Russian court jails Kremlin critic Navalny as over 1,400 protesters detained
Britain, France, Germany, the United States and the European Union denounced the ruling and called for his immediate release.
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Britain, France, Germany, the United States and the European Union denounced the ruling and called for his immediate release.
Navalny’s team said there was ‘overwhelming nationwide support’ for the Kremlin’s fiercest critic.
Protesters defied government warnings to rally from Vladivostok to Saint Petersburg in a second weekend of mass demonstrations.
Tens of thousands rallied in support of jailed opposition politician Alexei Navalny in Russia this weekend.
Thousands of protesters joined in cities today to support the jailed Kremlin critic.
Navalny was detained on arrival in Russia after recovering from nerve agent poisoning in Germany.
Moscow quickly hit back that the accusations were “unacceptable” and amounted to “blackmail”.
Alexei Navalny fell ill on a flight to Moscow and is now in an induced coma in a Berlin hospital.
One was installed at his residence and two more at the Kremlin, according to his spokesman.
The incident came on the eve of the Day of Security Service in Russia.
The protests come following a refusal to allow some opposition politicians to run in the September polls.
The rally came a week after the capital’s biggest demonstration in years.
Ivan Golunov was detained last week after being charged with attempting to deal a “large amount” of drugs.
Sex, as a subject, remains largely an unmentionable in Russia.
There were 78 people including crew members on board the plane.
This is far later than previously acknowledged.
Paul Whelan, who has denied the charges, could face up to 20 years in prison if found guilty.
It’s the latest in a series of espionage cases between Russia and the West.
The incident occurred in Sheremetyevo airport at around 8pm yesterday.
Over the weekend, Trump announced a withdrawal from a Cold War-era nuclear weapons treaty.
The Kremlin has rejected past charges about its involvement in the case.
Putin said the two men do not work for the military and called on them to come forward.
The 37-year-old is said to have undergone a medical with Spartak officials in Rome.
His task is to ” promote the further development of Russian-American relations in the humanitarian sphere”.
A probe found she was having regular unauthorised meetings with the main Russian intelligence agency, the FSB.
The four members ran onto the pitch at Moscow’s Luzniki stadium in the second half of the World Cup final between France and Croatia.
They were found guilty of “grossly violating the rules for spectators’ behaviour” and given the maximum punishment possible under the charge.
The driver says he ran away from the scene because he was afraid of being attacked.
Russian police arrested a 37-year-old man who used a metal pole to break the glass covering the painting.
The investigations have been launched on the back of the Salisbury nerve agent attack in March.
Yury Filatov said it was “absolutely ridiculous” to suggest Russia was covering up any chemical attack.
The Russian Military says it has proof that the attack was staged on orders from London.
The Kremlin has denied its involvement in the poisoning of a former double agent and his daughter in Salisbury.
Tensions are rising after the UK said it was likely Russia was behind a recent poisoning attack on an ex-spy.
The plane took off from Moscow on Sunday and went down in a field around 70 kilometres southeast of the city shortly after.
71 people lost their lives in yesterday’s crash near Moscow airport.
Around 65 passengers and 6 crew members were on board the regional flight destined for Orsk.
Earlier, police raided the Moscow office of Navalny as the demonstrations calling for a boycott of Russia’s presidential election took place.
Authorities have not mentioned terrorism as a possible cause.
Video footage shows the bus driving down into the underpass, hitting a number of people.