Alexei Navalny’s network crumbling under Kremlin pressure
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.
The Cold War playbook won’t help Alexei Navalny
That Navalny ended his hunger strike and his life isn’t in imminent danger — for now — doesn't remove the underlying issue.
After testing the world’s limits, Putin steps back from the brink
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 ...
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 ...
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.
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.
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.
Russian troop movements and talk of intervention cause jitters in Ukraine
Russia has amassed more troops on the Ukrainian border than at any time since 2014. Western governments are asking: Why now?
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.
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 ...
Putin is losing the battle for Russia’s future
Since Russians began protesting opposition leader Alexei Navalny’s imprisonment, the security forces have apparently had carte blanche to arrest demonstrators — and they have done so by the thousands. If Russians so much as honk their car horns in solidarity with the protesters, they ...
Alexei Navalny's penal colony: A Kremlin weapon to 'break' him
Until last week, the provincial town of Pokrov outside Moscow, lined with Soviet-era residential blocks and teetering wooden homes, had only one claim to fame: a monument to chocolate. That changed on Sunday, when it emerged that the Kremlin's most outspoken critic, Alexei Navalny, who ...
