World Jun 10, 2021
Court outlaws Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny's network in pre-election knockout
The ruling delivers a final blow to a vast political network that Navalny built up over many years to try to challenge Putin's grip on power.
World / Crime & Legal May 22, 2021
How Russia's new gulag tries to break convicts like Alexei Navalny
by Polina Nikolskaya, Anton Zverev and Andrew Osborn
Six former inmates and a former prisons inspector spoke of regular beatings by guards, sexual assaults and severe psychological pressure at a facility near Moscow.
World Apr 30, 2021
Alexei Navalny’s network crumbling under Kremlin pressure
by Anton Troianovski
The move seems likely to push resistance to Putin further underground as the Kremlin’s yearslong effort to suppress dissent enters a more aggressive phase.
Commentary / World Apr 28, 2021
The Cold War playbook won’t help Alexei Navalny
by Hal Brands
That Navalny ended his hunger strike and his life isn’t in imminent danger — for now — doesn't remove the underlying issue.
World / Politics Apr 24, 2021
After testing the world’s limits, Putin steps back from the brink
by Anton Troianovski
The Russian president went up to the brink — and then, with the eyes of the world upon him, stepped back from it. State television images on Friday showed Russian forces that had amassed near Ukraine — sparking fears of an imminent full-scale war in ...
World / Crime & Legal Apr 24, 2021
Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny said Friday he was ending a 24-day hunger strike he launched to demand medical treatment behind bars, after allies said his life was in danger. The announcement came after Navalny's personal doctors said Thursday that he had received treatment at a ...
World Apr 21, 2021
Doctors denied access to 'very weak' Kremlin foe Alexei Navalny
A team of medics has been trying to see the 44-year-old Navalny since early this month, after he began refusing food on March 31.
World Apr 20, 2021
Under Western pressure, Russia moves Alexei Navalny to prison hospital
Russia's prison service insisted the anti-corruption campaigner's condition was "satisfactory," and said he was taking vitamin supplements as part of medical treatment.
World Apr 18, 2021
Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny could 'die any minute,' doctors say
Navalny risks cardiac arrest as his health has rapidly deteriorated, doctors warned, urging immediate access to Russia's most famous prisoner.
World Apr 11, 2021
Russian troop movements and talk of intervention cause jitters in Ukraine
by Andrew E. Kramer
Russia has amassed more troops on the Ukrainian border than at any time since 2014. Western governments are asking: Why now?
Commentary / World Apr 7, 2021
by Nina L. Khrushcheva
Judges have probably done as much as any band of revolutionaries to disrupt political systems — in the process often undermining, rather than advancing, the cause of justice.
World Mar 16, 2021
Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny says he's in a 'concentration camp'
Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny, who is serving a two-and-half-year jail term in a penal colony outside Moscow, said Monday he was locked up in a "real concentration camp." His comments were the first confirmation of widespread reports that the Russian opposition politician would be spending ...