Something virtually unprecedented happened this winter: five Russian policemen were arrested and charged with framing up an innocent man.

Moscow police have finally arrested a traffic-ticket fugitive.

What would you rather visit: a cathedral or a distillery?

Discussion in Russia about domestic violence has gotten more serious over the past few years, and a showdown seems to be on the horizon.

"Russia's strict state, with a harsh, or, more exactly, cruel law enforcement system... has raised a generation of citizens to match."

How salt riots and a young tsar led to a Zemsky Sobor and a new body of laws, The Council Code.

In which the Rural Council takes up the case of “The Conduct of Nikolayev, N. N.”

The idea of separate and competing government powers may have found its first expression in a constitution composed in 1710, in Ukraine.

Not many organizations defend the press in modern Russia. In fact, just one seems to be doing it vigorously. This one.

One summer night in 1764, in a provincial Russian village, a dispute broke out between two cousins. Words were exchanged, a pig was thrown, and a 30-year legal battle was born.