Threats of prosecution, firings, and worse have been directed at the government’s perceived political opponents. The targets are our fellow citizens in every conceivable field including our ...

Musician Vadim Stroykin, known for public criticism of Vladimir Putin, found dead on ground outside apartment building after ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Lawyers Igor Sergunin, from left, Alexei Liptser ... from him to his team. Navalny, an anti-corruption campaigner and outspoken opponent of President Vladimir Putin, was arrested in 2021 upon ...

Alexei Navalny, Russia’s best-known opposition ... to pass information from him to his team. Russian President Vladimir Putin’s government has evolved from tolerating dissent to ruthlessly ...

The top lawyer of late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who died in a Russian prison ... His allies and family say he was murdered on President Vladimir Putin's orders. Navalny himself ...

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 – ...

A request to remove late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny from a list of ... has revealed – saying that it shows Vladimir Putin is still afraid of her husband. Russia’s financial ...

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