Russian investigators on Thursday raided dozens of regional offices of top protest leader Alexei Navalny, as well as the homes of his supporters, after mass opposition rallies this summer. Navalny said the raids were the result of Kremlin "hysteria" after allies of President Vladimir Putin ...
Kremlin suffers losses in Moscow city vote after protests over opposition exclusion
Pro-Kremlin candidates suffered major losses in a Moscow city election, results showed Monday, following a police crackdown on a wave of anti-government protests over the summer. But President Vladimir Putin's spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, played down the losses, pointing to other local and regional elections across ...
Putin's United Russia party braces for verdict of angry voters in polls
What was supposed to be a sleepy round of off-cycle regional elections Sunday has turned into a referendum on President Vladimir Putin and his ruling United Russia party. Initial results in a few races for governor appeared to show good news for the Kremlin even ...
After a summer of protests, Russians vote in local elections
Russians voted Sunday in local elections after weeks of opposition protests that led to the biggest police crackdown on dissent in nearly a decade. The elections took place a day after Moscow and Kiev carried out a long-awaited swap of 70 prisoners, a deal hailed ...
Russian opposition plans fresh protest over weekend, despite threat of more mass arrests
Russia's anti-Kremlin opposition said it was planning a nationwide protest next weekend despite police forcibly detaining over 1,000 people on Saturday for attending what they said was an illegal march in Moscow to demand free elections. Saturday's protest, conceived by opposition activists as a peaceful ...
Kremlin foe's doctor skeptical after Alexei Navalny tests negative for poison at state hospital
A Russian state hospital said on Wednesday that opposition leader Alexei Navalny had tested negative for poison after falling ill in custody, but his personal doctor warned the findings were inconclusive and could be wrong. Navalny, who was jailed for 30 days last week for ...
Russia opposition figure Alexei Navalny hospitalized, and may have been poisoned, says doctor
Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was hospitalized on Sunday after suffering an acute allergic reaction that one doctor said may have been the result of him being poisoned with an unknown chemical substance. Navalny, 43, was rushed to a hospital on Sunday morning from jail ...
Russia detains more than 1,000 people in opposition crackdown
Russian police rounded up more than 1,000 people in Moscow on Saturday in one of the biggest crackdowns of recent times against an increasingly defiant opposition decrying President Vladimir Putin's tight grip on power. The detentions came around a protest to demand that opposition members ...
Hundreds rally in Moscow to decry state abuse of investigative journalist
Several hundred protesters gathered in Moscow on Sunday in a small, government-authorized rally supporting investigative journalist Ivan Golunov and decrying abuse of power over his five-day arrest this month on drug charges. The 36-year-old reporter, known for exposing corruption among Moscow officials, was freed following ...
Russian police detain at least 94 at Moscow journalist protest
Russian police detained at least 94 people on Wednesday, including opposition politician Alexei Navalny, at a protest in Moscow calling for punishment for police officers involved in the alleged framing of a journalist, monitors said. Police abruptly dropped drugs charges a day earlier against journalist ...
Russians march in memory of assassinated Kremlin critic Boris Nemtsov
Several thousand Russians took part in a march in memory of Kremlin critic Boris Nemtsov on Sunday, four years after he was gunned down in the Russian capital. Ordinary Muscovites and prominent opposition figures, including politician Alexei Navalny, marched through the center of the city. Many ...
