by Sarah Hurst Alexei Navalny was detained today on his way out of a dentist’s surgery. “My tooth hurt, I went to the dentist’s. I came out of the dentist’s – hello, second operative division, you’re detained. They’re taking me somewhere,” he tweeted. Earlier in the day the […]
by Sarah Hurst Opposition activist and Moscow local legislator Ilya Yashin was detained today outside his home because he organised an unauthorised rally on Sunday. Yashin tweeted that he was taken away by five police officers. On arrival at the police station his phone was confiscated and later […]
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 Unexpectedly, Alexei Navalny’s campaign chief Leonid Volkov was released from prison this morning, a few days into his 20-day sentence. Volkov was sentenced along with Navalny for “calling for unauthorised rallies” and had announced a hunger strike. There was speculation on social media that the […]
Navalny vs. Putin 