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Kremlin critic Navalny heads home to Russia


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Russians in Moscow, St. Petersburg and other cities took to the streets Tuesday in protest of opposition leader Alexei Navalny being sentenced to 2.8 years in prison.

Despite hundreds of riot police stationed throughout central Moscow and St. Petersburg warning people not to stage unauthorized protests, thousands of Navalny's supporters rallied in spontaneous groups throughout the night.

Video footage showed police brutally beating and detaining protesters and journalists, sparking widespread condemnation.

Moscow Times

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Russia has announced the expulsion of diplomats from Sweden, Poland and Germany for taking part in a rally in support of jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny.

The foreign ministry said in a statement that the officials' attendance at the 'unlawful' protests on 23 January were 'unacceptable and inappropriate'.

They have been declared 'persona non grata' and are required to leave Russia "in the nearest future," the ministry added.

MSN

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The US has announced sanctions on seven Russian government officials and 13 Russian and European companies in response to the poisoning of opposition leader Alexei Navalny, which a US intelligence assessment confirmed to be the work of the FSB.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/us-hits-russian-officials-with-fresh-sanctions-over-navalny-poisoning/ar-BB1e9Xm5

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Russian police have broken up an opposition conference and detained 200 people including high-profile opposition figures.

The weekend forum had just begun in a Moscow hotel when police burst in and said they were detaining everyone.

According to police, coronavirus rules were broken and the event was arranged by an "undesirable organisation".

The incident comes as authorities continue to crack down on opposition activity as elections loom.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-56385012

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Alexei Navalny, the prominent opponent of Russian President Vladimir Putin, is incarcerated in conditions that amount to torture and may slowly be killing him, human rights group Amnesty International said on Wednesday.

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Russian police detained nine people outside a prison holding Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny on Tuesday as a small group of his supporters came to the facility, and authorities turned away a doctor who tried to see him.

France 24

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A Russian court has handed week-long sentences to several supporters of jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny after they traveled to his penal colony to demand he receives proper medical treatment.

Police on Tuesday detained nine Navalny supporters outside his prison in the town of Pokrov around 100 kilometers east of Moscow for violating public order.

https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2021/04/08/navalny-supporters-jailed-for-penal-colony-protest-a73526

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Jail staff are threatening to force-feed Putin critic Alexei Navalny, who has lost 15kg (33lbs) in weight since he was taken to the prison last month, according to his allies.

The Russian opposition leader, 44, began a hunger strike at penal colony number 2 in Pokrov at the end of March to highlight what he said was the authorities' refusal to give him proper treatment for his back and leg pain.

Sky news report

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Doctors for the jailed Russian opposition activist Alexei Navalny say he "will die within the next few days" if not given medical attention.

Doctors say recent blood test results indicate he could suffer cardiac arrest or kidney failure at any moment.

Navalny has been on a hunger strike for 18 days, to demand proper treatment for acute back pain and leg numbness.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-56786266

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Russia moves ailing Putin critic Navalny to prison hospital

Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has been moved to a prison hospital, where the authorities say his condition is "satisfactory".

He has been on hunger strike for 20 days, complaining of inadequate medical attention. He is now in Vladimir, a city 180km (112 miles) east of Moscow.

The FSIN prison service says he is being examined by a doctor daily and he has agreed to take vitamins.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-56800642

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Russia's main opposition figure Alexei Navalny has announced he is ending his hunger strike after 24 days of refusing food in jail.

Hours earlier his private doctors had appealed to him to take food to preserve his life and health.

Navalny began refusing food on 31 March to demand better medical care.

He said he had twice been seen by civilian doctors and "given the progress and circumstances, I am ending my hunger strike".

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-56858865

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Russian dissident Alexei Navalny today goes on trial for embezzlement charges in what critics of Putin believe is a hearing specially scheduled to coincide with the furore surrounding Ukraine.

Navalny, 45, faces a special hearing inside a prison in Pokrov near Moscow where he is currently serving a two-and-a-half year sentence on fraud charges widely thought to be unfounded.

If he is ultimately found guilty of embezzlement, Putin's most prolific political opponent could be jailed until 2032.

MSN

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5 hours ago, Eldorado said:

Russian dissident Alexei Navalny today goes on trial for embezzlement charges in what critics of Putin believe is a hearing specially scheduled to coincide with the furore surrounding Ukraine.

Navalny, 45, faces a special hearing inside a prison in Pokrov near Moscow where he is currently serving a two-and-a-half year sentence on fraud charges widely thought to be unfounded.

If he is ultimately found guilty of embezzlement, Putin's most prolific political opponent could be jailed until 2032.

MSN

Clearly, all that old guard from the cold war need to go in retirement...Sure that Yeltsin was a drunk mess and needed replacement, Putin was a good change but needed to go after two terms, now he's an encroached powercreep. External forces are pulling string for sure like in any country but Russian leadership is in a fragile mess for these frantic repressions to occur. 

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Russia Navalny: Putin critic given nine-year jail sentence in trial branded 'sham'

Russia's most prominent opposition figure Alexei Navalny has been given nine years in a "strict regime penal colony" in a fraud case rejected by supporters as fabricated.

Navalny was detained when he returned to Russia last year, after surviving a poisoning he blamed on the Kremlin.

He is already serving three and a half years in jail for breaking bail conditions while in hospital.

A judge has now found him guilty of fraud and contempt of court.

The new sentence replaces his earlier jail term, so the opposition leader will now have to serve some seven years in a maximum-security prison, with much stricter conditions and far more remote than the jail in Pokrov east of Moscow where he has spent more than a year.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-60832310

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