Kremlin critic Navalny defiant but gaunt after hunger strike
Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny denounced Russian President Vladimir Putin as a “naked, thieving king” on Thursday, looking gaunt but defiant in a courtroom video link...
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Russian authorities paint over large Navalny mural in St Petersburg
Russian authorities rapidly painted over a large mural of jailed opposition politician Alexei Navalny on Wednesday after it appeared overnight on a building in central...
Top Navalny allies arrested as protesters prepare to defy Putin
Two of Alexei Navalny’s closest allies were arrested on Wednesday, their lawyers said, at the start of a planned day of mass protests in support...
Navalny in critical condition, ally fears the worst
An ally of jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny said on Monday she was braced for bad news on the health of the hunger-striking opposition politician...
Russian prison threatens to force feed hunger-striking Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny
Staff at the Russian prison holding hunger-striking Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny are threatening to force feed him, his allies said on Monday, warning he had...
Alexei Navalny and Mulberry Street
By Gwynne Dyer By now Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny will have reached Correctional Facility No 2 (IK-2), where he will be spending the next...
Moscow accuses US of ‘anti-Russian lunge’ after imposition of sanctions, pledges retaliation (Update 2)
The Kremlin on Wednesday played down the impact of sanctions imposed by the United States and the European Union over Moscow’s treatment of opposition politician...
Russia beefs up fines for protest violations after Navalny rallies
Russian President Vladimir Putin approved legislation on Wednesday beefing up fines for offences committed during street protests after thousands were detained at unsanctioned rallies in...
Russia issues CIS-wide arrest warrant for close Navalny ally
Russia has issued an arrest warrant that covers a swath of other former Soviet republics for one of jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny’s closest allies,...
Russia to try jailed Kremlin critic Navalny for slander amid EU talks
Jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny is due back in court on Friday for a slander trial despite Western calls for his release and on the same day...
Lenin comes to town (again)
By Gwynne Dyer When Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny returned to Moscow on Sunday after convalescing in Germany from an attempted poisoning by the FSB domestic...
Police arrest over 1,000 at Russia protests backing jailed Kremlin foe Navalny (updated)
Police detained over 1,000 people across Russia on Saturday and used force to break up rallies around the country as tens of thousands of protesters...
Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny to fly to Russia on Sunday despite risks
Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny said on Wednesday he would fly back to Russia on Jan. 17 from Germany where he has been recovering after being...
Kremlin critic Navalny’s bank accounts frozen, apartment seized-spokeswoman
Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny’s bank accounts were frozen and his Moscow apartment seized under a lawsuit while he was recovering from a suspected poisoning...
Kremlin critic Navalny posts photo of himself walking
Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny was seen walking down the stairs in a photo posted on his Instagram feed on Saturday, five days after a Berlin hospital...
Navalny team says Novichok was found on water bottle in hotel room
The nerve agent used to poison Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny was detected on an empty water bottle from his hotel room in the Siberian city...
Germany says French, Swedish labs confirm Navalny’s Novichok poisoning
The German government said on Monday two more laboratories have independently confirmed that Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny was poisoned with the Soviet-style nerve agent Novichok...
Russian court rejects complaint over law agency’s handling of Navalny case
A Russian court said on Friday it had rejected a complaint filed by allies of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny accusing a top law enforcement body...
Russian prosecutors say no need for criminal investigation in Navalny affair (Update)
Russian prosecutors said on Thursday they saw no need for a criminal investigation into the sudden illness of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny, who his supporters...
Putin critic Navalny under guard after likely poisoning, says Germany (Update)
Germany said on Monday it had placed Alexei Navalny under guard in hospital after determining that the long-time critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin had most likely...