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A Russian court has fined Yulia Navalnaya for taking part in unsanctioned rallies at the weekend in support of her jailed husband, opposition politician and anti-corruption crusader Aleksei Navalny.
Allies of Aleksei Navalny are calling on his supporters to gather at a Moscow courthouse on February 2 where the jailed opposition politician has a hearing looking at converting a suspended sentence he served into real jail time in a case widely considered to be politically motivated.
Russian riot police were out in large numbers across the country on January 31 to prevent and break up unsanctioned rallies called for by anti-corruption activist Aleksei Navalny and his team. Navalny's wife, Yulia Navalnaya, was among more than 840 people detained in Moscow.
Andrei Afanasyev, a freelance correspondent for RFE/RL's Russian Service, has been detained as he traveled to cover anti-government protests in Russia's Far East city of Blagoveshchensk.
Law enforcement officers were out in force in downtown Moscow on the morning of January 31. People were being detained as protests had been announced to take place across Russia in support of jailed opposition leader and anti-corruption activist Aleksei Navalny.
Activists have scheduled a second round of nationwide protests in Russia on January 31, demonstrating against government corruption and demanding the release of Aleksei Navalny -- while Russian police have stepped up a crackdown on supporters of the jailed opposition leader.
A Russian court has rejected opposition leader Aleksei Navalny's appeal against his arrest as authorities stepped up their campaign against the Kremlin critic with new detentions of his associates.
A Russian court has fined several of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty's Russian-language projects and its general director a total of 1.1 million rubles ($14,500) for failing to comply with new restrictions under the country’s "foreign agent" law.
Russia has approved an extension of the New START nuclear arms control treaty as Moscow and Washington look to save the last major pact of its kind.
A U.S. intelligence analyst has been sentenced to more than 11 years in prison for kidnapping and stealing national-security materials with the intent of selling them to Russia.
Media reports quoted Russian government officials and associates of the politician as saying that Sergei Prikhodko, who was also the former chief of the government administration, died of an unspecified illness.
Angry protests over widespread corruption and the arrest of opposition leader Aleksei Navalny swept across Russia on January 23. What brought so many more people onto the streets compared to lots of previous protests, despite Kremlin threats and a forceful crackdown?
Thousands of Russians were detained across the country amid protests calling for the release of opposition leader Aleksei Navalny, with riot police cracking down violently on what were Russia's biggest anti-government demonstrations in years.
Police clashed violently with protesters in Moscow on January 23, beating back crowds and detaining demonstrators. More than 2,100 people are reported to have been detained by police at rallies across Russia demanding the release of Kremlin critic Aleksei Navalny.
Russian riot police cracked down hard on some of the biggest anti-government protests in years, detaining thousands of demonstrators calling for Aleksei Navalny's release at nationwide rallies that raised the stakes in the jailed opposition leader's showdown with President Vladimir Putin.
Videos supporting jailed Russian opposition leader Aleksei Navalny are receiving millions of views on TikTok, while other social media platforms are also seeing a strong uptick in pro-Navalny content, including posts by popular celebrities.
Russian officials are showing no signs of letting up in efforts to preempt planned nationwide street protests this weekend in support of Aleksei Navaln.
Lyubov Sobol, a lawyer for Russian opposition politician Aleksei Navalny, has been detained by police on a charge of calling for an unsanctioned rally in relation to a planned nationwide protest on January 23 in support of the jailed Kremlin critic.
Russia's Rosatom atomic energy agency plans to put up two statues of Soviet dictator Josef Stalin's notorious secret police chief Lavrenty Beria.
A police officer in the Russian city of Samara has been placed under house arrest on suspicion of leaking data that may have helped the Bellingcat investigative group identify the alleged poisoners of Kremlin critic Aleksei Navalny, the RBC business daily reports, citing its sources.
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