Topic: Vladimir Markin

A Russian court ruled Thursday eight Greenpeace activists, arrested in a protest at an offshore oil rig in the Arctic Ocean, could be held until November.

Thirty Greenpeace environmental activists were placed in pretrial detention in Moscow overnight after investigators opened a piracy case, officials said.

Russian authorities said they have opened a piracy investigation against Greenpeace activists who protested at a Gazprom offshore oil platform.

Four people arrested for home invasions in Russia are suspected of being part of a crime ring that may have killed at least 30 people, investigators say.

Russian investigators will be looking into alleged corruption involving police, lawmakers and traders at outdoor markets, officials said Thursday.

Former Moscow regional finance minister Alexei Kuznetsov has been charged with stealing nearly $320 million, Russian investigators announced over the weekend.

Investigators opened a new criminal case against Russian opposition activist Leonid Razvozzhayev Friday while denying reports of his disappearance.

Ex-Russian Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov declined to testify Friday in a fraud case against a state defense firm, providing a written statement instead.

Two Russian lawmakers targeted in a corruption probe should be stripped of their immunity from prosecution, an investigative panel says.

Russian police say they will not investigate a dissident's claim that he was kidnapped in Ukraine and then tortured, citing the "unreliability" of his story.