ALEXEI NAVALNY

A closely watched study by an anti-graft organization has found that most of the world continues to fail to fight corruption, with 95% of countries having made little to no progress since 2017.

Russia's leading opposition figure survived an assassination attempt in 2020, but supporters say the Kremlin is now trying to kill him by brutal treatment in jail.

Exactly two years after he was arrested upon returning to Russia, convicted on fictitious charges in a trial whose outcome was never in doubt and shipped off to serve an 11-year sentence in a brutal penal colony, dissident politician Alexei Navalny has managed a feat that is rare for Kremlin opponents: He is surviving.

Alexei Navalny says he has been denied access to hospital treatment by Russian prison officials.

Russia's budget ended 2022 in a large hole, a sharp contrast with a 2021 surplus, as the country faced spiking military expenses and pressure from Western sanctions.

Ukraine suggested that the United Nations mediate the talks, but said it would not directly engage with Russia until Moscow faces a war-crimes tribunal.

Navalny returned to Russia in early 2021 after a sojourn in Germany, where he recuperated from an attempt by the Kremlin to poison him the previous August.

Imprisoned Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has been transferred to a one-man cell, according to a post on his social media account.

Kremlin-connected businessman Yevgeny Prigozhin kept a low profile over the years, but he has been increasingly in the spotlight recently.

Her transfer to a penal colony — as prisons in Russia are commonly known — can take days or even weeks. During that time lawyers and loved ones usually don't have contact with the prisoner. Even after she arrives, access to Griner may be difficult since many penal colonies are in remote parts of Russia.

President Joe Biden says he hopes Russian President Vladimir Putin will be more willing to negotiate the release of WNBA star Brittney Griner now that the U.S. midterm elections are over.

President Joe Biden said Wednesday that he hopes Russian President Vladimir Putin will be more willing to negotiate the release of WNBA star Brittney Griner now that the U.S. midterm elections are over. “My hope is that now that the election is over, that Mr. Putin will be able to discuss with us and be willing to talk more seriously about a prisoner exchange,” Biden told reporters at a news conference.

Russian TV personality Ksenia Sobchak — the glamorous daughter of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s onetime boss — has arrived in Lithuania on an Israeli passport after fleeing Russian investigators who raided her home this week.

Russia’s most prominent opposition leader, Alexei Navalny, lost another court battle in his effort to push back against the Kremlin’s widening crackdown on him and other dissenters.

Russian investigators have raided the home of Ksenia Sobchak, the glamourous daughter of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s one-time boss, in a move that has sent shockwaves through the country’s political scene.

A court in Russia has rejected imprisoned opposition leader Alexei Navalny’s second appeal of a nine-year sentence.

Ukrainian entries are dominating the shortlist to win to European Union’s top human rights prize.

Officials in Europe praised the awarding of this year’s Nobel Peace Prize to activists standing up for human rights and democracy in Russia, Belarus and Ukraine, but authorities in Belarus are scorning the move.

Activists in China and Russia, the International Court of Justice and an Indian advocate of interfaith cooperation have been mentioned as frontrunners.

His baldly illegitimate claim to four Ukrainian provinces shows contempt for the global order—and his own subjects.

Russian police have moved quickly to disperse peaceful protests against President Vladimir Putin’s military mobilization order.

Protests erupted in 38 cities across Russia following Putin's mobilization announcement.

Russian opposition politician Ilya Yashin may be in jail, but he refuses to be silenced.

On the second anniversary of the poison attack on Alexei Navalny, Germany and the United States have hailed the determination of the Kremlin critic who is imprisoned in Russia.

Imprisoned Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny says prison officials ordered him to serve at least three days in solitary confinement, citing a minor infraction, in retaliation for his activism behind bars.

A new round of U.S. sanctions targeting Russian elites includes a woman named in news reports as Vladimir Putin’s longtime romantic partner.

Nepali officials have denied a summit certificate to Russian mountaineer Katya Lipka, who flew a Ukrainian flag on Mount Everest

A Russian court has sentenced a top opposition figure to four years in prison, the latest move in the Kremlin’s crackdown on opposition activists, independent media and rights groups.

A court in Russia has ruled to remand a prominent opposition politician in custody pending an investigation and trial over his public criticism of Russia’s military actions in Ukraine.

When Brittney Griner pleaded guilty to drug possession in a Russian court, hopes rose that her months of detention may soon be over, either through a U.S.-Russia prisoner swap or a pardon from President Vladimir Putin.

On more than 30 separate occasions, the United States government has imposed sanctions on Russia for invading Ukraine. Its economy has not yet given way under the strain, but the question remains how long ordinary Russians will be willing to withstand the resulting economic privation.

A Russian court has rejected an appeal by imprisoned opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who contended that prison authorities illegally prevented his lawyers from bringing necessary equipment including voice recorders and laptop computers to a court session held in a prison.

