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As Russias State Media Deflects Alexei Navalny Protests, Voice of America Amplifies Them Newsweek 1/26/2021 Brendan Cole © Mikhail Svetlov/Getty Images Russian policemen arrest a protester on January 23, 2021 in Moscow, Russia. Kremlin mouthpieces and Russias Washington-backed media spun competing narratives of what was behind the countrys biggest protests for years. Voice of America, which is funded by the U.S. government, and helps to produce the Russian-language Current...

Russians Buy Disabled Man Apartment After His Squalid Living Conditions Revealed January 26, 2021 15:43 GMT width No media source currently available 0:00 0:03:23 0:00 People have raised nearly $27,000 to buy a new apartment for a disabled man in the northern Russian city of Arkhangelsk after a Current Time report showed the squalid housing conditions in which he was living. Police have opened a criminal case against the company that manages Artyom Arkhipovs home. Share

Whats Different About The Latest Protests Across Russia? width No media source currently available 0:00 0:03:40 0:00 Angry protests over widespread corruption and the arrest of opposition leader Aleksei Navalny swept across Russia on January 23. What brought so many more people onto the streets compared to lots of previous protests, despite Kremlin threats and a forceful crackdown? Observers also saw more violence directed against police than most protests in the past. Analysts interviewed by C...

share Print TikTok is flooded with messages of support for Aleksei Navalny. Pop stars and influencers are speaking out in his defense. And allies of the Russian opposition leader are using seemingly any platform imaginable to promote a singular cause: street demonstrations calling for his release from jail. But the flurry of political activity, slammed by the Kremlin as incitement of illegal rallies, has prompted a sweeping counteroffensive from the state ahead of the rallies planned for Januar...

Russian officials have stepped up their campaign against jailed Kremlin critic Aleksei Navalny, rounding up his associates and warning social media and n

As Protests Near, Russian Officials Show No Signs Of Easing Up On Navalny, Associates January 22, 2021 07:28 GMT Updated January 22, 2021 19:31 GMT Share share Print Russian officials are showing no signs of letting up in efforts to preempt planned nationwide street protests this weekend in support of Aleksei Navalny, vowing to “immediately suppress” any unsanctioned events and threatening jail time for demonstrators after rounding up several of the Kremlin critic’s allies for calling peo...

on social media Forensic experts have confirmed the authenticity of a voice recording implicating a former Belarusian KGB chief in a journalist’s murder, Current Time TV, a Russian-language publication in Prague, reported on Jan. 19. The recording was published on Jan. 4 by Brussels-based publication EUobserver and the Belarusian People’s Tribunal, an opposition group run by exiled Belarusian police official Igor Makar. This article is available to subscribers and registered rea...

The detention of Russian opposition politician Aleksei Navalny upon arrival in Moscow from Germany has drawn a wave of international criticism.

The detention of Russian opposition politician Aleksei Navalny by law enforcement as he arrived in Moscow following his return from Germany after recovering from being poisoned has sparked immediate outrage and criticism of the Kremlin.

share At the end of last year, Russia adopted a number of new legal measures that many observers say are intended to further restrict the countrys already state-dominated media sphere. Among other things, the government has begun placing individuals on its list of "foreign-agent" media, subjecting them to potential fines or prison sentences. The government has also criminalized online defamation. Russias state media monitor, Roskomnadzor, this week drew up its first eight administrative prot...