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Biden demands ‘unconditional release’ of Russia’s opposition leader Alexei Navalny after Putin crackdown on protests White House press secretary Jen Psaki called for ‘immediate and unconditional’ release of Navalny Russian authorities arrested more than 3,000 over the weekend Many turned out in bitterly cold conditions Navlany facing 30-day jail sentence after being poisoned in August … Read more
Vladimir Putin has denied that a palace on the Black Sea belongs to him, after arch-rival Alexei Navalny accused him of owning it in an anti-corruption investigation. ‘Nothing that is listed there as my property belongs to me or my close relatives, and never did,’ Putin said during a video call with students on Monday. … Read more
Vladimir Putin’s alleged love child is following Alexei Navalny on Instagram where she faces regular trolling over her father. Elizaveta, known as Luiza, is the daughter of cleaner-turned-millionaire Svetlana Krivonogikh, 45, who reportedly had an affair with the Kremlin leader in the late 1990s. The 17-year-old, who boasts 91,000 followers on Instagram, featured in a … Read more
A teenager is teaching other Russians how to ‘sound like an American’ when confronted by police at protests tomorrow against the detention of opposition leader Alexei Navalny. Law enforcement agencies are preparing to suppress nationwide demonstrations after 44-year-old Navalny urged supporters to flood the streets to protest him being detained on return to Russia. Navalny, … Read more
A teenager is teaching other Russians how to ‘sound like an American’ when confronted by police at protests tomorrow against the detention of opposition leader Alexei Navalny. Law enforcement agencies are preparing to suppress nationwide demonstrations after 44-year-old Navalny urged supporters to flood the streets to protest him being detained on return to Russia. Navalny, … Read more
The spokeswoman of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was jailed for nine days today to stop her from attending further protests as the Kremlin’s free-speech crackdown extends to the country’s young people. The imprisonment of Kira Yarmysh today for multiple counts of organising a rally comes before pro-democracy Russians are due to take to the … Read more
Kremlin foe Alexei Navalny is spending his days under strict control in a VIP cell inside one of Moscow’s most infamous jails, it has been revealed. The prison, called Matrosskaya Tishina or Sailor’s Silence, occupies a block in Moscow’s north-east and has housed high-ranking prisoners the authorities wanted to cut off from the outside world … Read more
Kremlin foe Alexei Navalny has accused Vladimir Putin of using state cash to fund his secret mistresses. Navalny, 44, claimed that the Russian leader – who he labels the world’s richest man – uses a ‘slush fund’ to cover the expenses of his other women and their families including his 17-year-old love child. He has … Read more
Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny, who was arrested on his return to Russia last weekend, has claimed a strip club, casino and a theatre are among a series of luxurious rooms inside President Putin’s £1billion ‘palace’. Navalny claims to be in possession of leaked floor plans of Putin’s lavish property on Russia’s southern Black Sea coast … Read more
US secretary of state Mike Pompeo leads world condemnation of Kremlin for arresting Alexei Navalny – but Moscow hits back telling Americans: ‘Deal with problems in your own country’ Mike Pompeo said he was ‘deeply troubled by Russia’s decision to arrest’ Navalny UK’s Foreign Office said Moscow was ‘persecuting the victim’ of a ‘terrible crime’ EU … Read more