by Sarah Hurst For International Women’s Day Alexei Navalny has published a video in which he says that MP Leonid Slutsky not only sexually harasses female journalists, but is also a psychopath who has amassed hundreds of fines for driving dangerously in his luxury cars. Slutsky has been […]
by Sarah Hurst In a video published today Alexei Navalny has ridiculed Russian authorities for desperately trying to ban his investigation into Oleg Deripaska’s yacht voyage to Norway with escort Nastya Rybka and Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Prikhodko. “It turns out that oligarch Deripaska has not just a […]
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 Courts around Russia handed out an imaginative range of sentences today for people involved in yesterday’s mass protests against Vladimir Putin’s rigged re-election. Alexei Navalny’s campaign coordinator in Moscow, Sergei Boyko, and his former Moscow coordinator, Nikolai Lyaskin, both received 15-day jail sentences. Lyaskin was […]
by Sarah Hurst Alexei Navalny has announced his manifesto for the Russian presidential election, scheduled for March 18 – from which he is still banned because of a conviction on fabricated charges. He launched the manifesto with a series of short videos drawing attention to the problems in […]
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, […]
Navalny vs. Putin 