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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 ...

In 2021, Moscow banned Navalny's Anti-Corruption Foundation, known for investigations into the alleged corruption of Putin's officials, labeling it "extremist." He nearly died in 2020 after being ...

Alexei Navalny, Russia’s best-known opposition figure, has died in a prison colony, authorities say. Biden and other Western leaders blame Putin. Feb. 16, 2024 Navalny’s networks were labeled ...

A court in Russia’s Vladimir region has sentenced three former lawyers of late opposition leader Alexey Navalny to prison terms of up to 5.5 years on charges of participating in an “extremist ...

Image: Alexei Navalny was Vladimir Putin's most prominent Russian critic. Pic: AP Yulia Navalnaya, the widow of the late Navalny, a staunch Vladimir Putin critic, said: "Vadim, Alexei and Igor are ...

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 ...