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Alexei Navalny Team Fixes Sights on Russia Election Showdown With Vladimir Putin On 4/29/21 at 8:44 AM EDT Leonid Volkov, Navalny's chief of staff, told Newsweek Wednesday that the politician's team is continuing their operations despite Navalny's jailing and recent ill health, plus intensified Kremlin efforts to shutter their organizations and intimidate Navalny's supporters. "So far we have been able to survive, we are flexible enough to adapt," Volkov told Newsweek from Lithuania. Volkov is unable to return to Russia due to an outstanding arrest warrant against him. Navalny was jailed in...

The Canadian Behind Watchdog That Holds UN to Account Hillel Neuer takes UN members to task for human rights abuses Montreal born-and-bred Hillel Neuer is on a mission to hold the United Nations to account, while calling out member states’ human rights abuses or inaction on atrocities. The executive director of Geneva-based UN Watch recently reiterated his criticism of China’s seat at the UN Human Rights Council, saying in a tweet that the UNHRC “will adopt 0 resolutions on that country’s gross and systematic human rights abuses.” On Feb. 25, he took aim at Beijing over its treatmen...