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 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, […]
by Sarah Hurst The coordinator of Alexei Navalny’s campaign headquarters in Volgograd, Alexei Volkov, has been sentenced to 15 days in prison ostensibly for delaying his rally there on Friday for 35 minutes. Volkov was detained during the rally and held at a police station for nearly two […]
by Sarah Hurst Today Alexei Navalny published a video about the luxurious US properties owned by NHL star Alexander Ovechkin and colleagues who have formed a “Putin Team” in advance of the election on March 18. Apparently living in the United States and becoming rich thanks to sports […]
By Sarah Hurst After filing his lawsuit against Vladimir Putin for refusing to give him permission for rallies, Alexei Navalny held two more successful rallies in Irkutsk and Kemerovo this weekend. He bypassed local authorities altogether by getting invitations to appear on private property. The owner of a […]
By Sarah Hurst Campaigners for Alexei Navalny in Tambov, south of Moscow, are paying the price for organising his successful rally last Sunday. The coordinator of Navalny’s headquarters in the city, Diana Rudakova, has been jailed for seven days. Deputy coordinator Leonid Yarygin has been jailed for 25 […]
