Belarusian authorities have released an imprisoned U.S. citizen, a Belarusian journalist for a U.S.-funded media outlet and an opposition supporter in an apparent attempt to repair ruptured ties with ...

Aleksandr G. Lukashenko, Belarus’s autocratic president and Russia’s closest ally, has taken steps to soften his country’s ...

In fact, this Estonian underwater site was once a prison built by the Soviet Union. This semi-emerged site was once known as Rummu Prison and housed inmates back in the 1940s. It may be a place of ...

After more than nine months in the US following their extradition from Estonia, HashFlare co-founders Sergei Potapenko and ...

Over 4,000 convicted criminals who should be in jail are living in freedom because there are not enough jail cells for them, ...

In general, she believes Estonia is a "lean state." Estonia is currently discussing the possibility of leasing Tartu Prison to foreign countries. Pakosta said that if the state cannot find alternative ...

Rights groups, activists and independent media in Russia and Belarus endured increased government scrutiny, repressive laws ...

Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania – disconnected from Moscow's power grid to join the EU's electricity network in an attempt to decrease their "vulnerability ... to Russian blackmail", FRANCE 24 Chief ...

Behind the prison walls, officers are forced to work ... There are more people in American prisons than there are people living in Estonia, for one example. “We've got into this mindset that ...

A Lithuanian court sentenced Imre Arakas, a well-known figure in organized crime circles, to ten years in prison on Monday, public broadcaster LRT reported, on charges of murder and attempted murder.

WASHINGTON, Jan 21 (Reuters) - Hundreds of Donald Trump supporters who had been serving prison sentences for participating in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol were freed on Tuesday ...