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Navalny, Putin's main political opponent, communicated with the world by transmitting messages through his lawyers that his team then published on social media. Passing letters and messages ...

Human rights groups say the sentencing of Navalny’s associates shows the Kremlin is continuing to crack down on opposition to Putin’s rule and his war in Ukraine. “By targeting lawyers for ...

President Vladimir Putin has clamped down on free expression in Russia to a degree unseen since the Soviet era. Now he is ...

Ms Navalnaya believes that Putin is responsible for Mr Navalny’s death and has offered a reward to witnesses who may have evidence that he was murdered. World leaders have lined up to lay blame ...

Three lawyers for the late opposition leader Alexei Navalny were found guilty by a Russian court on Friday of participating in an "extremist organisation" and sentenced to years in jail.

He died in a remote Arctic prison on February 16, 2024 in unclear circumstances. His allies and family say he was murdered on ...

Russia on Friday sentenced three lawyers who had defended Alexei Navalny to several years in prison for bringing messages from the late opposition leader from prison to the outside world.

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 ...

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 ...