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18 Mar 2024

Putin Mentions 'World War 3' After Claiming Landslide In Russia Elections

In a historic victory, President Vladimir Putin secured an unprecedented win in Russia’s recent election, reinforcing his strong hold on power. This triumph, he stated, validates Moscow’s stance against West.

16 Feb 2024

Russian Oppn Leader And Putin Critic Alexei Navalny Dies In Prison

Navalny, 47, one of Putin’s most visible and persistent critics, was being held in a jail about 40 miles north of the Arctic Circle where he had been sentenced to 19 years under a “special regime”.

20 Aug 2021

Navalny poisoning: UK, US impose sanctions on Russian intelligence agents

Washington separately imposed sanctions on another two men and four Russian institutes. It said were involved in chemical weapons research or what it described as an assassination attempt against Navalny. Moscow has rejected their findings and accused the West of a smear campaign against it.

18 Apr 2021

Jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny 'at risk of kidney failure' warns doctors

The daughter of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny called on Russian authorities to allow a doctor to treat her father who is on hunger strike in prison. A day after a group of medical professionals warned he is at risk of kidney failure.

16 Mar 2021

Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny confirms he is being held in Russian prison camp

Navalny's precise location had been unknown after his legal team said last week that he had been moved from the nearby Kolchugino jail.

02 Mar 2021

United States imposes sanctions on Russia over poisoning of Alexei Navalny

The officials reiterated Biden`s call for Russia to release Navalny from prison. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Tuesday before the U.S. announcement that Moscow would respond in kind to any new U.S. sanctions over Navalny. Navalny was arrested and later sentenced to more than 2-1/2 years in jail for parole violations he said were trumped up.

20 Feb 2021

Moscow court rejects Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny's appeal against jail term

Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny lost his appeal on Saturday against what he said was a politically motivated decision to jail him for nearly three years. A Moscow court rejected Navalny`s appeal on Saturday, while shortening his original jail term by six weeks. The original term was 3-1/2 years. Navalny, President Vladimir Putin`s most prominent critic, was jailed earlier this month for parole violations.

31 Jan 2021

More than 4,500 held in Russia at protests against jailing of Navalny

Riot police broke up protests across Russia on Sunday in support of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny detaining more than 4,500 people. In a massive show of force, police imposed a sweeping security lockdown in the heart of Moscow, sealing off streets to pedestrians near the Kremlin. A column of protesters marched towards the prison in northern Moscow where Navalny is being held, chanting "Let him go!".

31 Jan 2021

Greta Thunberg, Russia's Alexei Navalny among nominees for Nobel Peace Prize

According to a Reuters survey of Norwegian lawmakers, nominees include climate campaigner Greta Thunberg, Russian dissident Alexei Navalny, the WHO and its COVAX programme to secure fair access to COVID-19 vaccines for poor countries. Norwegian lawmakers have nominated the eventual laureate every year since 2014, with the exception of 2019.

17 Jan 2021

Kremlin critic Navalny lands in Russia, flying home despite arrest threat

Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny flew home to Russia on Sunday despite Russian authorities` stated desire to arrest him and potentially jail him for years. His plane was diverted to another Moscow airport at the last minute in an apparent effort by authorities to thwart journalists and supporters greeting him. "This is the best moment in the last five months," he said.

25 Dec 2020

Russia opens criminal case against Kremlin critic Navalny's ally Lyubov Sobol

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian law enforcement agencies opened a criminal case against Lyubov Sobol, an ally of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny, and took her in for questioning early on Friday after raiding her home, Navalny and his supporters said.

17 Sep 2020

Alexei Navalny team says Novichok was found on water bottle in hotel room

A video posted on Navalny`s Instagram account showed members of his team searching the room he had just left in the Xander Hotel in Tomsk on Aug. 20, an hour after they learned he had fallen sick in suspicious circumstances. Navalny fell violently ill on a domestic flight in Russia last month and was subsequently airlifted to Berlin for treatment. Laboratories in Germany, France and Sweden have established he was poisoned by a Novichok nerve agent, though Russia denies this and says it has seen no evidence.

14 Sep 2020

Germany says French, Swedish labs confirm Alexei Navalny's Novichok poisoning

The apparent assassination attempt has brought tensions between Russia and Europe to new heights and fuelled calls for sanctions against Moscow - including scrapping the Nord Stream 2 pipeline, a Kremlin flagship project to bring more Russian gas directly to Germany under the Baltic Sea. Russia`s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov accused the West of using the incident as a pretext to impose additional sanctions on Russia, the Interfax news agency reported. German army doctors at Berlin`s Charite hospital, to which Navalny was evacuated after falling unconscious during a flight over Siberia last month, were the first to say he had been poisoned with Novichok. Navalny awoke from a coma last week.

11 Sep 2020

Russia clashes with Germany, other West allies over Alexei Navalny poisoning

The confrontation came at the monthly UN Security Council meeting on chemical weapons in Syria. The United States, Belgium, Britain, Estonia and France expressing concern at Germany's determination that 44-year-old Navalny was the victim of a chemical weapons attack using a military-grade nerve agent from the Novichok group. Britain's acting UN ambassador, Jonathan Allen, said a similar nerve agent was used "with lethal effect" in southern England in 2018 on former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter.

10 Sep 2020

Alexei Navalny's condition improving, police guard stepped: German media

Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny has made further progress in his recovery after what Germany said was poisoning with a Soviet-style Novichok nerve agent, Der Spiegel magazine reported. The Kremlin critic is being treated in Berlin`s Charite hospital after falling ill on a Russian domestic flight last month. Germany says Navalny was the victim of an attempt to kill him and has demanded an explanation from Russia.

03 Sep 2020

DNA: Alexei Navalny given dangerous poison 'Novichok' by Russia

Germany has said that Novichok, the nerve agent was used to poison Alexei Navalny, a critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin who is in a coma in a Berlin hospital. The nerve agent was developed in the Soviet Union in the 1970s and 1980s.

24 Aug 2020

Siberian doctors say they saved Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny's life

Doctors at the Siberian hospital that first treated Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny said that on Monday they had saved his life. The doctors, however, said that they had not found traces of poison in his system. Navalny, a long-time opponent of President Vladimir Putin, fell gravely ill on Thursday after what his allies believe was a poisoning and was airlifted to Germany for treatment on Saturday.

21 Aug 2020

Putin critic Alexei Navalny battling for life after suspected poisoning

Alexei Navalny was fighting for his life in a Siberian hospital on Thursday after drinking tea that his allies believe was laced with poison. If confirmed, it would be the latest in a long series of poisonings and suspected poisonings of people who have fallen out with the Kremlin.

20 Aug 2020

Russia's opposition politician Alexei Navalny poisoned, hospitalised

Alexei Navalny is unconscious and was placed on a ventilator in an intensive care unit. According to his spokeswoman Kira Yarmysh, he must have consumed something from the tea he drank this morning. The 44-year-old foe of Russia's President Vladimir Putin felt unwell on a flight back to Moscow from Tomsk.

28 Jan 2018

Opposition leader Alexei Navalny arrested as thousands rally against Vladimir Putin and 'pseudo-polls'

Russian police on Sunday detained opposition leader Alexei Navalny in Moscow.

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