by Sarah Hurst Alexei Navalny has published a short New Year’s address to the Russian people in the style of the president’s annual address, but in front of a drawing of the Kremlin instead of the real one. Yesterday Russia’s Supreme Court upheld the Central Electoral Commission’s decision […]
by Sarah Hurst A protester who participated in the “Don’t Call Him Dimon” anti-corruption rally in Russia’s northwestern city of Petrozavodsk on March 26 has been given a one-year suspended sentence with two years of probation for allegedly injuring a policeman. 33-year-old Yevgeny Vladenkov, an insolvency practitioner, can […]
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 has come out fighting in response to his election ban, calling for a nationwide protest on January 28. He is announcing the protest a month in advance to give authorities plenty of notice so that the “swindlers” can’t quickly set up festivals and […]
by Sarah Hurst After skipping his nomination meeting yesterday, Vladimir Putin came to the Central Electoral Commission today to hand over his paperwork to register as an “independent candidate”. The procedure was broadcast live by TASS and only lasted for a few minutes. Putin smiled a lot and […]
by Sarah Hurst Today a hall full of Russia’s top celebrities gathered to nominate Vladimir Putin as a candidate in an election in which his main opponent, Alexei Navalny, is banned from participating. Putin has already been in power for 18 years and is planning to remain in […]
by Sarah Hurst A day after submitting his nomination papers to Russia’s Central Electoral Commission, Alexei Navalny has been officially barred from the presidential election on March 18 on the pretext that he has a criminal conviction. Russia’s Constitution says that anyone who is competent and who is […]
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 Can Russia’s police be persuaded to support Alexei Navalny? Although they have arrested Navalny himself many times as well as hundreds of his supporters, he has also said that police generally express interest in his policies while handcuffing him and taking him to court and […]
by Sarah Hurst Dmitri Peskov, the moustachioed press secretary for Vladimir Putin, purchased an apartment on Place Victor Hugo in Paris for his ex-wife Catherine Solotsinskaya and daughter Liza Peskova for 1.8 million euros in September 2016, Alexei Navalny claims in his latest video. Navalny found Solotsinskaya’s address […]
Navalny vs. Putin 