The Latest Breaking News from Alexei Navalny

Arrests, armed soldiers and opposition parties banned: How Putin controlled Russia’s ‘sham’ elections

IN FOCUS: Russia turned away independent European observers as critics said there were few avenues for genuine dissent in the country’s first wartime parliamentary elections, Maira Butt reports

The Independent UK · Sep 21

Ukraine-Russia war latest: Zelensky arrives in New York after Trump says Putin has ‘lost control of oil’

Zelensky said earlier he will travel to New York later this week to meet the US President

The Independent UK · Sep 21

Putin's party wins record number of parliamentary seats in first vote since 2022 invasion of Ukraine

The main Kremlin party enlarged its majority with a record 355 seats in parliament, Russian election officials said Monday, after a carefully orchestrated ballot that excluded most opposition candidates helped the government maintain its tight grip on power. The election was the first since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in…

France 24 · Sep 20

Russia bars only anti-war party from elections

MOSCOW - Russia's Supreme Court on Monday barred the country's only anti-war party, Yabloko, from contesting September's parliamentary elections.

Bangkok Post · Aug 10

Kremlin critic leaves Moscow for Paris after ban from running for election

Russian anti-war politician Boris Nadezhdin has left the country after being prevented from standing in September’s parliamentary elections, becoming the latest prominent Kremlin critic to move abroad amid an intensifying crackdown on dissent.

Radio France Internationale · Aug 5

'Absurd': Putin critic Boris Nadezhdin found guilty in 'extremist symbols' case, barring him from parliamentary race

Russian opposition politician Boris Nadezhdin was convicted of displaying extremist symbols. This ruling prevents him from contesting upcoming parliamentary elections in Russia. Nadezhdin had previously criticized President Vladimir Putin and the Ukraine war. Another Putin critic, Ilya Remeslo, was also arrested on charges of spreading false military information. Russian authorities…

The Times of India · Jul 17

Man gifted his girlfriend a perfume he’d found. A few hours later, they became collateral damage in an international assassination plot

“It went so tragically wrong so quick."

We Got This Covered · Jul 13

UK sanctions Russian scientists and labs behind chemical attacks, foreign office says

The institutions hit were SC Signal, a Russian state scientific research institute and GNIII VM, the country's Scientific Research and Testing Institute for Military Medicine.

Euronews · Jul 6

UK sanctions Russian labs and people over chemical weapons used on Navalny and Skripal

Britain has imposed sanctions on nine Russian people and entities for developing chemical weapons

The Independent UK · Jul 6

UK sanctions Russian scientists and research labs linked to Salisbury attack

The sanctions also targeted the Russians involved in the development of the Epibatidine toxin used against Alexei Navalny.

The Independent UK · Jul 6