All posts tagged "Alexei Navalny"

Yulia Navalnaya, the widow of late Russian opposition figure Alexei Navalny, has described Hungary's right-wing populist Prime Minister Viktor Orbán as an accomplice of Russian President Vladimir Putin. She made the comments in a video message shown at a large rally of opposition supporters in Budapest on Friday. "Be brave," Navalnaya said, repeating one of her husband’s central messages. Navalnaya said that in addition to Orbán, there are other Putin supporters in Europe. Putin dared to start the war against Ukraine because he knew that he would be helped from Europe, she added. Just as Putin......

A day after the funeral on Friday of Kremlin opponent Alexei Navalny, people continued on Saturday to bid farewell to the Russian dissident at his grave in Moscow's Borisov cemetery, undeterred by the presence of police. Independent Russian media reported that the police allowed the mourners to stay unhindered at the grave and lay flowers. Pictures of the gravesite showed a sea of flowers and wreaths, and a Russian Orthodox cross with a photo of a smiling Navalny. According to the authorities, Navalny died on February 16 in a prison camp in the Yamal region, 1,900 kilometres north-east of Mosc......

Russian President Vladimir Putin and the Russian state bear "criminal and political responsibility" for the death of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny, a resolution from the European Parliament said on Thursday. The resolution strongly condemned the death of Navalny, pledged full support to his widow Yulia Navalnaya to continue his work and called for Putin to be held accountable. Navalny died aged 47 on February 16. He was weakened by a poison attack in 2020 and repeatedly held in solitary confinement in a Russian prison camp in the Siberian Arctic region, and is said to have collapsed while exer......