MOSCOW, - A Russian court on Monday sentenced 72-year-old American citizen Stephen James Hubbard to six years and 10 months in prison after convicting him in a closed-door trial of serving as a mercenary for Ukraine, a Reuters reporter in the courtroom said. Russian court jails U.S. citizen Hubbard for nearly seven years on Ukraine mercenary charge Investigators said Hubbard, …
A U.S. soldier who was sentenced in June to nearly four years in a Russian penal colony after being found guilty of stealing $113 from his girlfriend and making threats to kill her, lost his court appeal against the verdict on Monday, RIA agency reported. Gordon Black, a 34-year-old U.S. staff sergeant, was detained on May 2 in Russia's far …
Honoree Mariah Carey speaks at the 51st Songwriters Hall of Fame induction and awards gala in New York on June 17. But when Carey’s attempt to trademark “Queen of Christmas” became public in July, several other singers associated with the holiday — including Darlene Love, whose “Christmas ” is another seasonal classic — protested Carey’s move. “Is it true that …
A Russian institute developing one of the country's potential coronavirus vaccines hopes to start its final stage testing in a small section of the general public in mid-August, the RIA news agency cited the institute's director as saying on Monday. Globally, of 19 experimental COVID-19 vaccines in human trials, only two are in final Phase III trials - one by …
