American School in Moscow, has been released from Russian imprisonment in a prisoner swap on February 11. Fogel was designated as "wrongly detained" by the U.S. State Department after being imprisoned for carrying less than an ounce of medical marijuana.

Marc Fogel is finally back in the Pittsburgh area after three and a half years in a Russian penal colony. Last week, he returned to the United States, and Tuesday night, he came home.

Since Alexei Navalny's death in a Russian penal colony a year ago, the opposition has struggled without its charismatic leader. Despite efforts to unite against President Putin, rival factions have emerged instead.

Senate Minority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) and Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) on Tuesday introduced a bill proposing to rename part of the street near the Russian ambassador’s residence in Washington,

The stunning news came in a terse statement from the Russian penitentiary service a year ago: Opposition leader Alexei Navalny had died in the Arctic Circle penal colony.

A year after Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny died behind bars, his supporters held memorial events on Sunday, with hundreds risking reprisals by visiting his grave in Moscow.

On the first anniversary of Alexei Navalny's death, his widow, Yulia Navalnaya, accused Russian President Putin of suppressing the truth. Navalny, an opposition leader, was officially deemed dead from natural causes in a Siberian penal colony.