How do you live when Vladimir Putin wants you dead? That’s the dilemma facing Christo Grozev, a man often described as a “rock star investigative journalist.” The story of how he became persona non grata — песона нон грата, if you prefer – with the Kremlin is told in the documentary Antidote, directed by James…
Russians mourn Navalny, one of Putin’s biggest critics, on anniversary of his death Alexei Navalny was a starch opponent of Russian President Vladimir Putin, orchestrating some of the biggest anti-Kremlin protests in the country before his death in a Siberian prison at the age of 47, the circumstances of which remain disputed. Source link
The stunning news came in a terse statement from the Russian penitentiary service a year ago: Opposition leader Alexei Navalny had died in the Arctic Circle penal colony where he was serving a prison sentence. A year after Navalny’s death, the Russian opposition struggles without its charismatic leader In the year since the death of…
Six months after the opposition leader Aleksei A. Navalny died in a Russian prison above the Arctic Circle, Konstantin A. Kotov woke up to find his Moscow apartment under siege. After breaking down the door, Russian officers set about confiscating everything to do with Mr. Navalny, down to a campaign button from the activist’s 2018…
A Russian court on Friday sentenced three lawyers for the late opposition leader Aleksei A. Navalny to as much as five and a half years in prison for passing on correspondence from him to his allies, a clear reminder of how the Kremlin is still pursuing his associates even after his death. The three lawyers…