Alexei Navalny

A new satellite TV channel allows Alexei Navalny's videos to reach Russian audiences

5:06pm June 04, 2025

The Russia's Future channel, launched by Navalny's widow Yulia Navalnaya and Reporters Without Borders, began broadcasting Wednesday, on what would have been the late Russian activist's 49th birthday.

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A Russian court has ordered the arrest of Alexei Navalny's widow, who lives abroad

12:17pm July 10, 2024

by Charles Maynes

A Moscow court ordered the arrest of the widow of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny during a hearing that was conducted in absentia as part of a sweeping Kremlin crackdown on the opposition.

People watch as workers carry the coffin of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny to the Church of the Icon of the Mother of God "Relieve My Sorrows" in Moscow, Friday.

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Supporters chant 'We are not afraid' as Russia's Navalny is laid to rest

10:27am March 01, 2024

by Nick Spicer

Despite fears of a police crackdown, Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny's funeral in southeast Moscow went on peacefully, two weeks after his mysterious death in an Arctic penal colony.

A flower and a picture are left as a tribute to Russian politician Alexei Navalny, near the Russian Embassy in London, Feb. 18.

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Navalny was about to be swapped for a Russian prisoner in Germany, an associate says

2:53pm February 26, 2024

by The Associated Press

An associate of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny says in a video statement talks were underway shortly before his death to exchange him for a Russian imprisoned in Germany.

Russian President Vladimir Putin and Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu (right) take part in a wreath-laying ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Alexander Garden on Defender of the Fatherland Day, in Moscow, Friday.

Biden announces over 500 new sanctions for Russia's war in Ukraine and Navalny death

4:42pm February 23, 2024

by Jackie Northam

President Biden has announced more than 500 new sanctions over Russia's war in Ukraine and the death of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny.

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Boris Nadezhdin, a liberal Russian politician who was disqualified from the March presidential election, awaits a meeting of Russia's Central Election Commission in Moscow, Thursday, Feb. 8, 2024.

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Why a disqualified Russian candidate remains a critic of Putin

7:15am February 21, 2024

When asked whether his political activities put him in danger, Boris Nadezhdin quoted a proverb, "If you are afraid of wolves, you should not go to the forest."

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Republican presidential candidate and former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley speaks at a campaign event at Clemson University in Greenville, S.C., on Tuesday.

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Nikki Haley says challenging Trump is more important than ever

5:09pm February 20, 2024

by Sarah McCammon

With just days to go before South Carolina's crucial Republican primary, Nikki Haley is making the case for her continued candidacy for the Republican presidential nomination.

Russian President Vladimir Putin visits a factory on Thursday.

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Putin's regime is 'running out of fuel,' a Russian opposition activist tells NPR

6:54pm February 19, 2024

If the Russian president continues to burn through his reserves of oil and gas money, ordinary people will become a threat to his power, according to one outspoken activist.

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Yulia Navalnaya, wife of late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, attends the Munich Security Conference in Munich, Germany, on Feb. 16, on the day it was announced that Alexei Navalny had died.

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Widow of Alexei Navalny takes center stage in Russia's opposition

4:09pm February 19, 2024

by Charles Maynes

Yulia Navalnaya appeared on her late husband's YouTube channel in a forceful challenge to Russian President Vladimir Putin, accusing him of murder. Navalnaya says she will carry on her husband's work.

People lay flowers paying the last respect to Alexei Navalny at the monument, a large boulder from the Solovetsky islands, where the first camp of the Gulag political prison system was established, near the historical the Federal Security Service (FSB, Soviet KGB successor) building in the background, in Moscow, Russia, on Saturday morning, Feb. 17, 2024.

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Over 400 detained in Russia as country mourns the death of Alexei Navalny

4:46am February 18, 2024

by The Associated Press

Over 400 people were detained in Russia while paying tribute to opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who died at a remote Arctic penal colony, a prominent rights group reported.