# russia - Monday 22 February, 2021
# Kremlin Critic
# Kremlin Critic
The EU also agreed on sanctions for Myanmar over the military’s seizure of power.
# russia - Wednesday 17 February, 2021
# Alexei Navalny
# Alexei Navalny
Alexei Navalny was arrested and jailed upon returning to Russia last month.
# russia - Tuesday 16 February, 2021
# Kremlin Critic
# Kremlin Critic
In his closing arguments, Navalny said that “every moment of this case is obvious legal nonsense”.
# russia - Friday 12 February, 2021
# Alexei Navalny
# Alexei Navalny
During a theatrical trial today, the opposition figure sparred with the judge and prosecutor and mocked the veteran’s grandson.
# russia - Saturday 6 February, 2021
# Profile
# Profile
What next for Russia following the jailing of the anti-corruption opposition leader?
# russia - Wednesday 3 February, 2021
# Russia
# Russia
Navalny was sentenced to nearly three years in prison.
# Moscow
# Moscow
Britain, France, Germany, the United States and the European Union denounced the ruling and called for his immediate release.
# russia - Tuesday 2 February, 2021
# Jailed
# Jailed
Navalny is the most prominent critic of Russia n President Vladimir Putin.
# The Lancet
# The Lancet
The preliminary findings show that the two-dose Sputnik V “has shown high efficacy” and was well tolerated for adults.
# russia - Monday 1 February, 2021
# Moscow
# Moscow
Navalny’s team said there was ‘overwhelming nationwide support’ for the Kremlin’s fiercest critic.
# russia - Sunday 31 January, 2021
# Kremlin
# Kremlin
Protesters defied government warnings to rally from Vladivostok to Saint Petersburg in a second weekend of mass demonstrations.
# russia - Sunday 24 January, 2021
# Russia
# Russia
Tens of thousands rallied in support of jailed opposition politician Alexei Navalny in Russia this weekend.
# russia - Saturday 23 January, 2021
# Moscow
# Moscow
Thousands of protesters joined in cities today to support the jailed Kremlin critic.
# russia - Tuesday 19 January, 2021
# Russia
# Russia
Navalny was arrested after returning from Germany following treatment for nerve agent poisoning.
# russia - Monday 18 January, 2021
# Poisoning
# Poisoning
Navalny was detained on arrival in Russia after recovering from nerve agent poisoning in Germany.
# russia - Saturday 9 January, 2021
# Avalanche
# Avalanche
A criminal case into deaths by negligence as a result of safety violations has been opened.
# russia - Monday 28 December, 2020
# Snowstorm
# Snowstorm
Officials said that two people had been rescued by a passing vessel but hopes were quickly fading that more survivors could be found.
# russia - Saturday 26 December, 2020
# George Blake
# George Blake
Russia n news agencies reported Blake’s death today.
# russia - Friday 25 December, 2020
# Alexei Navalny
# Alexei Navalny
Western governments say Alexei Navalny was poisoned with the Soviet-era Novichok nerve agent
# russia - Wednesday 23 December, 2020
# Outgoing President
# Outgoing President
The bill affirms 3% pay raises for US troops and authorises more than $740 billion in military programmes and construction.
# russia - Thursday 17 December, 2020
# CAS
From The42
# CAS
And the country’s footballers will miss the World Cup in Qatar should they qualify too.
# Denial
# Denial
It’s widely suggested that Russia was behind Navalny’s poisoning in August.
# russia - Saturday 5 December, 2020
# Coronavirus
# Coronavirus
Health officials have opened 70 vaccine centres in Moscow.
# russia - Monday 9 November, 2020
# Azerbaijan
# Azerbaijan
Fighting between Azerbaijan and Armenia has been ongoing for six weeks in the context Nagorno-Karabkh region.
# US Election
# US Election
Western allies, including the German Chancellor and Taoiseach Micheál Martin – welcomed a fresh start with Washington.
# russia - Thursday 15 October, 2020
# Alexei Navalny
# Alexei Navalny
The decision was agreed upon among the 27 EU envoys to Brussels.
# russia - Thursday 8 October, 2020
# Moscow
# Moscow
Moscow quickly hit back that the accusations were “unacceptable” and amounted to “blackmail”.
# russia - Tuesday 6 October, 2020
# Alexei Navalny
# Alexei Navalny
The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons carried out its own analysis of samples taken from the Russia n opposition figure.
# russia - Saturday 3 October, 2020
# Armenia
# Armenia
Irish-Armenians are calling for the international community to intervene as deadly fighting continues in the Nagorno-Karabakh region.
# russia - Thursday 17 September, 2020
It marks the third time in six days the Typhoons have been scrambled in response to Russia n planes.
# Belarus
# Belarus
Protesters in Belarus are seeking the resignation of Alexander Lukashenko, denouncing his landslide re-election in August.
# russia - Sunday 13 September, 2020
# Minsk
# Minsk
“I came out for freedom,” one protester said today in Minsk.
# To The Polls
# To The Polls
The vote is seen as a key test of the Kremlin’s control of local politics.
# russia - Thursday 10 September, 2020
# Microsoft
# Microsoft
Tech giant Microsoft said today it has detected and thwarted a number of hacking attempts in recent weeks.
# russia - Monday 7 September, 2020
# Alexei Navalny
# Alexei Navalny
Chemical weapons experts have said Alexei Navalny was poisoned with a nerve agent.
# russia - Sunday 6 September, 2020
# Russia
# Russia
Foreign Minister Heiko Maas warned a lack of support for the investigation could force Germany to rethink the German-Russia n gas pipeline project.
# russia - Saturday 5 September, 2020
# Alexei Navalny
# Alexei Navalny
Alexei Navalny fell ill on a flight to Moscow and is now in an induced coma in a Berlin hospital.
# russia - Thursday 3 September, 2020
# Novichok
# Novichok
Alexei Navalny last month became the latest in a long line of Russia n defectors to be poisoned in suspicious circumstances.
# russia - Wednesday 2 September, 2020
# Kremlin Critic
# Kremlin Critic
Chancellor Angela Merkel gave a statement earlier to confirm that Navalny had been poisoned with Novichok.
# russia - Friday 28 August, 2020
# Alexei Navalny
# Alexei Navalny
Alexei Navalny’s allies insist he was deliberately poisoned and say the Kremlin was behind it.
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