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 …
Read More »Flight scheduled to bring Russian opposition figure Navalny home to Moscow & possible arrest takes off from German capital
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, …
Read More »Russian opposition figure Navalny to face new criminal case over alleged use of ‘anti-corruption’ donations ‘for personal gain’
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 …
Read More »Video allegedly showing Russian opposition figure Navalny ‘talking to FSB officer’ is fake, Russia’s Security Service says
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 …
Read More »Putin claims opposition figure Alexey Navalny working with American intelligence, says Kremlin not behind his alleged poisoning
Putin added that if Russian security services wanted to assassinate the western-leaning protest leader, they would have “finished the job.” He also insisted that the FSB were within their rights to follow Navalny, given their suspicions. Earlier this week, a joint report by the US and UK state-funded Bellingcat, Russia’s …
Read More »French figure skating champ faces felony charge in Florida for allegedly sending intimate photos to minor
The Florida state attorney’s office has filed a felony charge against Ciprès, who allegedly sent pictures of his penis to a 13-year-old girl in 2017 while preparing for the 2018 Winter Olympics in the US with his skating partner Vanessa James. READ MORE: ‘I had no idea about her assault’: Bareknuckle …
Read More »Useful Idiot or Trojan Horse? Belarusian opposition figure Tikhanovskaya’s links to NATO’s Atlantic Council adjunct raise eyebrows
From the moment she announced her candidacy for the Belarusian presidency after her husband Sergey was spuriously jailed for electioneering activities that would be considered normal in the rest of Europe, Tikhanovskaya has been a darling of the Western media. With her improbable ascension from stay-at-home mother to leading opposition …
Read More »Russian opposition figure Alexey Navalny confirms Angela Merkel visited him in Berlin hospital, expresses gratitude to Chancellor
The publication reported that Merkel called to see Navalny after he woke up from a coma – an overture from the leader that it called an “unusual gesture.” It had previously been made known that the opposition figure and Moscow protests leader was to be considered a “guest of the Chancellor” …
Read More »Russian opposition figure Navalny discharged from Berlin hospital, doctors believe ‘full recovery’ from alleged poisoning possible
Navalny, also one of the main organisers of the Moscow protest movement, was airlifted to Germany last month after he fell ill on a flight from Siberia to Moscow. German authorities later alleged he had been poisoned with a lethal version of Novichok, a substance originally formulated in the Soviet Union …
Read More »Russian opposition figure Alexey Navalny out of coma and responding to verbal stimuli – Berlin Charité hospital
On Monday afternoon, the German clinic reported that the condition of the opposition figure and Moscow protest leader has improved, and he is now responding to verbal stimuli. “It remains too early to gauge the potential long-term effects of his severe poisoning,” the statement said. Navalny, a social media star who …
Read More »