The record-holding world chess champion, who lives in New York and is included on the Putin government’s list of ‘terrorists and extremists,’ maintains that the war must follow a ‘strategy that consists of Ukraine winning and Russia losing’
The purge in the Russian Ministry of Defense would have satisfied the Kremlin’s two fiercest critics, Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin and opposition leader Alexei Navalny
Three reporters have been arrested in three days, accused of discrediting the Russian army and association with the organization of deceased dissident Alexei Navalny
Josep Borrell, EU foreign policy chief, said the sanctions show ‘our determination to hold Russia’s political leadership and authorities to account for the continuing violation of the human rights’
The partial count confirms the president’s resounding victory in a vote where he faced no real opposition. The leader also admitted for the first time that, before his death, there were plans to swap Alexei Navalny for a Russian prisoner held in Germany
The president’s three supposed rivals all support the Kremlin and the vote, which will be held from Friday to Sunday without international observers, uses an opaque electronic system
Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania have been warning for years about Moscow’s attempts to destabilize these nations and persecute Russian citizens on their territory
An assailant attacked Leonid Volkov on Tuesday as he arrived in a car at his Vilnius home, where he lives in exile. The attacker smashed one of his car’s windows, sprayed tear gas into his eyes and hit him with a hammer
The number of prosecutions grew rapidly after Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022 and public criticism of the war was outlawed
Russia places the former world chess champion on its list of terrorists and extremists, more than 10 years after moving to New York when targeted by the Russian president for his political dissension
Thousands bid farewell to Navalny on Friday after his still-unexplained death two weeks ago in an Arctic penal colony. The crowds chanted slogans against Russian President Vladimir Putin and the war in Ukraine
Western diplomats, including U.S. Ambassador Lynn Tracy, were among those who attended, along with presidential hopefuls Boris Nadezhdin and Yekaterina Duntsova
Earlier this week French President Emmanuel Macron said that the future deployment of Western ground troops to Ukraine should not be ‘ruled out’
Navalny’s widow, Yulia Navalnaya, speaking at the European Parliament, expressed fears that the police might interfere. ‘I’m not sure yet whether it will be peaceful or whether police will arrest those who have come to say goodbye to my husband,’ she said
Alexei Navalny and two U.S. citizens held in Russia were supposed to be swapped for Vadim Krasikov, who was serving a life sentence in Germany, according to his ally
The EU High Representative for Foreign Policy calls on member states to increase and accelerate aid to Ukraine
The United States will impose the largest single tranche of penalties since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The European Union’s sanctions will target companies and Russian officials and businessmen
Yulia Navalnaya has shown a heroism that transcends the ages by tracing the moral trajectory of Alexei Navalny, an unbreakable man who represented the dream longed for by young Russians
Speaking in a video statement from the Arctic city of Salekhard, Lyudmila Navalnaya said investigators have allowed her to see her son’s body in the city morgue
Russia’s President Vladimir Putin’s 30-minute flight in a supersonic strategic bomber seemed intended to send a reminder of Russia’s nuclear might amid soaring tensions with the West over the fighting in Ukraine
President Joe Biden was speaking to donors at a private San Francisco home. The Kremlin said Biden ‘behaves in the Hollywood cowboy style to serve internal political interests’
Yulia Navalnaya’s announcement that she will continue her husband’s fight has sparked a degree of hope in some dissidents, despite the fact that the Kremlin’s threats will prevent her from doing politics in Russia
Alexei, Boris Nemtsov and I have dedicated our lives to making Russia a free and happy country. Today they are both dead and I feel a black emptiness, but I will continue fighting against tyranny
The Republican candidate is taking advantage of the Russian dissident’s death to claim again that he is the target of political persecution, making no mention of Vladimir Putin
Many of those killed while fighting Moscow’s authoritarianism had lived abroad, where they soaked up the democratic values they then tried to introduce to Russia
National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said that the new package would be unveiled this Friday. U.S. and its allies have put stiff sanctions on Russia in retaliation for its invasion of Ukraine
Lyudmila Navalnaya, who has been trying to get his body since Saturday, appeared in a video outside the Arctic penal colony where Navalny died on Friday