RUSSIAN OPPOSITION
Putin won the Russian elections with 87% of the vote
Election commission results on Monday showed that President Vladimir Putin has secured a fifth term with an overwhelming number of votes, in an election that held little suspense after the harshest crackdown on the opposition and free speech since Soviet times.Russia’s Central Election Commission ...
Alexei Navalny's mother demands Putin to release her son's body: 'Let me see my son'
Lyudmila Navalnaya, the mother of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, issued a heartfelt plea to President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday, urging him to intervene and release her son's body. Navalny's mother, dressed in black, made the appeal outside the Arctic pen...
Russia: Alexei Navalny, Putin's jailed critic, dead; his spokesperson says no confirmation yet
Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny died on Friday after collapsing and losing consciousness at the penal colony north of the Arctic Circle where he was serving a long jail term, the Russian prison service said. Navalny, by far Russia's most famous op...
Russian artists in Buenos Aires paint mural in honor of late opposition leader Navalny
Russian artists residing in Buenos Aires attempted to paint a large portrait of the late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny but were stopped by local police shortly before finishing it.Dozens of supporters chanted "Navalny" and put flowers on the mural.Naval...
'Don't equate Vladimir Putin govt with the entire country': Russian Oppn after Navalny's death
At Thursday’s joint meeting of the European Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee, Subcommittee on Human Rights and Delegation for relations with Russia, MEPs will discuss the state of Russia’s democratic opposition movement ahead of the country’s preside...
Russia: Detentions in Moscow at Alexey Navalny memorial
Detentions were being made on Friday in Moscow as residents laid flowers at the monument to political prisoners following the announcement of news of imprisoned opposition leader Alexey Navalny's death in a Russian prison.Russia: Detentions in Moscow at Alexey Navalny memorial
Alexey Navalny’s death: Joe Biden holds Putin responsible, says ‘Not surprised but outraged’
US President Joe Biden on Friday said he was “not surprised” but “outraged” after the reported death of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny.“He bravely stood up to the corruption, the violence and all the bad things the Putin government was doing,” Bide
Putin's main opponent, Alexei Navalny, missing from prison ahead of Russian Presidential Elections
Lawyers for Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny report no contact with him for a week, and his name is absent from the prison roster. Navalny, sentenced to 19 years in a Moscow penal colony in August for alleged extremist activities, is missing fo
Russia: Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny arrested upon landing in Moscow
Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was arrested Sunday at a Moscow airport as he tried to enter the country from Germany, where he had spent five months recovering from nerve agent poisoning that he blames on the Kremlin. Navalny's detention at passport control in Moscow’s S
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