The well-known Russian opposition figure Alexei Navalny was posthumously awarded the Dresden International Peace Prize on Sunday. His widow Yulia Navalnaya accepted the award on his behalf, which is endowed with €10,000 ($10,774), at the eastern German city’s Schauspielhaus theatre. Former German president Joachim Gauck honoured the man who died in prison almost three months […]
Two journalists have been arrested in Russia on charges of “extremism” amid claims from the Kremlin they were connected to groups founded by late Russian politician and freedom fighter Alexei Navalny. Journalists Konstantin Gabov and Sergey Karelin both denied the charges of alleged “participation in an extremist organisation” with a penalty of six years in […]
US intelligence agencies have determined that Russian president Vladimir Putin probably did not order opposition politician Alexei Navalny killed at an Arctic prison camp in February, the Wall Street Journal reported on Saturday. Navalny, 47 when he died, was Putin’s fiercest domestic critic. His allies, branded extremists by the authorities, accused Putin of having him […]
LONDON (Reuters) -U.S. intelligence agencies have determined that Russian President Vladimir Putin probably didn’t order opposition politician Alexei Navalny killed at an Arctic prison camp in February, the Wall Street Journal reported on Saturday. Navalny, 47 when he died, was Putin’s fiercest domestic critic. His allies, branded extremists by the authorities, accused Putin of having […]
(Bloomberg) — Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda said Polish authorities had detained two people over an attack on an ally of the late Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny in the Baltic nation’s capital last month. Most Read from Bloomberg Leonid Volkov was assaulted with a hammer near his home in Vilnius in what the authorities suspected […]
Two people have been detained in Poland on suspicion of attacking Russian opposition activist Leonid Volkov, an ally of the late Alexei Navalny, the Lithuanian president announced. Mr Volkov was attacked in March outside his home in the Lithuanian capital, Vilnius, where he lives in exile. The attacker smashed one of his car’s windows, sprayed […]
FILE – Leonid Volkov, chief of staff for the 2018 presidential election of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, looks on, at the European Parliament in Strasbourg, eastern France, Dec. 15, 2021. Two people have been detained in Poland on suspicion of attacking Russian opposition activist Leonid Volkov, an ally of the late activist Alexei Navalny, […]
Within hours of opposition leader Alexey Navalny’s death in February in a Russian prison, a group of anti-Kremlin hackers went looking for revenge. Using their access to a computer network tied to Russia’s prison system, the hackers plastered a photo of Navalny on the hacked prison contractor’s website, according to interviews with the hackers, screenshots […]
A Catholic bishop in western Germany compared the treatment of late Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny to the trial of Jesus before the Roman governor Pontius Pilate, in comments to mark the Easter holiday of Good Friday. According to the Bible, Jesus was presented to the people and then taken back inside the governor’s palace, where […]
Authorities in Russia have detained six journalists across the country this month, including a journalist who covered the trials of Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny for several years, media freedom organization Reporters Without Borders said Thursday. Antonina Favorskaya was detained and accused by Russian authorities of taking part in an “extremist organization” by posting on […]
Two large portraits of the late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny have been spray painted behind a monument to Soviet soldiers in Vienna. The portraits were completed on Wednesday on the wall , which was already painted in Ukraine’s blue and yellow national colours after Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022. The […]
VIENNA (AP) — Two large portraits of the late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny have been spray-painted on a property owned by the family of a former Czech foreign minister behind a monument to Soviet soldiers in Vienna. The portraits were completed Wednesday on the wall behind the monument, which was already painted in Ukraine’s […]