Posts Tagged ‘alexei’

Alexei Navalny detained by Russian police upon arrival at airport

Police detained prominent Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny on arrival at a Moscow airport on Sunday after he flew home to Russia from Germany for the first time since he was poisoned last summer.The move, which could see Navalny jailed for 3.5 years for allegedly flouting the terms of a suspended prison sentence, is likely to […]

Putin Critic Alexei Navalny Detained After Landing In Russia

MOSCOW (AP) — Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was arrested Sunday at a Moscow airport as he tried to enter the country from Germany, where he had spent five months recovering from nerve agent poisoning that he blames on the Kremlin. Navalny’s detention at passport control in Moscow’s Sheremetyevo airport was widely expected because Russia’s […]

Collision course: Russia prepares for Alexei Navalny’s return

O f all the people who could have advised Alexei Navalny on his future in or out of Russia, his longtime adviser Vladimir Ashurkov was better placed than most.   The financier himself fled to London in 2014 after the Kremlin dropped heavy hints of a likely arrest — a direct consequence of him coordinating […]

Novichok traces found on water bottle in Alexei Navalny’s hotel room, his colleagues say

Colleagues of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny said Thursday that a bottle of water with a trace of the Novichok nerve agent was found in his hotel room after his poisoning. Navalny fell ill on a flight from Siberia to Moscow on August 20 and was flown to Germany, where he was kept in an […]

Alexei Navalny suspected poisoning: Doctors say improvement in symptoms of Russian opposition leader

Russia will not open a criminal investigation into the sudden illness of Vladimir Putin critic and opposition leader Alexei Navalny. A preliminary probe established that “no deliberate criminal acts” were committed against him, the Prosecutor General’s office said on Wednesday. Western leaders – including German Chancellor Angela Merkel, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson and U.S. […]

Alexei Navalny suspected poisoning: Doctors say improvement in symptoms of Russian opposition leader

Russia will not open a criminal investigation into the sudden illness of Vladimir Putin critic and opposition leader Alexei Navalny. A preliminary probe established that “no deliberate criminal acts” were committed against him, the Prosecutor General’s office said on Wednesday. Western leaders – including German Chancellor Angela Merkel, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson and U.S. […]

Pictures of the week: Alexei Navalny, Belarus protests and California fires

Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny fell ill during a flight to Moscow, with his allies claiming he was poisoned because of his political activity and pickets held in Russia in his support. Protesters continued to flock to the street of capital Minsk and other major cities in opposition to the official results of the August […]

‘Poison is part of Putin’s policy,’ says Alexei Navalny associate

Alexei Navalny associate and Moscow city councillor Konstantin Jankauskas has dismissed the claims coming out of Russia that there was no poison found in Navalny’s blood. Speaking to Euronews, he said “poison is part of Putin’s policy.” Doctors treating Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny at a hospital in Siberia say he’s too ill to be […]

Russian officials bar opposition leader Alexei Navalny from running for president

Russian election officials on Monday formally barred Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny from running for president, prompting calls from him for a boycott of next year’s vote. The Central Election Commission decided unanimously that the anti-corruption crusader isn’t eligible to run. Navalny is implicitly barred from running for office because of […]

Journalist Alexei Wood Faces Decades In Prison For Covering DisruptJ20 Protests

November 21, 2017 By Aaron Kesel Independent journalist Alexei Wood faces decades in prison for covering rioters (J20) as they protested President Donald Trump’s inauguration in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 20th, Tech Dirt reported. This is a chilling attack on First Amendment freedoms. According to Wood, a 37-year-old freelance photojournalist based in the […]

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