Week-ending 1 January 2020 On 29 December 2020 the Investigative Committee opened a new criminal investigation against Aleksei Navalny on charges of large-scale fraud related to private donations made to…
Week-ending 25 December 2020 Photo: Wikipedia On 25 December 2020 police raided the home of Liubov Sobol, a lawyer who works for Aleksei Navalny's Anti-Corruption Foundation (now closed by the…
Week-ending 25 December 2020 On 21 December Aleksei Navalny, currently living in Germany after the attempt to assassinate him with Novichok, published a recording of a telephone call he claims was…
Week-ending 18 December 2020 This week Bellingcat and The Insider, in cooperation with Der Spiegel and CNN, published the outcome of a joint investigation that apparently implicates Russia’s Federal Security…
Week-ending 27 November 2020 This week the German authorities announced that other items that belonged to Aleksei Navalny, in addition to the water bottle found in his Tomsk hotel room,…
22 October 2020 By Sarah Hurst Sarah Hurst reviews: Toxic: A History of Nerve Agents, from Nazi Germany to Putin’s Russia by Dan Kaszeta, Hurst Publishers, London, 2020, 404pp, ISBN…
Aleksei Navalny. Source: Facebook Aleksei Navalny The Guardian, Thursday, 15 October 2020: The EU has announced sanctions against members of Vladimir Putin’s inner circle, including the head of Russia’s domestic…
Week-ending 25 September 2020 Aleksei Navalny The Guardian, Monday, 21 September 2020: Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has said in his first blogpost since emerging from a coma that western laboratories had…
Week-ending 18 September 2020 Aleksei Navalny On Monday, 14 September 2020, The Guardian reported that the Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has been taken off a ventilator and is able to leave his bed…
5 September 2020 By Kirill Koroteev, head of international legal practice at Agora International Human Rights Group Source: Moscow Helsinki Group [original source: VTimes] On the basis of the statement by…