Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Gabrielius Landsbergis, confirming the attack, tweeted: “News about Leonid’s assault are shocking. Relevant authorities are at work. Perpetrators will have to answer for their crime.” Another photo, posted on Telegram, appeared to show Volkov being moved into an ambulance. Navalny died Feb. 16 in a Russian prison, and was buried … Read more
Russia’s financial monitoring agency has added ex-world chess champion Garry Kasparov to its list of “terrorists and extremists.” The listing, by Rosfinmonitoring, restricts client bank transactions, requiring users to get approval every time they access their accounts. Kasparov to expressed his amusement, calling the citation an “honor that says more about Putin’s fascist regime than about me. “Today … Read more
Ivanov faced charges for reporting on the Bucha massacre and other alleged war crimes by the Russian military during its full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Just last summer, however, Peskov was more equivocal about the state of Russian democracy. “Our presidential election is not really a democracy, it is a costly bureaucracy,” he remarked during an … Read more
Putin himself has not commented on the audio leak yet, but his spokesperson Dmitry Peskov warned Monday that, “The [military conversation] itself suggests that in the bowels of the Bundeswehr, plans for strikes on Russian territory are being discussed in a substantive and concrete manner.” Russia’s state-owned news agency TASS reported that Monday’s meeting between … Read more
A Moscow court sentenced rights activist Oleg Orlov to two-and-a-half years in prison for “discrediting the Russian armed forces” and “protesting against the war in Ukraine,” online Russian newspaper the Moscow Times reported Tuesday. “I have committed no crime. I am being tried for a media article I wrote in which I called the political … Read more
Bulgarian authorities have blocked two Russian citizens from entering the European Union for five years, accusing them of setting up identities in order to begin spying. The State Agency for National Security (DANS) said the two had previously been living in Bulgaria as Denis Rashkov and Diana Rashkova, but are in fact Russian operatives named … Read more
“The funeral is still pending,” Yarmysh said. “We do not know if the authorities will interfere to carry it out as the family wants and as Alexei deserves,” she added. A number of countries, including France, have called for an independent investigation into Navalny’s death. Yulia Navalnaya, Navalny’s widow, has vowed to continue her husband’s … Read more
Zhdanov claims that investigators should have released the body within two days of establishing the cause of death. According to the medical documents Navalnaya signed, after she was finally allowed to see her son Wednesday night — six days after his death — these two days expire on Saturday. A week after Russian authorities announced … Read more
The mother of the deceased Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, Lyudmila Navalnaya, has filed a lawsuit against Russia’s Investigative Committee for failing to release her son’s body, Russian state news agency Tass reported on Wednesday. The Salekhard city court reportedly stated the “complaint was filed against illegal actions and decisions.” A closed-door hearing is scheduled … Read more
But in a country with a population of 143 million, this hardly amounts to a political awakening or outpouring. No doubt Russian opposition leaders will attribute this to fear — the fear of incurring the wrath of a Kremlin that has ramped up a vicious crackdown on dissent and dissidents, meting out steep jail terms … Read more
