by Sarah Hurst Opposition activist Dmitri Borisov, 32, has been sentenced to a year in prison by a judge at Moscow’s Tverskoy court for allegedly injuring a policeman during the anti-corruption protest organised by Alexei Navalny on March 26 last year. Borisov has already been held in pre-trial […]
by Sarah Hurst Alexei Navalny has called on Russians to act as election observers on March 18 to register the fraud that is likely to occur. As he noted in a video published today, there were huge demonstrations after the fraudulent Duma election of December 2011. Since then […]
by Sarah Hurst In a video published yesterday that attracted global media attention (and has English subtitles), Alexei Navalny described how he found out that Russia’s Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Prikhodko had spent time on oligarch Oleg Deripaska’s yacht with escort women in 2016. Navalny followed a trail […]
by Sarah Hurst A judge in Tyumen has sentenced a volunteer at Alexei Navalny’s local campaign headquarters, Petr Kharitonov, to seven days in prison for speaking at the protest against Vladimir Putin’s rigged re-election on January 28. He was charged with “minor hooliganism”. Kharitonov held a sign at […]
by Sarah Hurst Alexei Navalny has called on people to publish a famous picture of Soviet soldiers in the victory parade in Red Square in 1945 holding captured German swastika flags and emblems. The picture appears on the cover of a history textbook that is commonly used in […]
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 Thousands of people all over Russia responded to Alexei Navalny’s call for protests today, and Navalny himself was forcefully detained while walking with supporters down Moscow’s Tverskaya Street. Police manhandled him and loaded him in a prone position into one of their vehicles, driving him […]
by Sarah Hurst Alexei Navalny has called on people in Moscow and St. Petersburg to come out tomorrow for rallies opposing the fraudulent election despite the fact that authorities in Russia’s largest cities have banned protests. In a video published today, Navalny said thousands of people should come […]
by Sarah Hurst Vladimir Putin visited his campaign headquarters in Moscow today, but it doesn’t get many other visitors, according to Navalny campaign volunteer Ivan Konovalov, who embarked on a quest to give his signature in support of Putin. Konovalov made a video showing how he walked around […]
Navalny vs. Putin 