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News Articles: navalny

Russia's Leonid Volkov, Chief of staff for the 2018 presidential election for Alexei Navalny's campaign, looks on, at the European Parliament in Strasbourg, eastern France, Dec. 15, 2021.

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The top strategist of late Russian opposition leader Navalny is attacked in Lithuania

A Navalny spokesperson said the assailant smashed a window of Leonid Volkov's car, sprayed tear gas into his eyes and started hitting him with a hammer in Lithuania's capital.

March 13, 2024
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  • GPB Newsroom
A woman touches a photo of Alexei Navalny after laying flowers at the Memorial to Victims of Political Repression in St. Petersburg, Russia, on Saturday.

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  • World

Alexei Navalny's team confirms his death. His mother is searching for his body

Alexei Navalny's spokesperson confirmed Saturday that the Russian opposition leader had died at a remote Arctic penal colony and said he was "murdered," but it is unclear where his body is.

February 17, 2024
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  • GPB Newsroom
Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny takes part in a march in Moscow on Feb. 29, 2020. Associates say he has been located at a prison colony above the Arctic Circle nearly three weeks after contact with him was lost.

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Missing Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny is located in an Arctic penal colony

Associates of the imprisoned Russian opposition leader said Monday that he has been located at a prison colony above the Arctic Circle nearly three weeks after contact with him was lost.

December 25, 2023
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  • The Associated Press
Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny stands in a Moscow courtroom on Saturday. The court turned down an appeal against his prison sentence.

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  • World

Russian Court Denies Appeal Of Jailed Kremlin Critic Alexei Navalny

The 44-year-old opposition leader was arrested in January after returning from Germany, where he was recovering from a near-fatal poisoning that he and Western governments have blamed on the Kremlin.

February 20, 2021
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  • Jason Breslow
Sergei Smirnov, pictured being detained at a "solo protest" in May 2020, was sentenced to 25 days in jail on Wednesday for allegedly calling on people to protest through a Twitter repost.

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  • World

Russian Journalist Jailed After Court Deems Joking Retweet A 'Call To Protest'

A Moscow court has sentenced Sergei Smirnov to 25 days in jail for retweeting a post that poked fun at his resemblance to a Russian musician and made reference to an upcoming anti-Kremlin protest.

February 04, 2021
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  • Rachel Treisman
Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny appears in the Moscow City Court in Moscow on Tuesday.

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  • World

Kremlin Critic Navalny Faces Court Hearing, Could See 3.5 Years In Prison

Alexei Navalny was arrested when he returned to Russia after recovering from poisoning, which he blames on Russia's president. He says the accusations against him are politically motivated.

February 02, 2021
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  • Lucian Kim
Opposition leader Alexei Navalny is escorted out of a police station in Khimki, outside Moscow, following the court ruling that ordered him jailed for 30 days.

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  • World

After Arrest, Kremlin Critic Navalny Calls On Supporters To 'Take To The Streets'

Alexei Navalny was arrested Sunday after arriving back in Russia from Germany, where he had been recovering from nerve agent poisoning. A judge ordered that he remain in custody for 30 days.

January 18, 2021
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  • Lucian Kim
Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, shown here at a 2019 rally in Moscow, says he plans to return to Russia.

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  • Europe

After Poisoning, Russian Opposition Leader Navalny Vows To Return To Russia

Alexei Navalny said he has purchased a Sunday plane ticket to return to Moscow. He has spent months in Germany recovering from nerve agent poisoning.

January 13, 2021
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  • Rob Schmitz
The European Union is placing punitive sanctions on Russian officials with close ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin over the poisoning of opposition leader Alexei Navalny (left).

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  • World

EU Sanctions Russian Officials Over Navalny Poisoning, Citing Chemical Weapons Use

It is "reasonable to conclude," the EU says, "that the poisoning of Alexei Navalny was only possible with the consent of the Presidential Executive Office."

October 15, 2020
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  • Bill Chappell
Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny posted a photo of himself with daughter Daria, son Zahar and wife Yulia on his Instagram account Tuesday from his hospital bed in Berlin.

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  • Europe

Alexei Navalny Releases Photo From Hospital Bed After Nerve Agent Poisoning

The Russian opposition leader plans to return to Russia, according to his spokesperson. "It's puzzling to me why anyone should think otherwise," the spokesperson said.

September 15, 2020
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  • Marisa Peñaloza

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