World Mar 22 Watch 7:28 Russian court extends Alexei Navalny’s prison sentence amid crackdown on critics For years Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny and his organization have been the target of a Kremlin campaign of harassment, jailing and even poisoning. And on Tuesday he received a new verdict in prison, where he is already serving a… By Nick Schifrin, Dan Sagalyn
World May 24 Watch 8:42 EU sanctions Belarus for arresting journalist in Ryanair ‘hijacking’ The government of Belarus on Sunday forced an international civilian plane flying over its airspace to land to arrest a passenger, a dissident Belorussian blogger. The move was widely condemned in the United States and in Europe. Nick Schifrin reports… By Nick Schifrin, Layla Quran
World Feb 04 Kremlin says thousands of arrests at protests was necessary response The Kremlin strongly rebuffed Western criticism Thursday and described the thousands of arrests at protests against the jailing of opposition leader Alexei Navalny as a necessary response to the unsanctioned rallies. By Vladimir Isachenkov, Associated Press
World Jan 22 In Russia, effort underway to curb upcoming Navalny protests Authorities in Russia have taken elaborate measures to curb protests against the jailing of opposition leader Alexei Navalny, planned by his supporters for Saturday. By Daria Litvinova, Associated Press
Aug 10 Moscow election protest attracts huge crowd, spurs spinoffs By Jim Heintz, Associated Press Tens of thousands of people rallied Saturday in one of Moscow’s biggest political protests in recent years, denouncing the exclusion of opposition and independent candidates from the Russian capital’s city council ballot. Continue reading
Aug 03 Moscow police detain more than 800 at protest, monitor says By Jim Heintz, Associated Press Police in Moscow cracked down hard on an unsanctioned election protest for the second weekend in a row Saturday, detaining more than 800 people at a rally against the exclusion from city council contests of some independent and opposition candidates,… Continue reading
Jul 28 Nearly 1,400 detained in Moscow protest; largest in decade By Nataliya Vasilyeva, Associated Press Nearly 1,400 people were detained in a violent police crackdown on an opposition protest in Moscow, a Russian monitoring group said Sunday, adding that was the largest number of detentions at a rally in the Russian capital this decade. Continue reading