by Sarah Hurst Alexei Navalny announced that he would run for president of Russia on December 13, 2016. On February 8, 2017 a judge in Kirov found Navalny guilty of embezzlement and gave him a five-year suspended sentence, which meant that he would be ineligible to participate in […]
by Sarah Hurst Vladimir Putin once again refused to say Alexei Navalny’s name at his annual press conference, instead comparing him to Mikheil Saakashvili in response to a question from presidential candidate and Dozhd TV reporter Ksenia Sobchak. Former Georgian president and Odessa Oblast governor Saakashvili has been […]
by Sarah Hurst Alexei Navalny has called on his blog for a demonstration in support of free elections in Moscow on December 24, the anniversary of a huge protest that took place in 2011 after fraudulent Duma elections. Navalny is endorsing an event organised by Ilya Yashin, a […]
by Sarah Hurst A judge in Moscow has sentenced 33-year-old repair man Dmitri Krepkin to 18 months in prison for allegedly causing “serious pain” to an OMON riot policeman during the anti-corruption protest organised by Alexei Navalny on March 26. As Grani.ru reported, Krepkin was accused of hurting […]
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 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 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 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 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 […]
Navalny vs. Putin 