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 Shortly after 9 pm Moscow time this evening Alexei Navalny emerged from the offices of Russia’s Central Electoral Commission having submitted his papers to be nominated as a candidate in the presidential election. The commission had stayed open late to wait for him and the […]
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 After filing his lawsuit against Vladimir Putin for refusing to give him permission for rallies, Alexei Navalny held two more successful rallies in Irkutsk and Kemerovo this weekend. He bypassed local authorities altogether by getting invitations to appear on private property. The owner of a […]
By Sarah Hurst Campaigners for Alexei Navalny in Tambov, south of Moscow, are paying the price for organising his successful rally last Sunday. The coordinator of Navalny’s headquarters in the city, Diana Rudakova, has been jailed for seven days. Deputy coordinator Leonid Yarygin has been jailed for 25 […]
by Sarah Hurst Kremlin retribution against Alexei Navalny’s top campaigners and supporters is intensifying. This morning the head of Navalny’s Moscow headquarters, Nikolai Lyaskin, was greeted at home by police blocking his car and demanding that he accompany them to the station. He did so and was held […]
By Sarah Hurst The protests across Russia on October 7 attracted media attention worldwide, but now that interest has waned, arrests and trials are happening continuously. The website OVD-Info that monitors politically-motivated arrests has published a regional rundown of what’s happened so far in the wake of the […]
Translated by Sarah Hurst Original: https://navalny.com/p/5579/ For now I only know about how the actions of October 7 went from what the radio broadcasts. But even so it’s clear to me: only you move the country forward – those who came out onto the streets yesterday or participated in […]
by Sarah Hurst At the end of a long day in which thousands of protesters took to the streets in dozens of cities across Russia, people are still shouting slogans such as “Putin is a thief!” and “Free Navalny!” on Moscow’s Manezh Square and St. Petersburg’s Palace Square. […]
Navalny vs. Putin 