“I must admit that we have lost the streets,” Tikhanovskaya, who currently resides in Lithuania, told Swiss magazine Le Temps on Friday. “We don’t have the means to combat the regime’s violence against the protesters. They have the weapons, they have the force, so yes, for the moment, it seems …
Read More »Russian opposition figure Alexey Navalny handed $11,500 fine after being found guilty of defaming elderly WWII veteran in tweet
The judge opted to give Navalny less than the maximum fine allowed by law, which is 950,000 rubles ($13,000). Saturday’s decision came just hours after a previous conviction for embezzlement was upheld, during a hearing which took place in the exact same courtroom, and resulted in the opposition figure facing …
Read More »Jailed opposition figure Navalny to appear in Russian court to appeal fraud sentence & face verdict in WWII veteran ‘traitor’ case
The anti-corruption campaigner is facing over two-and-a-half years in a penal colony for reportedly breaching the terms of a suspended sentence handed down for his involvement in a 2014 scheme to defraud French cosmetics firm Yves Rocher. A court ruled in February that he had failed to regularly report to …
Read More »Russian opposition figure Navalny back in court for 3rd time in fortnight, as case over defamation of WWII veteran continues
The court hearing comes just ten days after the activist was sentenced to three-and-a-half years in jail, minus ten months already served, after being found guilty of breaking the terms of a suspended sentence, handed down for an embezzlement conviction in 2014. Navalny is being tried over accusations that he …
Read More »Russian opposition figure Navalny back in court for 3rd time in fortnight, as case over defamation of WWII veteran continues
The court hearing comes just ten days after the activist was sentenced to three-and-a-half years in jail, minus ten months already served, after being found guilty of breaking the terms of a suspended sentence, handed down for an embezzlement conviction in 2014. Navalny is being tried over accusations that he …
Read More »‘Stop calling them the opposition’: Russian Foreign Ministry says Navalny team are ‘agents of NATO,’ not legitimate politicians
“We should stop calling them the opposition. The opposition is something else,” Maria Zakharova said on Thursday to Russia’s Channel One. “They are agents of influence, and I will prove it to you now.” Zakharova recalled how key Navalny ally Leonid Volkov revealed last week that they would no longer …
Read More »‘Stop calling them the opposition’: Russian Foreign Ministry says Navalny team are ‘agents of NATO,’ not legitimate politicians
“We should stop calling them the opposition. The opposition is something else,” Maria Zakharova said on Thursday to Russia’s Channel One. “They are agents of influence, and I will prove it to you now.” Zakharova recalled how key Navalny ally Leonid Volkov revealed last week that they would no longer …
Read More »Kiev could prosecute journalist for asking opposition leader if Ukraine would be better off as part of Russia amid media crackdown
Alyona Berezovskaya made the remarks in an interview with Viktor Medvedchuk, the leader of the ‘Opposition Platform – For Life’ bloc, broadcast by RT Russian. On Friday, local media reported that the SBU – Kiev’s successor to the Soviet-era KGB – had begun an investigation into whether her line of …
Read More »Coup attempt foiled in Haiti, president says, amid term dispute between him and opposition
“The goal of these people was to make an attempt on my life,” Moise told journalists on Sunday, adding that the plot was “aborted.” The President also said that the plot was in the works since at least the end of November, adding a Supreme Court judge and a police inspector …
Read More »‘Genie’s out of the bottle’: German FM pledges €21 million to help Belarusian opposition, ‘oppressed people’
Seemingly in an effort to cement an image of Berlin as the leader among European nations sponsoring anti-government movements in the post-Soviet space, Maas on Saturday addressed the so-called Belarus Solidarity Conference – an online event organized by the World Belarus Congress, a forum of Belarusian expatriate diasporas and opposition-supporting …
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