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PARIS/BERLIN (Reuters) -Hundreds of protesters gathered in cities across Europe and beyond on Friday to express their outrage over the death of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny, chanting slogans critical of Russian President Vladimir Putin whom many blame for the activist's death.
Free Russia NL organized two vigils for Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who died on Friday at the Polar Wolf prison in Siberia. The 47-year-old was a prominent critic of President Vladimir Putin. The vigil was set up by the group of Russian-speaking residents and citizens of the Netherlands at Dam Square in Amsterdam and at the Russian embassy in The Hague on Friday starting at 6 p.m. A protest demonstration was also planned on Dam Square on Saturday. The event is expected to begin at noon in the capital.
Hundreds of protesters gathered in European cities on Friday to express their outrage over the death of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny, chanting slogans critical of Russian President Vladimir Putin...
BERLIN/VILNIUS (Reuters) -Hundreds of protesters, many of them Russian emigres, gathered in cities across Europe and beyond on Friday to express their outrage over the death of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny. Often gathering outside Russian embassies, they chanted slogans critical of Russian President Vladimir Putin, whom they blamed for the activist's death, holding up signs calling him a "killer" and demanding accountability. Putin's most formidable domestic opponent, Navalny fell unconscious and died on Friday after a walk at the Arctic penal colony where he was serving...
Some also chanted "Putin to the Hague", referring to the international criminal court investigating possible war crimes committed in Ukraine.