If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. Following an assassination attempt on his life in 2020, formerRussian opposition leader Alexei Navalny recuperated in Germany and made a decision that stunned many — he would return …
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The Biden administration has announced it will level 500 new sanctions against Russia following the death of jailed Russian dissident Alexei Navalny in a Siberian prison. In a Friday statement from the White House, President Joe Biden announced the sanctions package, which was unveiled just one day shy of the …
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Donald Trump doubled down on his comparison to Russian opposition leaderAlexei Navalny, whodied on Fridayin an arctic penal colony and is widely believed to have been murdered by the government of Vladimir Putin. When speaking at a Fox News town hall on Tuesday evening, Trump grotesquely likened a civil fraud …
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The widow of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was temporarily suspended from X, formerly Twitter, on Tuesday after announcing she would continue her dead husband’s fight against Vladimir Putin’s authoritarian government. Since Navalny’s death on Friday, Yulia Navalnaya has led a public campaign to pressure the Russian government for the …
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It’s Presidents’ Day, and America’s 45th is having a real one. Donald Trump spent the morning of the Monday holiday railing against the nearly half-billion-dollar court judgment levied against him for fraud in New York state, and grotesquely comparing himself to the Russian political dissident Alexei Navalny, who died last …
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Pussy Riot called Vladimir Putin and the Russian government “murderers” at a protest Sunday in Germany following the death of opposition leader Alexei Navalny. The group’s creatorNadya Tolokonnikova and fellow members of the protest and performance art collective staged the demonstration outside the Russian embassy in Berlin, where a makeshift …
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Russia has arrested at least 400 people across the country for protesting the death of opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who was imprisoned in a Russian penal colony when he died suddenly on Friday. Among those detained is a priest, Father Grigory Mikhnov-Vaitenko, who was planning to lead a St. Petersberg …
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U2 paid tribute to Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who was imprisoned in a Russian penal colony where he died suddenly on Friday. On Saturday, during U2’s residency at the Sphere in Las Vegas, Bono addressed the crowd before their performance of Crowded House’s “Don’t Dream It’s Over,” a staple …
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Russia’s leading opposition figure, Alexei Navalny, who united people in his fight against Vladimir Putin’s regime, died Friday in a remote Arctic prison, where he was serving a decades-long sentence on trumped-up charges. He is survived by his wife, two kids, and the millions of Russians at home and abroad …
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Alexei Navalny, the Russia opposition leader and fierce critic of Vladimir Putin, died in prison, Russian authorities announced on Friday. He was 47. Russia’s prison service said Navalny felt unwell after taking a walk and lost consciousness. He was service a 19-year sentence on controversial, extremism-related charges. “The facility’s medical …
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