Susan Hodgson says she was in shock when she returned from vacation to find her property razed to the ground. The old family property, where no one had lived for about 15 years, was mistakenly ...

A popular young Russian opposition activist has been convicted in Moscow of "inciting extremism" for political blogs he posted years ago. But Yegor Zhukov, 21, received a suspended sentence of ...

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