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Yulia Navalnaya, the wife of Russian dissident and critic Alexei Navalny, Wednesday pleaded with Russian prison officials to provide her husband with necessary cold medicine. Navalny told Navalnaya in a letter from prison that he recently caught a cold while serving out a Russian prison sentence on alleged parole violations, fraud and contempt of court. [...]

Bulgaria’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs Thursday summoned the Russian Ambassador to Bulgaria, Eleonora Mitrofanova, to protest investigative journalist Christo Grozevon’s inclusion on the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs’ wanted list. Grozev is the Executive Director of Bellingcat, a Netherlands-based investigative journalism group which specializes in professional and citizen reporting on human rights abuses. It is [...]

Russian dissident and critic Alexei Navalny Monday announced that he has been suffering from worsening back pain due to the conditions of his solitary confinement. Navalny has been intermittently held in a “punishment cell” in a Russian prison for the last three months serving his sentence for alleged crimes of parole violations, fraud and contempt [...]

Russian dissident and critic Alexei Navalny Thursday announced that the Investigative Committee of Russia opened a new criminal case against him. The committee alleges Navalny promoted and called for terrorism, publicly called for extremism, financed extremist activities and rehabilitated Nazism. Navalny is currently serving out a nine-year sentence for parole violations, fraud and contempt of [...]

Alexei Navalny, a jailed Russian opposition politician, Tuesday said he has been placed in solitary confinement for the third time this month. Navalny is a vocal critic of President Vladimir Putin, has organised anti-government demonstrations and founded the Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK). Navalny has been detained and placed on house arrest on several occasions due to [...]

Russian police Monday charged independent Russian journalist Andrey Zayakin with financing extremist activity for a small dollar donation Zayakin made to Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK), a foundation started by Russian dissident and critic Alexei Navalny. Zayakin faces up to eight years prison for donating 1,000 rubles ($16) to FBK. Zayakin is a reporter for Novaya Gazeta, [...]

Russia’s Basmanny District Court of Moscow Wednesday arrested opposition politician Ilya Yashin over allegations that Yashin willfully spread misinformation about Russia’s military, a charge Yashin denies and human rights organizations call politically motivated. Yashin faces up to 10 years in prison if convicted and will be kept in detention for two months while he awaits [...]

Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny Tuesday said he faces new criminal charges and a potential for fifteen additional years in Russian prison if found guilty. Navalny is already serving a nine-year sentence after a Moscow court found him guilty of fraud and contempt in March. Navalny, a longtime critic of President Vladimir Putin, wrote on [...]

Russia’s Justice Ministry Friday designated popular activist Vladimir Kara-Murza as a “foreign agent,” which means he will have to file elaborate financial disclosures and add a disclaimer to all his public messages on social media or otherwise. Kara-Murza, 40, is a prominent Russian dissident, political activist, writer, and democrat spokesperson. He has been lauded abroad [...]

A Moscow district court Thursday ruled that Google must pay 7.2 million rubles (approximately $86,394) in fines for distributing content outlawed in Russia. The decision by Judge Timur Vakhrameev found Google guilty under Article 13.41 of Russia’s Administrative Code which penalizes the failure to delete information deemed illegal by the legislation of the Russian Federation. [...]