Galina Starovoitova lived for a cause, to foster freedom and democracy in Russia. Now, almost three months after the federal deputy was assassinated in St. Petersburg, it appears ever more likely that ...

Galina Starovoitova was a feisty woman who rubbed elbows with world leaders and Russia’s kitchen-table intellectuals, who tutored Russian President Boris Yeltsin in his metamorphosis from Soviet boss ...

Galina Starovoitova at a rally in October 1998 The St. Petersburg City Court passed sentence today on six men accused of taking part in the murder of Galina Starovoitova, a State Duma deputy who was ...

Demonstrators in St. Petersburg The Kremlin has been shaken by the mass protests sparked by the implementation of the government's controversial reform to convert most in-kind social benefits to cash ...

MOSCOW — A St. Petersburg court Thursday convicted an organizer and a gunman in the murder of one of post-Soviet Russia’s most prominent democracy activists, sentencing the men to long prison terms.

MOSCOW — Just when Russians thought nothing could shock them anymore, the murder of Galina Starovoitova has proved them wrong. The outspoken legislator and human rights champion, shot to death in her ...

RIGA, Latvia — On Nov. 21, 1998, Galina Starovoitova and an aide climbed the darkened stairwell of her St. Petersburg apartment house, where two killers carrying three guns awaited their chance to ...