MOSCOW, Oct. 30 (UPI) -- Names of the 30,000 people killed in Stalinist purges were read in a solemn Moscow ceremony in hopes of a monument to their deaths, Russian officials said.
MOSCOW, Aug. 10 (UPI) -- A Russian official says an international tribunal should be established to try Georgian leaders responsible for giving orders to invade South Ossetia.
MOSCOW, Feb. 26 (UPI) -- Lev Ponomaryov, a prominent Russian human rights activist, said prosecutors charged him with extremism for accusing a prison official of torture.
SKOPJE, Macedonia, Feb. 13 (UPI) -- Russian President Vladimir Putin warned on Tuesday, in an interview he granted to the French television channel TF1, that unilateral U.S.-British military action against Iraq would be a "grave mistake" and an "unreasonable use of force."