A Moscow court on Monday issued an arrest warrant in absentia for the biggest foreign investor in Russia in the past decade, whose lawyer died in detention after revealing a massive fraud scheme. US-born Bill Browder and his Hermitage Capital hedge fund have been charged with illegally acquiring $70 million worth of stock in energy giant Gazprom.

The United States on Friday released the names of 18 Russians to be slapped with visa and financial sanctions under the controversial Magnitsky Act, which punishes individuals Washington deems complicit in human rights abuses. No senior federal Russian officials were included in the list published Friday on the website of the US Treasury Department. Several of the officials named are those that have been implicated in the West and by Russian rights activists in the 2009 death of Russian whistleblowing tax lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, after whom the US law is named. The list m

Russia has published its own list of US officials banned from Russia in response to the US’s list of Russian officials facing visa and financial sanctions under the Magnitsky Act, Russia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement on its website on Saturday. “We would like to draw particular information to the fact that, unlike the American list compiled arbitrarily, our list features primarily those implicated in torture and the indefinite detention of prisoners in the [US] Guantanamo prison camp, as well as those involved in the abduction and removal to other countries of Rus

Washington's publication of a blacklist of Russian officials allegedly connected to the death of a jailed Russian whistleblower is "a blow" to relations, President Vladimir Putin's spokesman said Sunday. The United States on Friday said it had imposed sanctions on 18 people seen as linked to Moscow's handling of the case of dead human rights lawyer Sergei Magnitsky. Russia retaliated by issuing its own blacklist of 18 US officials banned from entering the country.