Alexei Navalny’s doctors have again been denied access to him despite growing concerns over his health as Russian state TV imposed a news blackout on his hunger strike. The jailed Kremlin critic, 44, has been striking since March 31 demanding medical treatment for a litany of ailments and a team of medics including his personal … Read more
Russian politicians have told President Vladimir Putin that he ‘bears personal responsibility for the survival’ of Alexei Navalny as the Kremlin critic’s life ‘hangs by a thread’ in prison. Nearly a dozen lawmakers signed and published an open letter to the Russian leader as doctors warn Navalny’s health is failing amid a hunger strike. Vladimir … Read more
Russian politicians have told President Vladimir Putin that he ‘bears personal responsibility for the life’ of Alexei Navalny as the Kremlin critic’s life ‘hangs by a thread’ in prison. Nearly a dozen lawmakers signed and published an open letter to the Russian leader as doctors warn Navalny’s health is failing amid a hunger strike. Vladimir … Read more
Alexei Navalny’s life is in danger and he must be released from prison immediately, European Court of Human Rights demands European Court of Human Rights ordered Russia to release Alexei Navalny The court ruled that the opposition leader’s life was at risk Earlier this month, Moscow court sentenced Navalny to over two years in prison … Read more
The wife of prominent Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny has been fined by a Moscow court for taking part in an unauthorised rally in support of her husband. Yulia Navalnaya was fined 20,000 roubles (£192.02) on Monday, a day after being arrested at an unsanctioned protest in Moscow. Her lawyer Svetlana Davydova told Russia’s TASS news agency … Read more
Russian police are searching the properties of jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny today for evidence he breached coronavirus rules by calling for nationwide protests demanding his freedom. Navalny, 44, was arrested on return to Russia following months of treatment for novichok poisoning in Berlin, which he maintains was an assassination attempt ordered by President Vladimir … Read more
Alexei Navalny is Vladimir Putin’s most dangerous foe. Yesterday showed why. Tens of thousands of Russians in scores of cities turned out, even in temperatures below -50C, to protest against their rulers’ greed, lies and thuggery. Kremlin spin doctors dismiss the anti-corruption campaigner as a crook, a Western stooge and an extremist. They mock the … Read more
Belarusian strongman Alexander Lukashenko has claimed that his security forces had intercepted German calls showing that Kremlin foe Alexei Navalny’s poisoning had been faked. Lukashenko told visiting Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin in Minsk on Thursday that the call between Berlin and Warsaw showed that the incident was a ‘falsification’. ‘There was no poisoning of … Read more
Belarusian strongman Alexander Lukashenko has claimed that his security forces had intercepted German calls showing that Kremlin foe Alexei Navalny’s poisoning had been faked. Lukashenko told visiting Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin in Minsk on Thursday that the call between Berlin and Warsaw showed that the incident was a ‘falsification’. ‘There was no poisoning of … Read more
Russian dissident Alexei Navalny could have had poison sprinkled in his underwear, according to the scientist who invented the nerve agent Novichok. Navalny remains in a coma in a Berlin hospital nearly two weeks after collapsing on a plane in Siberia in what German medics suspect was a poisoning. Friends of the Putin critic have … Read more