- 17:00 20/07/2013
Convicted Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who was freed by a court on Friday pending appeal, arrived back in his home city of Moscow by train Saturday morning and announced he will run for mayor of the Russian capital in an upcoming election.
- 22:32 19/07/2013
President Vladimir Putin’s spokesman on Friday responded evasively to a question of whether convicted opposition leader and anti-corruption blogger Alexei Navalny could be pardoned.
- 19:13 19/07/2013
Blogs and social networks have become central to the ongoing anti-government protests in Russia, but according to a new poll, most Russians have either never heard of bloggers or have heard the word used but do not know what it means.
- 17:04 19/07/2013
The head of one of the world’s largest transport companies, state-owned Russian Railways, this week dismissed as unfounded corruption allegations made against him by opposition protest leader Alexei Navalny, Prime news agency reported.
- 15:34 19/07/2013
Between 156 and 254 people by various estimates were held at protest rallies in Moscow and St. Petersburg on late Thursday and Friday, triggered by the jailing of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny.
- 12:13 19/07/2013
A Russian court released opposition leader and anti-corruption blogger Alexei Navalny from custody Friday, as the five-year prison sentence handed down to him the day before will only come in force in ten days, after his appeal is heard.
- 10:22 19/07/2013
A brief look at what is in the Russian papers today
- 23:41 18/07/2013
The White House said on Thursday that it is “deeply disappointed” by the conviction and prison sentence handed down by a Russian court against opposition leader Alexei Navalny, which it called a politically motivated act aimed at silencing opponents of the regime in the Kremlin.9
- 21:04 18/07/2013
Police in Moscow blocked off a central square near the Kremlin on Thursday afternoon, yelling into loudspeakers that the area is closed, after thousands of supporters of opposition leader Alexei Navalny pledged to turn out for unsanctioned anti-Kremlin rallies.
- 20:44 18/07/2013
Prosecutors on Thursday asked a Russian court to temporarily release opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who earlier that day had been sentenced to five years in prison on embezzlement charge he denounced as politically motivated.
- 18:13 18/07/2013
At least two protesters were briefly detained Thursday outside a court in the Russian city of Kirov following the conviction of opposition leader Alexei Navalny, while thousands more of his followers promised to turn out for unsanctioned anti-Kremlin rallies later in the day.1
- 17:51 18/07/2013
Russian public figures and foreign diplomats on Thursday weighed in on the five-year jail sentence handed down to anti-Kremlin activist Alexei Navalny, with opinions ranging from grim pessimism among liberals and “disappointment” from the U.S. ambassador to mixed forecasts by economic analysts and claims of a fair trial by pro-Kremlin pundits.
- 16:04 18/07/2013
Alexei Navalny, the opposition leader and anti-corruption campaigning blogger who was handed a five-year-jail term on Thursday, is to withdraw his candidacy for the upcoming election for Moscow mayor, his campaign office said.
- 13:55 18/07/2013
Russia's stock market fell sharply on Thursday according to Moscow Exchange data, after investors took in the news that opposition blogger Alexei Navalny had been found guilty in a controversial fraud trial and sentenced to five years in jail.
- 13:31 18/07/2013
A Russian court on Thursday sentenced opposition leader Alexei Navalny, a Moscow mayoral candidate and vocal Kremlin critic, to five years' jail time on embezzlement charges.2
- 09:56 18/07/2013
A brief look at what is in the Russian papers today
- 07:11 18/07/2013
A Russian court is convening Thursday morning to announce a verdict that will decide the political career of opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who is running for mayor of Moscow.
- 02:07 18/07/2013
This week, a little-known Russian business consultant named Pyotr Ofitserov finally took his eldest daughter on a long-promised visit to Moscow’s famed Tretyakov Gallery. They squeezed in the outing between errands on Tuesday afternoon, as Thursday Ofitserov expects to be jailed for up to five years.2
- 18:17 17/07/2013
Russian anti-corruption whistle-blower Alexei Navalny, who is on trial for the embezzlement of half a million dollars of lumber, was on Wednesday officially registered as a candidate for Moscow mayor, an election authority said.
