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A woman registers to vote in Russia’s presidential election in the city of Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk on far eastern Sakhalin Island on March 17, 2024. | Photo Credit: AFP Kremlin critics called for massive protests at Russian polling stations on Sunday for the final day of a presidential election that is guaranteed to cement Vladimir Putin’s hardline…
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Russian police detain a man trying to lay flowers at a monument in St. Petersburg to honour Alexei Navalny on Feb. 17, 2024. | Photo Credit: AP When charismatic opposition leader Boris Nemtsov was gunned down on a bridge near the Kremlin in February 2015, more than 50,000 Muscovites expressed their shock and outrage the…
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Workers carry the coffin and a portrait of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny out of the Church of the Icon of the Mother of God Soothe My Sorrows, in Moscow, Russia, Friday, March 1, 2024. Relatives and supporters of Alexei Navalny are bidding farewell to the opposition leader at a funeral in southeastern Moscow, following…
General view of the Church of the Icon of the Mother of God, where service for Alexei Navalny, the Russian opposition leader who died in a prison camp, is expected to be held in Moscow, Russia on February 29, 2024. | Photo Credit: Reuters The funeral of late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny is scheduled…
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Russian President Vladimir Putin’s most vociferous critic Alexei Navalny was died on 16 February. Moscow: Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny will be buried in Moscow later on Friday amid tight security and fears of a police crackdown two weeks after he suddenly died at the age of 47 in an Arctic penal colony. Navalny’s allies…
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A man lays flowers to pay tribute to Alexei Navalny at the monument, a large boulder from the Solovetsky islands, where the first camp of the Gulag political prison system was established, near the historical Federal Security Service (FSB, Soviet KGB successor) building in Moscow, Russia, on February 26, 2024. | Photo Credit: AP The…
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A woman holds candles and a portrait of late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who died unexpectedly in prison. Reuters | Photo Credit: Reuters Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny was close to being freed in a prisoner swap at the time of his death, Maria Pevchikh, a Navalny ally, said on February 26, repeating her…
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Alexei Navalny died in an Arctic prison last week Rome: Leaders of the G7 nations on Saturday called on Russia to “fully clarify” how Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny came to die in prison last week. Their statement came hours after a spokesperson for Navalny’s team said the Russian authorities had finally handed over his…
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Yulia Navalnaya, wife of dead Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny. File | Photo Credit: AP Alexei Navalny’s widow said Russian President Vladimir Putin had personally ordered that his arch critic’s body should not be handed over to his family after his death in an Arctic jail nine days ago. Navalny’s mother has said authorities in…
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After the shock of Alexei Navalny’s death in an Arctic prison, Russian dissidents in exile are vowing to pick up the pieces and press on with their battle against President Vladimir Putin’s rule. “Of course we will cry in our bedrooms and bathrooms but publicly we’ll definitely continue fighting against the regime with all our…
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