Oscars 2023: The key moments from the Academy Awards ceremony In a night of historic wins, Al Jazeera takes a look at the key moments that shaped the Oscars this year. Al Jazeera · Mar 13, 2023
Alexey Navalny film on fighting the Kremlin wins Oscar Navalny, 46, fell ill in Siberia in 2020 and was flown to Germany, which said it found evidence he had been poisoned. Al Jazeera · Mar 13, 2023
Russia: Putin critic gets 8 years in jail for ‘false information’ Ilya Yashin was tried after casting doubt over the Kremlin’s narrative on atrocities that took place in Bucha, Ukraine. Al Jazeera · Dec 9, 2022
What is the Russian penal colony where Brittney Griner was sent? US basketball star was moved to a Russian penal colony, which are infamous for harsh conditions and forced labour. Al Jazeera · Nov 11, 2022
‘Thrown into the meat grinder’: Russians react to mobilisation After President Putin announced the partial mobilisation of population, ‘how to leave Russia’ spikes on search engines. Al Jazeera · Sep 21, 2022
US says Moscow abusing rights of jailed opposition leader Navalny Alexey Navalny was Russian President Vladimir Putin’s fiercest domestic critic before being jailed for nine years. Al Jazeera · Sep 10, 2022
The Fall and Fall of Dmitry Medvedev How the former Russian president went from geeky technocrat to deranged war hawk. Foreign Policy · Jun 23, 2022
Vladimir Putin critic shares grim punishments from inside maximum-security prison Alexei Navalny - Vladimir Putin's strongest political opponent - was jailed by the Kremlin at the start of 2021 upon returning to Russia after being poisoned with the novichok nerve agent while visiting Siberia in 2020 Daily Mirror · Jun 21, 2022
Jailed Putin critic Navalny calls on France to vote for Macron Imprisoned Russian opposition leader says France is ‘close’ to his heart and he felt he could address the French people. Al Jazeera · Apr 20, 2022
Ally of Russia's Navalny ordered to serve 6 months in prison A Russian court has replaced the parole-like restrictions on an associate of imprisoned opposition leader Alexey Navalny with a prison sentence The Independent UK · Apr 14, 2022
Ukraine: Russia-backed separatist stirs fears of chemical weapons Russia has allegedly used banned weapons several times in the past, including in the 2002 Moscow hostage crisis. Al Jazeera · Apr 13, 2022
Putin’s Russia: From a ‘great power’ to a ‘pariah state’ Will the invasion of Ukraine prove to be the Russian president’s undoing? Al Jazeera · Apr 5, 2022
Is the Ukraine war weakening Putin’s position in Russia? While increasingly isolated, analysts say the Russian leader is unlikely to be ousted by a mass uprising or coup. Al Jazeera · Mar 25, 2022
Russian journalist Oksana Baulina killed in Ukraine shelling Baulina was killed while she was filming the destruction from an earlier attack in Kyiv. Al Jazeera · Mar 24, 2022
Al Jazeera · Mar 22, 2022 US, EU slam Russia’s new sentencing of opposition leader Navalny EU foreign policy chief decries extra nine years handed to Kremlin critic Alexey Navalny as ‘politically motivated’.
Tribune News Service · Mar 22, 2022 Putin foe Navalny sentenced to 9 years after new conviction A Russian court on Tuesday sentenced jailed opposition leader Alexey Navalny to nine years in a high-security prison, according to Interfax, in a ruling that will keep President Vladimir Putin’s top critic sidelined amid a harsh crackdown on the opposition.
Al Jazeera · Mar 10, 2022 Anti-war protests intensify in Russia along with police crackdown As Russia’s war in Ukraine intensifies, so has defiance back home where police arrest thousands of protesters.
The Independent UK · Mar 8, 2022 Anti-war momentum growing in Russia, poll from opposition leader Navalny claims It’s taken just a few days of war to bring about ‘radical mood changes’ in Russia, Vladimir Putin’s foremost critic claims
Al Jazeera · Mar 2, 2022 Navalny urges Russians to protest daily against Ukraine invasion Jailed Kremlin critic calls on Russians to ‘fight for peace’, as he dubs President Putin ‘an insane little tsar’.
Al Jazeera · Feb 15, 2022 Kremlin kicks off new trial against opposition leader Navalny Investigators accuse Navalny of stealing more than $4.8m of public donations from the organisations he founded.