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

Vladimir Kara-Murza is a contributing columnist for Post Opinions. Yulia Navalnaya is a Russian opposition politician and the ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...