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"Putin is doing this to scare you ... pay their last respects at the coffin of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny in Moscow last March (AP) Ms Navalnaya herself is on the list, which ...

Three lawyers for the late opposition leader Alexei Navalny were found guilty by a Russian court on Friday of participating in an "extremist organisation" and sentenced to years in jail.

The top lawyer of late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who died in a Russian prison ... His allies and family say he was murdered on President Vladimir Putin's orders. Navalny himself ...

Igor Sergunin, Alexei Liptser and Vadim Kobzev were tried ... prisoners” who “must be released immediately.” Navalny, Putin’s most formidable opponent, was imprisoned upon his return ...

Navalny died suddenly last February in ... and Russian investigators say he died of natural causes. "Putin is afraid of Alexei even after he killed him," Navalnaya wrote on Telegram.

Three lawyers who represented the late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny have been sentenced to years in a Russian penal colony, as part of Vladimir Putin’s crackdown on dissent that has ...

A request to remove late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny from a list of “terrorists and extremists” has been rejected despite his death last year, his widow Yulia Navalnaya has revealed – ...

Nearly a year has passed since Mr Navalny, Russia’s most ... she said. "Why does Putin need this? Obviously, not to prohibit Alexei from opening bank accounts. This is no longer possible ...