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Foreign lab tests prove late Russian Oppn leader Alexei Navalny was poisoned, his wife claims

September 17, 2025 4:20 pm

In a video posted on X, Navalnaya said biological samples smuggled out of Russia last year were analysed by labs in two different countries, both of which concluded he was poisoned.

Three Navalny lawyers sentenced to years in Russian penal colony for 'extremist activity'

January 18, 2025 2:35 am

They were sentenced respectively to 3-1/2, 5 and 5-1/2 years after a trial held behind closed doors in the Vladimir region, east of Moscow.

3 lawyers for late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny jailed by Russian court

January 17, 2025 4:50 pm

According to Navalny's allies, authorities accused the lawyers of using their position to pass information from him to his team.

Russia puts lawyers of late opposition leader Alexei Navalny on trial

September 12, 2024 10:44 pm

Navalny, an anti-corruption campaigner and outspoken critic of President Vladimir Putin, was arrested in 2021 upon returning from Germany, where he had been recovering from a nerve agent poisoning he attributed to the Kremlin.

Russia prisoner swap | Ilya Yashin: Prominent Russian opposition leader and Kremlic critic released

August 01, 2024 9:55 pm

Prior to his sentencing, Yashin addressed President Putin directly, calling for an immediate cessation of hostilities in Ukraine

Russian court orders arrest of opposition leader Navalny's widow, who lives abroad

July 09, 2024 11:02 pm

Moscow’s Basmanny District Court ruled to arrest Yulia Navalnaya, who lives abroad, on charges of alleged involvement in an extremist group.

Yulia Navalnaya, the widow of Alexei Navalny, takes part in a meeting of EU foreign ministers in Brussels

Yulia Navalnaya receives DW's Freedom of Speech Award

June 06, 2024 5:07 pm

Yulia Navalnaya said in Berlin that, although Vladimir Putin killed her husband, "he didn't silence him and his ideas." She said Alexei Navalny showed that "truth makes even an all-powerful dictator tremble with fear."

Can Yulia Navalnaya unite the Russian opposition?

May 03, 2024 3:21 pm

The widow of Alexei Navalny, who died in a Russian penal colony, is carrying on her husband’s work. Can she mount a true challenge to Vladimir Putin?

US intelligence believes Putin probably didn't order Navalny to be killed: Report

April 27, 2024 4:52 pm

Alexei Navalny, 47 when he died, was Russian president Putin's fiercest domestic critic.

Russian court adds 2 more years to Navalny's associate prison term

April 10, 2024 1:28 am

The Kremlin’s crackdown against opposition activists, independent journalists and government critics has intensified after Russia sent troops into Ukraine more than two years ago.

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In photos: Supporters of Russian opposition leader Navalny gather at grave on first death anniversary

February 17, 2025 1:41 am

Navalny, a longtime critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin, died on February 16, 2023, in the Polar Wolf penal colony in Kharp, where he was serving a prison sentence.