Thousands of Russians have posted selfies wearing red tops to show support for jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny‘s wife. Social media users shared the pictures after Navalny’s wife, Yulia Navalnaya, wore a red jumper in court when her husband was handed his verdict earlier this week. As his sentence was read, Navalny made a heart sign … Read more
Russia today claimed to have uncovered footage showing an aide to jailed Putin critic Alexei Navalny meeting an MI6 agent at a restaurant in Moscow. The footage run by state-backed media is the latest part of the Russian propaganda machine’s effort to discredit Navalny by claiming he is in league with Western intelligence, following two consecutive … Read more
Russian police are searching the properties of jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny today for evidence he breached coronavirus rules by calling for nationwide protests demanding his freedom. Navalny, 44, was arrested on return to Russia following months of treatment for novichok poisoning in Berlin, which he maintains was an assassination attempt ordered by President Vladimir … Read more
Alexei Navalny is Vladimir Putin’s most dangerous foe. Yesterday showed why. Tens of thousands of Russians in scores of cities turned out, even in temperatures below -50C, to protest against their rulers’ greed, lies and thuggery. Kremlin spin doctors dismiss the anti-corruption campaigner as a crook, a Western stooge and an extremist. They mock the … Read more
Belarusian strongman Alexander Lukashenko has claimed that his security forces had intercepted German calls showing that Kremlin foe Alexei Navalny’s poisoning had been faked. Lukashenko told visiting Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin in Minsk on Thursday that the call between Berlin and Warsaw showed that the incident was a ‘falsification’. ‘There was no poisoning of … Read more
Russian dissident Alexei Navalny could have had poison sprinkled in his underwear, according to the scientist who invented the nerve agent Novichok. Navalny remains in a coma in a Berlin hospital nearly two weeks after collapsing on a plane in Siberia in what German medics suspect was a poisoning. Friends of the Putin critic have … Read more
Russia today rejected claims that the Kremlin was behind the poisoning of Vladimir Putin critic Alexei Navalny, who is in a coma at a German hospital. Navalny’s friends have pointed the finger at Putin after the opposition leader fell ill on a flight in Siberia and was airlifted to Berlin in a critical condition. Kremlin … Read more
The desperate wife of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has begged arch-rival Vladimir Putin to allow him to leave the country for treatment after he fell into a coma amid suspicion he was poisoned with a cup of tea. Yulia Navalny, who has been barred from seeing her husband since he fell unconscious on a … Read more