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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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A woman lays flowers for late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny at the Solovetsky Stone, a monument to political repression that has become one of the sites of tributes for Navalny, with the headquarters of Russia’s Federal Security Services (FSB) in the background, in Moscow on February 23, 2024. | Photo Credit: AFP Several leading…
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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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Washington: Russian authorities must return the body of Alexei Navalny to his mother, the White House said Thursday, days after the opposition leader died in an Arctic prison. “The Russians need to give her back her son,” National Security Council spokesman John Kirby told reporters in Washington, so that Navalny’s mother can “properly memorialize… her…
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Last week, Russia authorities said that Alexei Navalny, 47, suddenly died in his Arctic prison. Paris: Alexei Navalny’s top lawyer, Olga Mikhailova, said on Wednesday that in life or in death the opposition leader would “influence history” as she paid an emotional tribute to the late Russian opposition icon. Mikhailova, who is arguably the most…
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Librarian Alexandra Karaseva, 67, stands in the library named after English novelis George Orwell in Ivanovo, a city located some 250 km northeast of Moscow, on October 20, 2023. From the shelves of the library, the old lady grabs books whose place she naturally knows. Orwell, Sorokin, Dostoevsky. | Photo Credit: AFP The librarian scans…
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Alexei Navalny threatened the Kremlin by establishing a network of political offices Moscow: Russia on Tuesday rejected an appeal lodged by Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny against a court decision to jail him for 19 years in a maximum security prison on extremism charges. The First Court of Appeal of General Jurisdiction ruled “to uphold the…
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