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Person of the Week: Aleksandr Shabarchin, imprisoned for peaceful activism, recognised by Amnesty International as a prisoner of conscience

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Post published:October 26, 2020
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Week-ending 23 October 2020 Aleksandr Shabarchin Amnesty International issued a statement on 19 October 2020 calling for the immediate and unconditional release of Aleksandr Shabarchin, sentenced in Perm to two…

Person of the Week: Aleksei Navalny. EU announces sanctions as Western security agencies conclude FSB responsible for his poisoning

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Post published:October 18, 2020
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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…

Person of the Week: Irina Slavina

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Post published:October 11, 2020
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Week-ending 9 October 2020 RFE/RL, Tuesday, 6 October 2020: Hundreds of friends, relatives, and colleagues have bid farewell to Russian journalist Irina Slavina, who died after setting herself on fire…

Person of the Week. Irina Slavina: “I ask you to blame the Russian Federation for my death.”

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Post published:October 3, 2020
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Week-ending 2 October 2020 Photo of Irina Slavina: Agora Irina Slavina, a journalist in Nizhny Novgorod and chief editor at the Koza Press news website, died on 2 October 2020…

Person of the Week: Aleksei Navalny

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Post published:September 27, 2020
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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…

Person of the Week: Aleksei Navalny

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Post published:September 18, 2020
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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…

Person of the Week: Aleksei Navalny

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Post published:September 11, 2020
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Week-ending 11 September 2020 On Monday, 7 September 2020, The Guardian reported that Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny had been taken out of an induced coma and was responding to speech, according to the…

Person of the Week: Aleksei Navalny

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Post published:September 4, 2020
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Week-ending 4 September 2020 On Wednesday, 2 September 2020, the German authorities said Aleksei Navalny had been poisoned with a substance from the novichok family, The Guardian reported. Angela Merkel has demanded answers from…

Person of the Week: Aleksei Navalny

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Post published:August 30, 2020
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Week-ending 28 August 2020 On Monday, 24 August 2020, The Guardian reported that tests indicated Aleksei Navalny was the victim of a poisoning and he was being treated with atropine, the same antidote…

Person of the Week: Aleksei Navalny, opposition activist in a coma after suspected poisoning

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Post published:August 21, 2020
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Week-ending 21 August 2020 Photo: By Evgeny Feldman - via Wikipedia On Thursday, 20 August 2020, The Guardian reported opposition leader Aleksei Navalny was in a coma and on a ventilator in…