by Sarah Hurst Alexei Navalny’s campaign chief, Leonid Volkov, has been sentenced to 30 days in prison for trying to organise a rally in Nizhny Novgorod that was abandoned because Navalny himself was arrested on the day when it was due to be held. Volkov previously served 20 […]
by Sarah Hurst In a week when Russia’s rocket launch from its new Vostochny space centre ended in disaster, with satellites crashing to the ground, Alexei Navalny is talking about the failures of Russian tech on his new video. Navalny demonstrated a “popSLATE” iPhone cover with an electronic […]
by Sarah Hurst Alexei Navalny’s campaign headquarters in Kaliningrad has published a video with a recording of a conversation between a 14-year-old volunteer, Alina, and the school’s head teacher, Valentina Gulidova, in the presence of her class teacher and her mother, who also participate. On his blog Navalny […]
by Sarah Hurst A court in Irkutsk has sentenced employee of Alexei Navalny’s campaign headquarters in the city Zakhar Sarapulov to six days in prison for helping to organise Navalny’s rally that took place on Nov. 4. Sarapulov immediately announced a hunger strike. He is the third person […]
by Sarah Hurst This weekend Alexei Navalny held rallies in Perm, Vladimir, Nizhny Novgorod and Chelyabinsk. All were attended by large crowds in temperatures well below zero. In Perm, as previously in Izhevsk, residents of a building invited Navalny to speak on their property, circumventing local authorities. This […]
by Sarah Hurst Ksenia Sobchak, the liberal TV presenter running for president who has been criticised for playing into the hands of the Kremlin, is being threatened with prosecution over her comments on Crimea. Sobchak posted a letter on Instagram from the Russian Prosecutor-General’s Office to Ruslan Ostashko, […]
By Sarah Hurst Alexei Navalny has slammed a decision by Russia’s Federal Anti-Monopoly Service (FAS) not to fine the companies belonging to Yevgeny Prigozhin for organising a cartel. Prigozhin is also notorious as the man behind the St. Petersburg troll factory. In October 2016 Navalny published a video […]
by Sarah Hurst The owner of a furniture showroom in Irkutsk who provided a venue for Alexei Navalny’s rally on Nov. 4, Dmitri Tolmachev, has been sentenced to five days in prison a day after Navalny’s campaign coordinator in Irkutsk was jailed for seven days. Tolmachev was convicted […]
by Sarah Hurst The coordinator of Alexei Navalny’s campaign headquarters in Irkutsk, Sergei Bespalov, has been jailed for seven days in a closed court session. Bespalov was convicted of organising a public event without requesting permission, despite the fact that Navalny’s rally in the city on Nov. 4 […]
by Sarah Hurst Alexei Navalny released a three-minute video today called “Why I’m better than Putin”. He focuses on the exorbitant price of electricity and takes Tambov Oblast as an example because four of his top campaigners there were jailed recently. The governor of Tambov Oblast, Alexander Nikitin, […]
Navalny vs. Putin 