The footage showed Navalny in a green coat being escorted by several uniformed police officers at the airport’s passport control area. He wasn’t handcuffed and didn’t resist law enforcement in any way. Russia’s prison authority has confirmed the detention of the activist and blogger over breaching the terms of his …
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Navalny and his wife Yulia left the plane together on Sunday evening with the rest of the passengers and drove to the terminal in a bus. The activist was arrested at the immigration desk. Russia’s prison authority has confirmed the detention. Navalny, who was wanted for breaching the terms of …
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Tensions were high at Vnukovo International Airport, located 10 kilometers southwest of Moscow, where a flight from low-cost airline Pobeda with Navalny aboard was initially scheduled to land on Sunday. A large crowd of opposition supporters gathered in Vnukovo in order to greet the man on home soil. Videos from …
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The flight carrying the anti-corruption activist and Moscow protest leader became the most tracked plane on the Flight Radar service on Sunday. “I expect beautiful weather in Moscow, at minus 23°C, and a pleasant feeling that I have reached my hometown,” Navalny told reporters on board the plane. Upon arrival at the capital’s Vnukovo airport, …
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Writing on Instagram, he revealed he would be returning despite his firmly held belief that he was attacked with a deadly nerve agent on the orders of President Vladimir Putin. Посмотреть эту публикацию в Instagram Публикация от Алексей Навальный (@navalny) “Now Putin, who gave the order to kill me, shouts …
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Navalny’s comments come after the country’s Federal Penitentiary Service (FSIN) submitted an application to a Moscow court, accusing the anti-corruption activist of “failure to fulfill assigned duties” regarding a suspended sentence he received in 2014. Back then, Navalny was found guilty of embezzling 30 million rubles ($400,000) from two companies, …
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According to prosecutors, Navalny spent around 356 million rubles ($4.8 million) of money raised for political and journalistic activities for “personal purposes” including “an acquisition of personal property, material assets and payment of expenses, including on trips abroad.” It alleges the funds came out of more than 588 million rubles …
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The former political candidate works as a lawyer for Navalny’s Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK), and has been a mainstay of the Moscow street protest movement since 2011. Sobol was detained on December 21 outside Konstantin Kudryavtsev’s building in Moscow, before being released with a small fine of 1,000 rubles (about $13) …
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The survey, conducted by Levada, also revealed that 19 percent of respondents believe that Western intelligence agencies are responsible for the poisoning – four percent more than blame the Kremlin. Last week, President Vladimir Putin linked the activist to foreign states, specifically claiming he works alongside US special services. The …
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A conversation between Navalny and a man described as one of the FSB agents supposedly involved in an alleged operation by the security service to poison and kill the opposition figure is nothing but a ruse, the FSB press service said in a statement. The authors of the footage resorted …
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