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news We have to protest - anti-Putin anger spreads © BBC Detained protesters in Moscow: Filip Kuznetsov is front right Filip Kuznetsov spent an entire night crammed into a police van with 17 other protesters because Moscows detention centres were all full. He was among a record 4,002 people arrested across Russia last week, as large crowds took to the streets to demand the release of the opposition politician Alexei Navalny. Further protests have been called for Sunday, threatening to strain...

By Roy Landersen February 8, 2021 Reuters/Anton VaganovProtesters in over 100 Russian cities Jan. 23, including St. Petersburg, above, demand freedom for opposition leader Alexei Navalny, protest growing repression by regime of Vladimir Putin. Despite a brutal police crackdown, tens of thousands rallied in over 100 Russian cities across the country Jan. 23 demanding freedom for Alexei Navalny, the most prominent bourgeois opposition po...

Russian anti-Putin anger spreads: We have to protest By Sarah Rainsford image captionDetained protesters in Moscow: Filip Kuznetsov is front right Filip Kuznetsov spent an entire night crammed into a police van with 17 other protesters because Moscows detention centres were all full. He was among a record 4,002 people arrested across Russia last week, as large crowds took to the streets to demand the release of the opposition politician Alexei Navalny. Further protests have been called for Sund...

Location: Russia Event: Media sources indicate that on Saturday, January 23, demonstrations are being planned throughout Russia in support of an opposition activist. These demonstrations are likely to be unauthorized. Given the likely substantial police presence and possible dispersal of demonstrators into other areas of the cities, U.S. citizens should avoid these demonstrations and any demonstration-related activities. In Moscow, demonstrators plan to gather near Pushkin Square at approxima...

Whether out of superstition, scorn or steadfast denial, Russian President Vladimir Putin famously avoids saying Alexei Navalny’s name out loud. But across the vast country Putin rules, the leading opposition figure is known to practically everyone. Five months ago, Navalny lay comatose in a Berlin hospital, having narrowly escaped death by poisoning with a military-grade nerve agent. In the face of overwhelming evidence of a Kremlin role, Putin’s government denied any responsibility. Now th...

Russia is my country: Dissidents daring return sparks protests. Now what? Laura King © (Dmitri Lovetsky / Associated Press) People clash with police during a protest Saturday in St. Petersburg, Russia, against the jailing of opposition leader Alexei Navalny. (Dmitri Lovetsky / Associated Press) Whether out of superstition, scorn or steadfast denial, Russian President Vladimir Putin famously avoids saying Alexei Navalny’s name out loud. But across the vast country Putin rule...

Artist’s impression inside Putins alleged palace. Picture: Alexei Navalny/YouTube Navalny was detained as he returned to Russia from Germany, where he spent five months recovering after being poisoned with nerve agent Novichok in an assassination attempt he says was ordered by the Kremlin. Thousands have taken to the streets in cities across Russia calling for Navalnys release, while tens of millions of people have watched the film online.   Putin was on Monday asked about the fil...

Police detain thousands at pro-Alexei Navalny protests across Russia: See pictures here In Moscow, an estimated 15,000 demonstrators gathered in and around Pushkin Square in the city centre, where clashes with police broke out and demonstrators were roughly dragged off by helmeted riot officers to police buses and detention trucks. Some were beaten with batons. Navalny’s wife Yulia was among those arrested. Associated Press January 24, 2021 / 0...

Putin Denies Navalny’s Report of Palace as Nationwide Protests Grow Paul D. Shinkman © (Alexander Zemlianichenko/AP) Riot police block demonstrators gathering during a protest against the jailing of opposition leader Alexei Navalny in Pushkin square in Moscow, Russia, Saturday, Jan. 23, 2021. Russian police arrested more than 3,400 people Saturday in nationwide protests demanding the release of opposition leader Alexei Navalny, the Kremlins most prominent foe, according to ...

The Kitsch of Corruption Navalny’s careful reconstruction of the interior of Putin’s palace shows the full extent of the Russian president’s love of expensive kitsch. palace.navalny.com Alexei Navalny’s latest video, “A Palace for Putin,” paints a damning picture of how Russia’s president has siphoned off vast amounts of public money to construct a lavishly appointed residence for himself.  Following similar exposés of Medvedev’s secret dacha on the Volg...