A Russian court on Tuesday convicted top opposition leader Alexei Navalny of fraud and contempt of court, sentencing him to nine more years in prison in a move that was… Read more »
Does Alexei Navalny embody the best chance for democratic change inside Russia since the crumbling of the USSR? Just over a year ago, on 17 January 2021, Navalny was arrested… Read more »
Alexei Navalny grows more powerful every time Putin talks about him, one observer suggests. Police took several allies of the jailed Kremlin critic into custody early on Thursday, ahead of planned… Read more »
Experts say the weekend protests in Russia, mainly in support of arrested opposition leader Alexei Navalny but also attracting members of the public angry at corruption and injustices in Russia,… Read more »
As an increasingly paranoid Kremlin retreats into what one analyst has called Putin’s ‘bunkerisation,’ another highlights the resilience of Russian civil society. A team of Russian state security agents poisoned… Read more »
Russia’s foreign minister said Wednesday that Moscow will respond in kind to the European Union’s sanctions over the poisoning of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, The Post reports: Last week,… Read more »
The European Union agreed Monday to impose targeted sanctions against Russian officials and entities allegedly involved in the poisoning of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny but officials insisted the move should… Read more »
The Case for a New and Improved Magnitsky Law – Policy Magazine https://t.co/yxo4gFIwE8 — Democracy Digest (@demdigest) September 14, 2020 International perpetrators of genocide and torture, but not corruption, are… Read more »
Even unconscious, Alexei Navalny has managed to needle the Kremlin and its allies. His organization, the Anti-Corruption Foundation, released a video on Monday that featured footage of Mr. Navalny denouncing… Read more »
Navalny will survive ‘poison attack’, Bizilj tells Bild | Article [AMP] | Reuters https://t.co/WskPkSYWNL — Michael McFaul (@McFaul) August 23, 2020 The harrowing videos of Alexei Navalny, a blogger who… Read more »