by Sarah Hurst Vladimir Putin looked to be awarding himself around 74 percent of the vote in his spectacularly fraudulent election today, a big increase on his relatively modest 63 percent in 2012. With about 40 percent of the votes counted, the triumphant president briefly appeared on stage […]
by Sarah Hurst Vladimir Putin has been pulling out all the stops today to secure an overwhelming election victory. Fraud has been even more blatant than anticipated, with members of local electoral commissions from Dagestan to Yakutia caught on polling station videos stuffing ballots into ballot boxes. At […]
by Sarah Hurst Russia declared its polls open in Kamchatka and Chukotka this evening, with an official promising “I’m sure there are no violations,” while at the same time police surrounded Alexei Navalny’s campaign headquarters in St. Petersburg and detained supporters of Navalny all over the country. Navalny […]
by Sarah Hurst Several supporters of Alexei Navalny were detained yesterday and today in Murmansk, and one has already been put on trial. Yuri Fomin, who organised the January 28 protest in the city against Vladimir Putin’s rigged re-election, has been sentenced to five days in prison. This […]
by Sarah Hurst A volunteer with Alexei Navalny’s campaign has obtained three voter registration slips from different polling stations in Moscow, Navalny said on a video published on Tuesday. Ilya Pakhomov got the slips in the space of 30 minutes and could have got many more if he […]
by Sarah Hurst Five supporters of Alexei Navalny in St. Petersburg were given jail sentences today, ostensibly for “violations” during the protest against Vladimir Putin’s rigged re-election on January 28. Alexander Mironov was jailed for 15 days, Yekaterina Shlikhta, Ilya Gantvarg and Viktor Cherkassky for 10 days, and […]
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 A block of flats in Moscow has been built without any windows on the south side so that residents can’t see a palace belonging to First Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov, Alexei Navalny has said in a video published today. Obstacles have also been built […]
by Sarah Hurst Vladimir Putin held a “For a strong Russia” rally at Moscow’s Luzhniki Stadium today, a venue which will also host the World Cup final in July. There were multiple reports of state employees being bribed and cajoled to attend, including a tweet by reporter Marc […]
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 […]
Navalny vs. Putin 