by Sarah Hurst Alexei Navalny’s press secretaries Ruslan Shaveddinov and Kira Yarmysh were sentenced to eight days and five days in prison respectively for hosting coverage of Sunday’s protests on YouTube and allegedly tweeting about them from accounts belonging to Navalny’s campaign. Shaveddinov and Yarmysh broadcast all day […]
by Sarah Hurst Courts around Russia handed out an imaginative range of sentences today for people involved in yesterday’s mass protests against Vladimir Putin’s rigged re-election. Alexei Navalny’s campaign coordinator in Moscow, Sergei Boyko, and his former Moscow coordinator, Nikolai Lyaskin, both received 15-day jail sentences. Lyaskin was […]
by Sarah Hurst Thousands of people all over Russia responded to Alexei Navalny’s call for protests today, and Navalny himself was forcefully detained while walking with supporters down Moscow’s Tverskaya Street. Police manhandled him and loaded him in a prone position into one of their vehicles, driving him […]
by Sarah Hurst The deputy coordinator of Alexei Navalny’s campaign headquarters in Kemerovo, Boris Pavlov, has been jailed for three days, according to the local campaign coordinator, Ksenia Pakhomova. Eight plain-clothes police officers also came to Pakhomova’s flat this morning, took the keys to the flat and a […]
by Sarah Hurst Alexei Navalny has called on people in Moscow and St. Petersburg to come out tomorrow for rallies opposing the fraudulent election despite the fact that authorities in Russia’s largest cities have banned protests. In a video published today, Navalny said thousands of people should come […]
by Sarah Hurst Courts in several regions of Russia handed out jail sentences to Navalny supporters today, as a crackdown ahead of planned protests on Sunday intensified. Navalny’s campaign coordinator in Orsk, Alexei Kozlov, was jailed for five days for refusing to allow police into the local campaign […]
by Sarah Hurst Two Navalny supporters in Kirov were jailed today – Georgy Uspensky, an assistant to the coordinator of Navalny’s campaign headquarters in the city, for five days for organising a rally on October 7, and volunteer Richard Rouz for three days for non-payment of a fine, […]
by Sarah Hurst Alexei Navalny has called on people to protest against the election in rallies across the country this Sunday, in a video published today called “First Step to Victory”. He showed images of mass protests against corruption all over the world, including in France, South Korea […]
by Sarah Hurst The coordinator of Alexei Navalny’s headquarters in Rostov-on-Don, Anastasia Deyneka, has been jailed for eight days, and campaign employee Vladimir Kobzev for 10 days. Journalist and campaign employee Timofey Martynenko has been fined 250,000 roubles ($4,421), and campaign employee Leonid Sankin 75,000 roubles ($1,326), OVD-Info […]
by Sarah Hurst Alfa Bank has frozen an account belonging to Alexei Navalny’s election campaign foundation Fifth Time of Year after Moscow’s Meshchansky court ruled today that the foundation should be dissolved, upholding a request by Russia’s Justice Ministry. Navalny’s campaign chief, Leonid Volkov, said on Twitter that […]
Navalny vs. Putin 