Navalny briefly held ahead of Russia’s March election
Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was detained by police on Thursday but then released a short while later, weeks ahead of a presidential election in...
Alexei Navalny
Russian court upholds ban on Navalny running against Putin
Russia’s Supreme Court on Saturday dismissed an appeal by Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny against a decision by the country’s central election commission to bar...
Putin critic Navalny calls election boycott rallies
Opposition leader Alexei Navalny announced on Wednesday a series of rallies across Russia in January to press home his call for a boycott of next year’s presidential...
Russian court says opposition leader Navalny guilty of embezzlement
A Russian judge said on Wednesday that opposition leader Alexei Navalny was guilty of embezzlement, Interfax news agency reported, a decision that may force the...
Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny and supporters attacked
Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny and fellow anti-corruption activists were attacked, thrown to the ground and kicked by a group of men at an airport...
Kremlin critic Navalny walks out of Moscow jail
Prominent Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny walked out of a Moscow detention centre on Friday, a week after fellow opposition leader Boris Nemtsov was shot dead...
Police stand by for now as Kremlin critic defies house arrest
By Timothy Heritage Ten days after cutting off his monitoring tag and declaring he would not stay under house arrest, Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny says...
Bailed Russian opposition leader vows to become Moscow mayor
By Gabriela Baczynska and Maria Tsvetkova Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny told cheering supporters on Saturday he wants to contest and win an election to...
Russian opposition leader freed temporarily after protests
By Gabriela Baczynska and Timothy Heritage Russia temporarily freed Alexei Navalny on Friday, bending to the will of protesters who denounced the opposition leader’s five-year...
Russian opposition leader Navalny sentenced to five years jail
By Gabriela Baczynska Russian protest leader Alexei Navalny was sentenced to five years in jail for theft on Thursday, an unexpectedly tough punishment which his...
Supporters cheer defendants at ‘show trial’ of anti-Putin protestors
By Maria Tsvetkova Supporters applauded and chanted “We will win” in a Moscow courthouse on Thursday as 12 Russians went before a judge charged with...
