Russian authorities have restricted access to Alexei Navalny’s website and those of dozens of his close allies, the imprisoned opposition leader’s team has said. The action came as the government increased pressure on opposition supporters, independent journalists and human rights...
Tens of thousands of Russians have rallied in cities across the country in a last-ditch effort to secure the freedom of the jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny. The unsanctioned demonstrations have shown the determination of Navalny’s core supporters, who called for...
Russian police have briefly detained and interrogated Roman Anin, one of the country’s leading investigative journalists, in a criminal probe suspected to be motivated by revenge for his investigations into the Kremlin elite. Investigators on Friday searched Anin’s Moscow apartment...
Journalist Fedor Khudokormov was filming the protest postscript to Tuesday’s jailing of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny when a riot-police officer turned away from beating a young demonstrator to push the reporter away. Mr Khudokormov, who was wearing clearly identifiable yellow...
Supporters of jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny have taken to the streets in Siberia and the Russian far east for a second straight weekend despite a sweeping crackdown on his allies and warnings from the police. Rallies are also planned in Moscow...
The Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny has arrived in Moscow nearly five months after a suspected poisoning by Russia’s FSB spy agency left him fighting for his life. Navalny’s plane landed at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo airport on Sunday evening after being diverted from...
Vladimir Putin has denied Russia was behind the poisoning of the opposition leader Alexei Navalny, calling a recent investigation by Bellingcat a “falsification”. “Who needs to poison him,” he said during a nationally televised press conference, denying that Russia’s FSB spy...
