by Sarah Hurst Repressions against supporters of Alexei Navalny appear to be intensifying as the March 18 election approaches, with his campaign coordinator in St. Petersburg, Denis Mikhailov, being re-arrested today as he was about to come out of prison having served a 30-day sentence for his role […]
by Sarah Hurst Russia’s military might is its crowning achievement, Vladimir Putin made clear today in his annual speech to the Federal Assembly, as he showed a series of videos of nuclear weapons and prototype weapons that he claimed have no parallel anywhere else in the world. The […]
by Sarah Hurst Open Russia’s coordinator in St. Petersburg, Andrei Pivovarov, was detained in the entrance to his building this morning, swiftly put on trial and sentenced to 25 days in prison for his participation in the protests organised by Alexei Navalny on January 28. Pivovarov’s name appears […]
by Sarah Hurst St. Petersburg activist from the Vesna group Artem Goncharenko has been sentenced to 25 days in prison for “repeated violations of the rules of holding an action” for displaying a giant inflatable duck in the window of a flat during the January 28 protests organised […]
by Sarah Hurst Alexei Navalny was just one of thousands of people who took part in the now-annual march in memory of Boris Nemtsov in Moscow today, ahead of the third anniversary of his murder on February 27. Smaller gatherings were also held in many cities around Russia. […]
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 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 The minority ethnic republics of the North Caucasus and other parts of Russia are likely to produce the most fraudulent election results on March 18, and people there should act as observers to try to stop this, Alexei Navalny has said in a video published […]
by Sarah Hurst Catherine Solotsinskaya, the ex-wife of Vladimir Putin’s spokesman Dmitri Peskov, has lost her job as head of the Russian Centre for Science and Culture in Paris after Alexei Navalny drew attention to her expensive apartment on Place Victor Hugo. In a video published today Navalny […]
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 […]
Navalny vs. Putin 