Navalny fell into a coma while aboard a domestic flight from Siberia to Moscow on Aug. 20. He was transferred from a hospital in Siberia to a Berlin hospital two days later. Labs in Germany, France and Sweden, and tests by the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, established that he was exposed to the Soviet-era Novichok nerve agent. … [Read more...] about Russia arrests 2,100 protesters calling for Navalny’s release
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Thousands arrested at Russia protests, including opposition leader Navalny’s wife
Navalny has been jailed repeatedly in connection with protests and twice was convicted of financial misdeeds in cases that he said were politically motivated. He suffered significant eye damage when an assailant threw disinfectant into his face and was taken from jail to a hospital in 2019 with an illness that authorities said was an allergic reaction but that many suspected was poisoning. … [Read more...] about Thousands arrested at Russia protests, including opposition leader Navalny’s wife
Wife of Russian Dissident Navalny Among Hundreds Arrested at Rallies Across Country
Thousands of Navalny’s supporters were in the streets of more than 60 Russian cities Saturday to demand the Kremlin critic’s immediate release, defying the measures taken by police to break up the protests, which they have declared illegal. … [Read more...] about Wife of Russian Dissident Navalny Among Hundreds Arrested at Rallies Across Country
Kremlin: Dissident Navalny’s Growing Anti-Putin Movement Is ‘Unacceptable’
Navalny, a conspicuous critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin and his government, was jailed upon returning to his native Russia from Germany on January 17. A Moscow court ruled the next day that Navalny will remain in police custody until February 15 while authorities prepare a new trial to determine “whether he violated the terms of a controversial suspended sentence handed down in 2014 by not reporting to authorities in person while in Germany,” the Moscow Times reported. … [Read more...] about Kremlin: Dissident Navalny’s Growing Anti-Putin Movement Is ‘Unacceptable’
Thousands Arrested in Protests Supporting Russian Opposition Leader
“The way they arrested him was against our constitution,” said Ilya, 23, a demonstrator in Moscow. “If they can do it to a person like Navalny — with millions of followers online — they can do it to us.” … [Read more...] about Thousands Arrested in Protests Supporting Russian Opposition Leader
