Putin critic Alexei Navalny boards plane for Moscow despite threats of arrest

Alexei Navalny has boarded a plane bound for Moscow, despite Russian authorities’ stated desire to arrest him and potentially jail him for years. Navalny, one of President Vladimir Putin’s most prominent critics, was flown to Berlin in August for emergency medical treatment after being poisoned with what German tests showed was a Novichok nerve agent. … Read more

Kremlin issues Alexei Navalny ultimatum to return to Moscow immediately or face jail

Kremlin tells opposition leader Alexei Navalny that he is breaching terms of a suspended prison sentence by staying in Germany to be treated for novichok poisoning – and demands he return to Moscow immediately or face jail The prominent Putin critic has been in Germany since his poisoning Russia’s prison service said he must return … Read more

FSB assassins ‘were behind Navalny poison attack’

Russia’s FSB security service was behind the poisoning of Alexei Navalny in an operation which was likely approved ‘at the highest echelons of the Kremlin’, according to an investigative report by Bellingcat.  Navalny was targeted after ‘years of surveillance’ in which the Putin critic was ‘shadowed’ by a special FSB unit – who may even … Read more

Russia ‘tried to assassinate opponent Alexander Navalny with Novichok nerve agent a second time’  

Russia ‘tried to assassinate opposition leader Alexander Navalny with Novichok nerve agent a second time’ after he survived Siberia attack German sources have claimed Navalny was given a second dose while in a coma  Navalny fell ill on flight to Moscow in August and brought to Berlin for treatment  Later revealed that military labs had … Read more

Senior Kremlin officials hit with sanctions after Alexei Navalny poisoning

‘Vladimir Putin’s chef’ is given travel ban as senior Kremlin officials are hit with sanctions by Britain and the EU after Alexei Navalny poisoning ‘Putin’s chef’ Yevgeniy Prigozhin has been hit with sanctions by Britain and EU Prigozhin was sanctioned over ‘significant foreign mercenary activity’ in Libya Six other Russians with links to Alexei Navalny’s poisoning … Read more

Alexei Navalny shows off his shaking hand as he reveals the effects of his novichok poisoning

Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny has shown his shaking hands as he continues to recover from a suspected novichok poisoning in August. Navalny made the comments during his first video appearance since being discharged from a Berlin hospital, recorded just six days after he was released. ‘My hands shake. If I were to drink water from … Read more

Alexei Navalny says Putin was behind Novichok poison plot

Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has alleged that Vladimir Putin was behind the poison plot which left him fighting for his life.  Pointing the finger directly at the Russian president for the first time, Navalny told German magazine Der Spiegel that ‘Putin is behind the crime and I don’t have any other versions of what … Read more

Alexei Navalny back up and walking after treatment for nerve agent poisoning at Berlin hospital

Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny is back up and walking after treatment for novichok nerve agent poisoning at Berlin hospital Vladimir Putin’s political opponent shared a photo walking down hospital stairs  He can now breathe independently after being taken off a ventilator this week  Navalny gave an update on his recovery: ‘This is a clear … Read more

Navalny team says he was poisoned by water bottle in hotel room

Putin-critic Alexei Navalny says he was poisoned by a bottle of water in his hotel room and NOT a cup of tea at the airport Traces of Novichok found in hotel water bottles, Alexei Navalny has claimed  It was previously thought he was poisoned at the airport before domestic flight Russia says it has seen … Read more

Alexei Navalny says he can breathe unaided a month after he was poisoned with Novichok 

Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny says he can breathe unaided a month after he was poisoned with Novichok Navalny said he was ‘able to breathe on my own all day’ a month after poisoning Berlin hospital doctors say the Putin critic’s condition ‘continues to improve’  Navalny was taken ill in August in what Germany says … Read more