Month: February 2018

Navalny volunteer in Tyumen jailed for seven days

By XSoviet on February 7, 2018 • ( Leave a comment )

by Sarah Hurst A judge in Tyumen has sentenced a volunteer at Alexei Navalny’s local campaign headquarters, Petr Kharitonov, to seven days in prison for speaking at the protest against Vladimir Putin’s rigged re-election on January 28. He was charged with “minor hooliganism”. Kharitonov held a sign at […]

Navalny calls for publishing of swastikas at victory parade

By XSoviet on February 6, 2018 • ( Leave a comment )

by Sarah Hurst Alexei Navalny has called on people to publish a famous picture of Soviet soldiers in the victory parade in Red Square in 1945 holding captured German swastika flags and emblems. The picture appears on the cover of a history textbook that is commonly used in […]