on Tuesday were to present new charges against Russia’s former richest man Mikhail Khodorkovsky.

Russia’s next president Dmitry Medvedev pledged to uphold Vladimir Putin’s policies on Monday after a big election win that critics said was stage-managed to let the outgoing…

Russia’s prison service bowed to international pressure on Thursday by saying it would transfer Vasily Alexanian, an inmate gravely ill with HIV/Aids, to a specialist clinic. A…

A Russian court refused bail on Wednesday to a jailed oil executive who is gravely ill with HIV/Aids, the latest ruling in a case that has put Russia in breach of an order from…