Navalny's backers kept up a drumbeat of claims over high-level corruption. In April 2021, his organization — which had released a widely viewed video called “Putin’s Palace,” about an ...

Human rights groups say the sentencing of Navalny’s associates shows the Kremlin is continuing to crack down on opposition to Putin’s rule and his war in Ukraine. “By targeting lawyers for ...

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Image: Alexei Navalny was Vladimir Putin's most prominent Russian critic. Pic: AP Yulia Navalnaya, the widow of the late Navalny, a staunch Vladimir Putin critic, said: "Vadim, Alexei and Igor are ...

Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny’s memoir, Patriot, is essential political reading, but be forewarned — it is a ...

Vladimir Putin has continued his crackdown on dissent after jailing the three lawyers who once represented the late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny. Vadim Kobzev, Igor Sergunin and Alexei ...

The verdict: Putin did not order Navalny killed. This is contrary to what President Joe Biden claimed at the time. “Make no mistake. Putin is responsible for Navalny’s death,” he said.

Three lawyers who represented the late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny have been sentenced to years in a Russian penal colony, as part of Vladimir Putin’s crackdown on dissent that has ...

As Vladimir Putin’s tyranny grew more nakedly ruthless after the renewed war in Ukraine in February 2022, Navalny’s predicament grew more dire. A sentence of nine years in a “strict regime” penal ...

A request to remove late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny from a list of “terrorists and extremists” has been rejected despite his death last year, his widow Yulia Navalnaya has revealed – ...

This was Navalny’s choice, an ode to one of his favourite films that could also be read as a political message: I’ll be back. As Ukraine suffers bombardment and Putin’s regime retains its ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Putin critic and anti-corruption leader Alexey Navalny died in prison at the age of 47. More from News Putin critic and anti-corruption leader Alexey Navalny died ...