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All news Top stories in the Russian press on Wednesday, January 20 Russian State Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin at the opening session of Russian State Duma© Anton Novoderezhkin/TASS Kommersant: Russian MPs accuse Navalny of destabilizing Russia in favor of the West Read also During the opening session of the Russian State Duma on January 19, a number of MPs voiced highly critical opinions of opposition politician Alexey Navalny. Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin and leaders of opposition factions accused the blogger of destabilizing the situation in Russia in the interests of the West. Vol...

Could Navalny’s Detention Derail His Movement? Some analysts believe the opposition figure’s arrest could lead to a broader crackdown on his supporters. Alexei Navalny was arrested on his return to Russia. Mstyslav Chernov / EPA / TASS The arrest and detention for thirty days of prominent opposition activist Alexei Navalny is threatening to upend Russian politics in an already fraught year that will include parliamentary elections in September.  Since rising to prominence for his anti-Kremlin activism, Navalny — who was poisoned by the nerve a...

Alexei Navalny during a protest march in Moscow. Photo: vasilis asvestas / Shutterstock Late last month, chief Putin critic Aleksei Navalny released a scathing new video in which he posed as a Russian security official and coaxed a Kremlin agent into revealing incriminating details of the August 20th poisoning and attempted assassination. This event left Navalny in a coma. Despite this, a recent poll shows that nearly 50 per cent of Russian citizens believe that the poisoning did not happen at all or was a provocation by Western intelligence services. Such detachment from reality is the resu...

Russian opposition leader Evgeny Chupov 16 months after he applied for it.  Thus, he has refugee status in our country. He himself posted his info on the social network, along with the decision of the State Agency for Refugees. The Russian's wife and their four children will stay in Bulgaria with him. Evgeni Chupov has been in our country for more than a year, seeking protection and claiming that he is not safe in Russia. The 41-year-old man is an English teacher and runs a blog in which he often criticises Russian local authorities and actively engages in public activity. In 2015, he crea...

A company run by Russian businessman Yevgeny Prigozhin, purportedly close to President Vladimir Putin, on Wednesday said he was pursuing a libel settlement against opposition leader Alexei Navalny.