During a rally with former President Donald Trump, Illinois Rep. Mary Miller called the overturning of Roe v. Wade a "victory for white life."

The jailed opposition leader was recently sentenced to an additional nine years behind bars.

A chilling announcement greeted the attorney for Alexei Navalny when he tried to visit the imprisoned Kremlin foe on Tuesday at Pokrov, or IK-2, a penal colony about two and a half hours east of Moscow.

Allies of imprisoned opposition politician Alexei Navalny say the Kremlin critic is missing from the prison where he has been serving his time

Allies of imprisoned opposition politician Alexei Navalny sounded the alarm when they discovered he was no longer in the prison where he had been serving his time and there was no word on his whereabouts.

Russia’s opposition leader Alexei Navalny says he is facing new accusations that could extend his current nine-year prison term.

A Russian court has rejected opposition leader Alexei Navalny's appeal of a nine-year prison sentence for fraud.

This week’s new entertainment releases include a new album from Def Leppard, a five-part Apple+ series on dinosaurs and a documentary about the late composer Stephen Sondheim and his musical “Company.”.

Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny’s team has been meeting with senators on Capitol Hill.

"The people in the political and economic elite have seen their lifestyles turned upside down, their fortunes decimated," a top aide to Navalny said.

French President Emmanuel Macron is visiting a multicultural, working-class suburb north of Paris to woo leftist voters ahead of Sunday's presidential runoff against far-right challenger Marine Le Pen.

Daniel Roher's film about Russian dissident Alexei Navalny offers intimate, sometimes amazing access to the bravery — and human cost — of opposing a despot.

Imprisoned Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny waded into France’s tight presidential campaign, urging voters to back incumbent Emmanuel Macron in Sunday's runoff and alleging that far-right challenger Marine Le Pen is too closely linked to Russia.

Navalny said he wasn't sure whether Ilya Navalny, the 60-year-old deceased Ukrainian man who was killed, was a relative.

The war in Ukraine has rapidly recast “Navalny,” a fly-on-the-wall portrait of the imprisoned Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny.

This week’s new entertainment releases include a new album from Bonnie Raitt, Bob Odenkirk starts the long farewell season of “Better Call Saul” and “The Batman,” the biggest box-office hit so far this year, lands Monday on HBO Max.

Ukraine says it is investigating a claim that a poisonous substance was dropped on the besieged city of Mariupol.

The Biden administration has newly targeted Vladimir Putin’s adult daughters in the sanctions over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

Apple removed the opposition app last September under threat from the Russian government.

New restrictions placed on journalists in Russia have impeded but not muzzled reporting about the country and its war in Ukraine.

American and Italian authorities are currently investigating the matter as pressure grows to seize assets linked to the Kremlin.

American and Italian authorities are currently investigating the matter as pressure grows to seize assets linked to the Kremlin.

GettyBritain’s latest round of sanctions against Russia has gone above and beyond simple financial punishment, airing a bit of Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov’s dirty laundry in the process.In its list of the 65 new individuals and organizations targeted for “aiding Russia’s invasion of Ukraine,” the British Foreign Office appears to have made a point to call out Lavrov’s “secret family” in London, with its inclusion of Polina Kovalev, whom it describes as his stepdaughter.Kovalev’s inclu

Oksana Baulina, 42, a reporter for The Insider, was on assignment in Ukraine filming the destruction of Russian shelling in Kyiv.

Oksana Baulina died while filming the destruction from Russian shelling of a district within the Ukrainian capital, the Insider, an independent Russian news site, confirmed Wednesday, leading to an outpouring from other journalists who spoke of Baulina’s persistence and selflessness.

Russia has unleashed a harsh crackdown on dissent over the past year by imprisoning opposition leader Alexei Navalny and silencing his supporters and his organization.

A roundup of key developments and the latest in-depth coverage of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

The Russian opposition leader can appeal the ruling.

The Russian opposition leader can appeal the ruling.

Navalny, who is already serving a 2.5-year sentence for parole violations, was sentenced to an additional nine years in a high-security prison. He has vowed to keep fighting.

A Russian court has convicted top opposition leader Alexei Navalny of fraud and contempt of court, sentencing him to nine more years in prison in a move seen as an attempt to keep him behind bars for as long as possible.

Prosecutors want 13 years added to the two-and-a-half year term Vladimir Putin's most vocal critic is already serving.

The Russian authorities are seeking a 13-year prison sentence for opposition leader Alexei Navalny in a trial that is widely seen as politically motivated.

The Russian authorities are seeking a 13-year prison sentence for opposition leader Alexei Navalny in a trial Kremlin critics see as an attempt to keep President Vladimir Putin's most ardent foe in prison for as long as possible. Navalny, who is already serving 2 1/2 years in a penal colony east of Moscow, has been charged with fraud and contempt of court. Navalny has rejected the allegations as politically motivated.

