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ALEXEI NAVALNY

A makeshift memorial for late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny in Amsterdam's Frederiksplein Square on Monday marks two years since his death in prison.
WORLD / Politics
Feb 17, 2026
Russian poisonings aim to kill ¡ª and send a message
The finding that Alexei Navalny was killed with a rare toxin has revived the specter of Moscow¡¯s use of poison against opponents ¡ª a hallmark of its secret services, experts say.
Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny, who was arrested during a March 2017 anti-corruption rally, gestures during an appeal hearing at a court in Moscow that same month.
WORLD / Politics
Feb 15, 2026
European allies say Navalny was poisoned by dart frog toxin
The Russian government, which has repeatedly denied any responsibility for Navalny¡¯s death, dismissed the latest allegations as ¡®a Western propaganda hoax.¡¯
A person lays flowers at the grave of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny while marking the first anniversary of his death, at a cemetery in Moscow on Feb. 16.
WORLD
Sep 17, 2025
Yulia Navalnaya says foreign tests show her husband was poisoned
Opposition leader Alexei Navalny died suddenly at the age of 47 on Feb. 16, 2024, in a Russian prison in the Arctic Circle.
Journalists Sergei Karelin, Antonina Favorskaya and Artem Kriger, accused of taking part in the activities of an "extremist" organization founded by late opposition politician Alexei Navalny, attend a court hearing in Moscow on Tuesday.
WORLD / Politics
Apr 16, 2025
Russian journalists jailed for 5? years for alleged extremist ties to Navalny
Moscow has intensified pressure on domestic and foreign reporters since the start of its war in Ukraine.
People pay tribute to late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny at his grave at the Borisovo cemetery, marking the first anniversary of his death while incarcerated in a remote Arctic penal colony, in Moscow on Sunday.
WORLD / Politics
Feb 17, 2025
Russians risk reprisals to visit Navalny grave on death anniversary
Russia has still not fully explained the circumstances of his death.
A portrait of Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny is placed amid flowers at his grave at the Borisovskoye cemetery in Moscow on March 2, 2024.
WORLD / Politics
Jan 23, 2025
Navalny¡¯s lawyer regrets she couldn¡¯t stop his return to Moscow
Olga Mikhailova says she feels she ¡°did not push hard enough¡± to change the mind of the Russian opposition leader, who eventually died in an Arctic penal colony.
Journalists Konstantin Gabov (far left), Antonina Favorskaya (center left), Artem Kriger (center right) and Sergei Karelin, accused of taking part in the activities of an "extremist" organization founded by late opposition politician Alexei Navalny, stand inside an enclosure for defendants before a court hearing in Moscow on Wednesday.
WORLD / Politics
Oct 3, 2024
Russia tries four journalists for links to Navalny team
The cases highlight the increasingly precarious position of journalists inside Russia.
U.S. President Joe Biden holds the arm of Elizabeth Whelan, sister of Paul Whelan, as he delivers remarks on a prisoner swap that included the release of Paul Whelan from Russia, in the East Room at the White House in Washington, on Thursday.
WORLD
Aug 2, 2024
The Russia prisoner swap was years in the making for the U.S.
Talks that led to the prisoner exchange started more than two years ago and almost didn¡¯t happen.
Mourners at the grave of Alexei Navalny in Moscow on Sunday
WORLD / Politics
Mar 18, 2024
¡®Not alone¡¯: Navalny supporters find solace in election gatherings
The death of Putin¡¯s top critic, Alexei Navalny ¡ª which allies have blamed on the Kremlin ¡ª triggered outrage both abroad and at home.
Leonid Volkov, who was chief of staff to Alexei Navalny, speaks during an interview in Vilnius, Lithuania, in 2021.
WORLD / Politics
Mar 13, 2024
Top Navalny aide attacked with hammer outside home in Lithuania
At least one assailant smashed Leonid Volkov¡¯s car window, sprayed him with tear gas and began beating him with the hammer.
Alexei Navalny looks out of the window of his cell in a detention center in Moscow on Dec. 8, 2011.
WORLD / Politics
Mar 12, 2024
Putin¡¯s opposition: Dead, jailed or exiled
Putin¡¯s staunchest critic of the last decade, Alexei Navalny, died last month in a prison colony. Dozens of others remain behind bars.
Alexei Navalny delivers remarks during his election campaign in Moscow on Aug. 1, 2013. Russian authorities vilified the opposition leader with a viciousness that suggested he was more influential than Moscow would admit. Little has changed since he died.
WORLD / Politics
Mar 4, 2024
Kremlin seeks to suppress Navalny¡¯s influence, in death as in life
Russian authorities have vilified late opposition leader Alexei Navalny with a viciousness that suggested he was more influential than Moscow would admit.
The body of late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny is seen during the funeral service at the Mother of God Quench My Sorrows Church in Moscow's Maryino district on Friday.
WORLD / Politics
Mar 2, 2024
Navalny buried in Moscow as thousands of defiant mourners turn out
Crowds of mourners in Moscow chanted the Russian opposition leader¡¯s name and blamed authorities for his death.
A vigil is held for Russian activist Alexei Navalny in Munich on Feb. 16.
WORLD / Politics
Feb 27, 2024
Prisoner swap deal for Alexei Navalny was in works when he died
The U.S. State Department said in early December it made a ¡°new and significant¡± proposal to Russia, but Moscow had rejected the offer.
A woman visits a makeshift memorial for late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny in Moscow on Friday.
WORLD
Feb 25, 2024
Navalny¡¯s ¡®tortured¡¯ body handed over to his mother
Family and supporters of Navalny have accused Vladimir Putin of having him killed, an accusation the Kremlin rejects.
The mother of late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, Lyudmila Navalnaya, delivers a video address in Salekhard, in the Russia's Yamal-Nenets region, in this image taken from video released Thursday.
WORLD / Politics
Feb 24, 2024
Russia threatening to bury Navalny on prison grounds, team says
Several leading Russian cultural figures and activists have called on authorities to release the opposition leader¡¯s body to his mother.
U.S. President Joe Biden embraces Yulia Navalnaya, the wife of Alexei Navalny, in San Francisco, on Thursday.
WORLD / Politics
Feb 23, 2024
Biden holds poignant meeting with Navalny¡¯s widow and daughter
The White House also announced fresh sanctions against Russia over the Kremlin opposition leader¡¯s death.
Demonstrators protest the death of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny in front of the Russian Embassy in Berlin on Feb. 16.
EDITORIALS
Feb 23, 2024
Vladimir Putin must be shown the limits of his power
Navalny¡¯s death deprives Russia of its most thoughtful and powerful opposition to President Vladimir Putin and his criminal clique.
A person lights a candle by a portrait of late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who died in a Russian Arctic prison last week, at the entrance of Russian Embassy in Pristina, Kosovo, on Tuesday.
WORLD / Politics
Feb 21, 2024
U.S. to impose ¡®major sanctions¡¯ on Russia over Navalny death
The latest sanctions on Moscow will target a range of items, including its defense and industrial bases.
Yulia Navalnaya, wife of late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, attends the Munich Security Conference, on the day it was announced that Alexei Navalny died in prison on Friday.
WORLD / Politics
Feb 20, 2024
Navalny widow vows to take up the fight for Russia¡¯s ¡®freedom¡¯
Navalnaya¡¯s address came shortly before she met EU foreign ministers in Brussels, where she had been invited.
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Rising sex tourism exposes loopholes in Japan¡¯s anti-prostitution law
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Japan unveils new overtourism countermeasures
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South Korea couple beat same-sex barriers to parenthood
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