by Sarah Hurst Alexei Navalny’s campaign coordinator in Kaliningrad, Yegor Chernyuk, was sentenced to 10 days in prison today in connection with his participation in the rally for an election boycott on January 28. Chernyuk and his deputy coordinator, Oleg Alexeyev, were detained yesterday after a search at […]
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 Alexei Navalny held three more rallies this weekend, in Barnaul, Novokuznetsk and Kaliningrad. Last time Navalny was in Barnaul, in March to open his campaign headquarters there, he was sprayed in the face with green chemicals while he was walking down the street. He wasn’t […]
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 […]
Navalny vs. Putin 