The activist is serving time in jail after being found guilty earlier this year of breaking the conditions of a suspended sentence handed to him in 2014, when he was found guilty of embezzling 30 million rubles ($400,000) from two companies, including the French cosmetics brand Yves Rocher. Last week, …
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Spring has arrived with a burst of new growth for the German Greens, giving rise to the biggest potential upset in Germany’s politics since the war – the election of the nation’s first Green Chancellor. One poll has the ruling Christian Democrats and Christian Socialist alliance just two points ahead …
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At a Senate roundtable marking the anniversary of Crimea’s reabsorption on Thursday, Andrey Kartapolov, Russia’s deputy defense minister, told colleagues that “there are more and more attempts by the special services of a number of Western countries, as well as Ukraine, to intensify the activities of Russia’s internal non-parliamentary opposition.” …
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“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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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“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 …
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“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 …
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