Alexei Navalny

Russian opposition faces challenges as Navalny’s widow takes the helm

Experts question if Russia's fractured opposition can challenge the Kremlin effectively.

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Yulia Navalnaya, the widow of late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, and Russian dissidents Vladimir Kara-Murza and Ilya Yashin attend a "No to Putin! No to war in Ukraine! Freedom for political prisoners!" protest in Berlin, Germany, November 17, 2024.
Russian President Vladimir Putin welcomes Russian nationals, including Artyom Dultsev, Anna Dultseva and their children, following a prisoner exchange between Russia with Western countries, during a ceremony at Vnukovo International Airport in Moscow, Russia August 1, 2024.

Yulia Navalnaya expresses bittersweet reaction to prisoner swap excluding her late husband

Yulia Navalnaya reflects on the reality of a recent prisoner swap that excluded her late husband, Alexei Navalny, highlighting both the hope and the ongoing struggle for Russia's opposition.

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Flowers and a portrait of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny are seen near the Russian embassy in Paris, France, February 16, 2024

Putin didn’t order Navalny’s death, US intelligence agencies claim - WSJ

The report found that, while Putin was responsible for Navalny’s death, he likely did not order it at the time it occurred.

|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny and his wife Yulia attend a hearing at the Lublinsky district court in Moscow, Russia, April 23, 2015

Russian opposition politician Navalny wrote memoir before death, says widow

The book is unlikely to be readily available in Navalny's native Russia, where the authorities outlawed his movement as extremist.

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Russia bans news outlet Bellingcat, labels it a security threat

Russia's Prosecutor General said the activities of Bellingcat its partner The Insider "posed a threat to... the security of the Russian Federation."

JULY 15, 2022ByREUTERS
Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a meeting with graduates of military academies on the eve of the 81st anniversary of the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union in World War Two in Moscow, Russia June 21, 2022.

Russia's Navalny moved to undisclosed location

When his lawyer arrived at Correctional Colony No. 2, a prison camp in Pokrov, 119 km (74 miles) east of Moscow, he was told: "There is no such convict here."

JUNE 14, 2022ByREUTERS
RUSSIAN OPPOSITION leader Alexei Navalny, who is accused of flouting the terms of a suspended sentence for embezzlement, inside a defendant dock during the announcement of a court verdict in Moscow, Russia earlier this month.

Russia's Navalny says he faces new criminal case, up to 15 more years in jail

Following the invasion of Ukraine, the Kremlin has accelerated its decades-long campaign to quash and silence Russia's domestic opposition.

MAY 31, 2022ByREUTERS
Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny takes part in a rally in Moscow, Russia, February 29, 2020.

Jailed Kremlin foe Navalny lambasts Putin's 'stupid war' in Ukraine

Navalny was appealing against a nine-year jail sentence he was handed in March for fraud and contempt of court.

MAY 24, 2022ByREUTERS
Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny takes part in a rally in Moscow, Russia, February 29, 2020.

With Putin in power, Navalny may never be free - FBK director

Alexei Navalny will now be moved to a more remote facility. It's unclear when or if he will appear in court or have any communication with his lawyers, who were detained.

MARCH 28, 2022ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
RUSSIAN OPPOSITION leader Alexei Navalny, who is accused of flouting the terms of a suspended sentence for embezzlement, inside a defendant dock during the announcement of a court verdict in Moscow, Russia earlier this month.

Russian court finds jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny guilty of fraud

Prosecutors had asked the court to send him to a maximum-security penal colony for 13 years on charges of fraud and contempt of court. A ruling is expected later on Tuesday.

MARCH 22, 2022ByREUTERS
RUSSIAN OPPOSITION leader Alexei Navalny, who is accused of flouting the terms of a suspended sentence for embezzlement, inside a defendant dock during the announcement of a court verdict in Moscow, Russia earlier this month.

Navalny activist flees Russia as top aides report threatening letters

Violetta Grudina was barred from standing for election last year in the Arctic port city of Murmansk.

JANUARY 27, 2022ByREUTERS
Russian opposition activist Violetta Grudina poses for a photo in Murmansk, Russia, May 26, 2021

Russia shuts down prominent human rights organization

The UN human rights office said Russian courts had decided to 'dissolve two of Russia’s most respected human rights groups and further weaken the country’s dwindling human rights community.'

DECEMBER 29, 2021ByREUTERS
Oyub Titiev, the head of the Chechen office of the Memorial Human Rights Centre, is welcomed after his release, outside of a penal colony settlement, in the town of Argun, in Chechnya, Russia, June 21, 2019.

Russia's ruling pro-Putin party wins parliamentary vote

With just 9% of ballots counted nationwide, the Central Election Commission said United Russia had won 38.57% of the vote.

SEPTEMBER 19, 2021ByREUTERS
Members of a local election commission count ballots at a polling station inside Kazansky railway terminal after polls closed during a three-day long parliamentary election in Moscow, Russia September 19, 2021.

Russia's Alexei Navalny takes aim at Putin in NYT prison interview

From his prison cell, Alexei Navalny called on world leaders, namely US President Joe Biden, to show "real decisiveness in the fight against corruption."

AUGUST 28, 2021ByTAL SPUNGIN
RUSSIAN OPPOSITION leader Alexei Navalny, who is accused of flouting the terms of a suspended sentence for embezzlement, inside a defendant dock during the announcement of a court verdict in Moscow, Russia earlier this month.