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Russia Sends Journalist To 2-Month Custody For Links To Alexei Navalny Group

March 29, 2024 admin

Alexei Navalny’s team has condemned the case (File) Moscow, Russia: A Moscow court on Friday ordered a journalist who covered the trials of late Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny to be held in pre-trial detention on “extremism” charges. Prosecutors say Antonina Kravtsova, a correspondent for the independent SotaVision outlet, participated in an “extremist organisation”, charges which…

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After Navalny’s Death, “Life In Danger,” Says Wife Of Another Putin Critic

March 25, 2024 admin

Vladimir Kara-Murza suffers from a neurological condition. Moscow: The wife of jailed Russian dissident Vladimir Kara-Murza said on Monday the lives of many political prisoners in Russia, including her husband’s, were at risk in the wake of Alexei Navalny’s death in an Arctic penal colony last month. Kara-Murza, who had condemned Russia’s war in Ukraine…

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Russia sentences Navalny supporters to prison

March 14, 2024 admin

Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny died in an Arctic prison colony last month. File image shows people laying flowers during a gathering. | Photo Credit: AP A Moscow court has sentenced two university students to more than three years in prison for their involvement with the late opposition leader Alexei Navalny. Russia in 2021 outlawed…

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Leonid Volkov, close ally of late Russian Opposition leader Navalny, reportedly attacked in Lithuania’s capital

March 13, 2024 admin

Russia’s Leonid Volkov. File | Photo Credit: AP Late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny’s long-time aide Leonid Volkov was assaulted with a hammer in the Lithuanian capital Vilnius on March 12, former Navalny spokesperson Kira Yarmysh said. “Volkov has just been attacked outside his house. Someone broke a car window and sprayed tear gas in…

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Putin Critic Exiled Navalny Ally Leonid Volkov Attacked With Hammer In Lithuania

March 12, 2024 admin

Leonid Volkov was a close ally of Alexei Navalny who died last month in February in an Arctic jail. Warsaw: Leonid Volkov, a close ally of late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, was attacked outside his home in Lithuania on Tuesday, independent Russian media outlets and Navalny’s spokeswoman said. “Leonid Volkov has just been attacked…

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Ahead of election, President Vladimir Putin’s programmes occupy most of TV shows in Russia

March 11, 2024 admin

Thousands of Russians braved the cold for hours earlier this month to honour the Opposition politician Alexei Navalny after his funeral. They chanted anti-war slogans and covered his gravesite with so many flowers that it disappeared from view. It was one of the largest displays of defiance against President Vladimir Putin since he invaded Ukraine,…

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Crackdown on dissent becomes the hallmark of Putin’s 24 years in power

March 7, 2024 admin

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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Alexei Navalny, who galvanised opposition to Putin, is laid to rest after his death in prison

March 1, 2024 admin

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…

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Putin Critic Alexei Navalny To Be Buried In Moscow Amid Tight Security Today

March 1, 2024 admin

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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Alexei Navalny’s funeral to be held on March 1, says spokesperson

February 28, 2024 admin

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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