Google and Apple blinked after threats from Russian agents.

As of Sunday, an independent monitoring group reports over 4,500 were detained across 63 cities, including Moscow and St. Petersburg.

Russia's Defense Ministry reported Wednesday that 497 Russian troops had been killed and 1,597 had been injured to date since Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered an invasion of Ukraine last Thursday.

A rights group says more than 1,000 have been arrested in protests, as Putin’s attacks on Ukraine spark outpouring of anger and shame from thousands.

A new trial against Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has opened at the penal colony where he already is serving a prison term.

The prison sentence imposed a year ago on leading Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny was a severe blow to Russia’s opposition.

A drama about an undocumented nanny in New York City, a documentary about three exiled dissidents from Tiananmen Square and another doc about Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny have won top prizes at the Sundance Film Festival.

Angry mobs in eastern India set fire to train carriages in clashes with police over access to railway jobs. Bihar state has been on edge since the start of the week over claims by young job applicants that an entrance exam for the government-run rail sector was being conducted unfairly.

Hours after Russian authorities officially added Alexei Navalny to the country’s registry of terrorists and extremists, a new documentary about the imprisoned opposition leader premiered at the Sundance Film Festival.

Navalny and eight of his allies — including top aides Lyubov Sobol and Georgy Alburov — were on Tuesday added to the registry by Russia's Federal Financial Monitoring Service.

Russian authorities have added imprisoned opposition leader Alexei Navalny and some of his top allies to the registry of terrorists and extremists, the latest move in a multi-pronged crackdown on opposition supporters, independent media and human rights activists.

"In Russia we're all tired of rolling our eyes," Navalny said, urging Biden to hit Putin where it hurts by targeting the Russian president's wealth.

Russia’s highest court has shut down one of the country’s oldest and most prominent human rights organizations.

Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/GettyMOSCOW—It’s easy to see why President Vladimir Putin might have thought ratcheting up tensions on Ukraine’s border and blaming it all on NATO and the U.S. would rally his faltering support back home, but this time something different is happening.Most Russians aren’t buying it.Domestic propaganda levels have reached near-hysteria this year after anti-Putin protests swept the country following the attempted murder and imprisonment of oppo

The young adult daughter of imprisoned Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny received a standing ovation from European Union lawmakers as she accepted the EU’s top human rights prize on her father’s behalf.

In a clear slap at the Russian leader, the European Union on Wednesday said it was awarding the Sakharov Prize to jailed dissident and Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny.

Imprisoned Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has been awarded the European Union’s top human rights prize, in a clear slap at President Vladimir Putin.

Imprisoned Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, whom many regarded as a top candidate for the Nobel Peace Prize, is congratulating countryman Dmitry Muratov for winning it.

The annual Nobel Peace Prize, to be announced Oct. 8, shines the brightest of lights on the person or group thought to have done most to promote peace.

A group of politicians and activists who lost to their Kremlin-backed opponents in Russia’s parliamentary election have formed a coalition to contest the results from online voting in the Russian capital.

Election authorities announced Russia’s ruling party will get 324 of the 450 seats in the next national parliament.

A military training jet crashed in a neighborhood near Fort Worth, Texas, injuring the two pilots and damaging three homes. (Sept. 20)

Russia's ruling party, United Russia, appears to have retained its majority in State Duma elections at the weekend.

Russia’s ruling party has retained its supermajority in parliament following three days of voting, further cementing President Vladimir Putin’s grip on power.

The head of Russia's Communist Party, the country's second-largest political party, is alleging widespread violations in the election for a new national parliament in which his party is widely expected to gain seats.

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Facing pressure from the Kremlin, Apple and Google removed an opposition-created smartphone app that tells voters which candidates are likely to defeat those backed by Russian authorities.

Russian Foreign Ministry/TASS/GettyRussian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has reportedly bankrolled his mistress’s travel abroad with him on official diplomatic trips to almost two dozen countries around the world, according to a new bombshell report from Russian opposition activist Alexei Navalny’s team. The report, entitled “Yachts, bribes and a mistress. What Minister Lavrov is hiding,” details a plethora of luxury digs and yachts enjoyed by the couple, including a yacht owned by the notoriou

Russia has begun three days of voting for a new parliament that is unlikely to change the country’s political complexion.

Navalny projects supreme confidence that Putin’s authoritarian rule won’t last. Is it denial, theater or truth? Maybe some of each.

The order appears to be the latest effort by the Russian government to silence the imprisoned Alexei Navalny.

The German chancellor previously blamed Russia for the near-fatal poisoning of Alexei Navalny, who is in a maximum security prison near Moscow.

Authorities responded with mass arrests of demonstrators and criminal prosecutions of Navalny’s closest associates.

Their discussions primarily focused on cybersecurity, regional conflicts and diplomatic relations.