The exchange concerns 26 people from seven countries, said the office of the President of Turkey, which mediates the event, according to Reuters. The US will take three prisoners, Germany 13 more and Russia ten. According to Ankara, Belarus, Poland, Slovenia and Norway were also involved in the exchange. “We negotiated the release of a … Read more
Russian authorities on Thursday added the widow of late opposition leader Alexei Navalny to a list of “terrorists and extremists,” continuing the Kremlin’s sweeping crackdown on the opposition. Earlier this week, a Moscow court ordered the detention of Yulia Navalnaya, who lives abroad, on charges of allegedly participating in an extremist group. The ruling means … Read more
“Many people wonder why Alexei fought so hard and never gave up. Because of you. Because of the wonderful, brave and honest people who are now standing in an endless line to say goodbye to him. Thank you. That is the true love of the people,” wrote Navalná. She added shots of the queue of … Read more
The body of Russian dissident Alexei Navalny, who died last week in the prison colony where he was held, has been handed over to his mother, his representative Kira Jarmis wrote on Platform X today. She said she does not know if the authorities will allow a funeral to be held “in the way the … Read more
Anna Colleen Lebedev is a Russian-French professor of Political Science at the University of Nanterre, specializing in post-Soviet societies. Entering, last Friday, on social networks, she saw two different worlds in her feed. On the one hand, her Russian friends, stunned, bewildered, devastated by the news of Alexei Navalny’s death in the polar penal colony … Read more
“Lyosha, thank you for 26 years of absolute happiness. Yes, even for the last three years of luck. For love, for always supporting me, for making me laugh even from prison, for always thinking of me. I don’t know how to live without you, but I will try to make you happy and proud of … Read more
“They ban anything that deviates from the main propaganda agenda. In times of war, the state tries to create the illusion of unity, the unification of the entire nation around the idea of war, around Putin, around traditional values,” human rights activist Sergej Davidis commented to Rádio Svoboda. “And the grief for the main opponent, … Read more
The Levada Center is a respected, independent research institute, the regime labeled it a “foreign agent” – similar to the majority of entities and persons independent of the regime. If anyone can do credible, as objective as possible public opinion polls in Russia, it is Levada. Gudkov has been at its head since the death … Read more
Britain today imposed sanctions on six people from the management of the penal colony where Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny died on Friday. London condemned the inhumane conditions in which Navalny was imprisoned in an announcement of an asset freeze and an entry ban. London is demanding that Russian authorities hand over his body to … Read more
