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Channels Television   Updated April 29, 2021 Activists from Amnesty International demonstrate outside the Russian embassy in Berlin, on April 24, 2021, calling for the release of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny. Odd ANDERSEN / AFP   A key aide to jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny said Thursday his organisation was disbanding its national network ahead of a court ruling expected to declare it an extremist organisation. The announcement came as Navalny made his first video appearance in court since ending a hunger strike last week, appearing gaunt in a prison uniform and with a buzz haircut....

MOSCOW - Alexei Navalny's political network said Thursday it is disbanding, as the jailed Kremlin critic appeared in court, gaunt and shaven headed, for the first time since ending his hunger strike.

share Print Four years ago, a court in the Russian Far Eastern city of Blagoveshchensk watched Kill The Cosmonauts -- a satirical music video that proposed murdering space adventurers for "climbing toward heaven"-- and was not amused. The court found that the video, by a hardcore punk group called the Ensemble Of Christ The Savior And Crude Mother Earth, constituted "extremist material." It banned the video, on the basis of a 2002 Russian law, and added it to a federal blacklist of prohibited materials. "It is hard to imagine that the calls…contained in the text could be taken seriously eve...

A gaunt Alexei Navalny makes first court appearance in weeks amid crackdown on his allies The network of offices in dozens of regions that were opened when the opposition leader was campaigning to run in the 2018 presidential election are being closed down as the government petitions to outlaw its political opponents as extremist groups. By DARIA LITVINOVAAssociated Press Share In this photo provided by the Babuskinsky District Court on Thursday, Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny is seen on a TV screen during a hearing on his charges for defamation in Moscow, Russia. Babuskinsky Dist...

  MOSCOW -- A top ally of imprisoned Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny said Thursday that the network of the politician's offices in Russia is being closed as authorities seek to have it and Navalny's Foundation for Fighting Corruption outlawed as extremist groups. Also on Thursday, Navalny made his first public appearance in weeks, facing a court via video link from behind bars. The politician looked gaunt after a three-week hunger strike, but still was able to slam the Kremlin in an emotional speech. His embattled team has faced a major challenge this month. The Moscow prosecuto...