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☆ Alexei Navalny is amusing himself by demanding a kangaroo, nunchucks, and a bottle of moonshine from his penal colony wardens
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-02 | by ( Kelly Mclaughlin | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Alexey Navalny said he's amusing himself in prison by making demands to his penal colony wardens. Navalny said he has asked for moonshine, a kangaroo, a megaphone, and more. Navalny, who is serving 11-and-a-half years in a penal colony in Russia, said all of his requests have been denied so far. As for knowing the service dogs' names, Navalny said penal colony staff told him that if he learned their names, he could befriend them and "use that for an escape." As for his request for a kangaroo, Navalny said officials told him double-crested marsupials are "prohibited by the SHIZO."

Persons: Alexey Navalny, Navalny, Vladimir Putin, — Organizations: Service Locations: Russia

☆ Opinion: The Russian official with a none-too-subtle message from the boss
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-02 | by ( Opinion Frida Ghitis | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

CNN —The world awoke Wednesday morning to the latest threat from Russia’s former president and prime minister Dmitry Medvedev. He’s like the fictional figure who appears out of nowhere, stares ahead with a blank face and slowly runs his finger across his throat: a none-too-subtle message from the boss. Or is he speaking for the Russian president? Shortly before he died, he had called Russia’s war against Ukraine “a fascist invasion.” The cause of death remains unexplained. With the war in Ukraine – a pivotal moment in Russia’s history – Putin remains at the center of the mafia-like government he has built.

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CNN —Police in Georgia have removed protesters from outside a hotel where relatives of Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov are allegedly staying, according to the public broadcaster First Channel. According to First Channel, the opposition United National Movement party held a protest outside the Kvareli Lake Hotel in northeastern Georgia on Saturday to express their anger following Georgian media reports that Lavrov’s relatives were staying in the hotel. Reporters on the ground said the situation outside the hotel had grown “tense” on Saturday after protesters pelted eggs at a minibus that left the hotel carrying Russian tourists. ‘Tense’ protest scenesVideos posted on social media showed violent scenes of police officers roughly grabbing protesters gathered outside the hotel. The protests came after Georgian media reported that Lavrov’s relatives had traveled to Georgia for the wedding of the brother of Lavrov’s son-in-law, Alexandre Vinokourov.

CNN —The daughter of jailed Russian opposition figure Alexey Navalny says her father’s health is deteriorating. His life and activism was the subject of an award-winning CNN Film which chronicled the investigation into a brazen assassination on him. In 2020, he was poisoned with the nerve agent Novichok – an act he and Western officials blamed on the Kremlin. After a five-month stay in Germany recovering from the Novichok poisoning, Navalny returned to Moscow in 2021 and was immediately arrested for violating probation terms imposed from a 2014 case. “We want freedom of election, we want freedom of all political prisoners, especially Alexey Navalny my dad – and foreign journalists,” she said.

☆ Opinion: Russia has stifled another Putin opponent. Here’s how the West might help him
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-28 | by ( Opinion Casey Michel | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

Editor’s Note: Casey Michel is the director of the Human Rights Foundation’s Combating Kleptocracy Program. While the West must continue to call for the release of those two high-profile political prisoners, it should not overlook Kara-Murza. US lawmakers in the US Congress have issued a range of congressional resolutions and individual statements highlighting Kara-Murza’s plight. The disjointed Western response to Kara-Murza’s plight only works to Russia’s advantage. It’s long past time to create a coordinating body to ensure that Western sanctions packages are aligned and airtight.

CNN —Jailed Russian opposition figure Alexey Navalny said he faces a new “terrorist case,” in what could mean decades more in prison for the outspoken critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin. His comments come as his daughter, Daria Navalnaya, told CNN that the Russian authorities were depriving her father of food. Navalny is currently serving a nine-year jail term at a maximum-security prison east of Moscow after being convicted of large-scale fraud by a Russian court last year. Alexey Navalny, pictured in Moscow on August 27, 2018, said on Wednesday that he faces a new "terrorist case," despite being imprisoned. Zhdanov also said that the investigator in the terrorism case was considering the killing of military blogger Vladlen Tatarsky as part of the charges.

CNN —Jailed Russian opposition figure Alexey Navalny has been experiencing severe stomach issues in prison, and members of his team fear that he may have been poisoned again. Navalny lost eight kilograms over the past 15 days in his isolated prison cell, his spokesperson Kira Yarmysh said in a Twitter post on Tuesday. “The lawyer says that an ambulance was called for Alexey Navalny on the night of Friday to Saturday because of an acute stomach pain. “This may sound like nonsense and paranoia to someone else, but not to Navalny after Novichok,” Kobzev tweeted on Tuesday. Investigative journalist Christo Grozev, who worked on CNN’s “Navalny” documentary, said he believes Putin has “motivation” to poison Navalny.

☆ Georgia's former president says he's dying in prison because of Putin, and calls on the US to save his life
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-07 | by ( John Haltiwanger | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Georgia's ex-president, Mikheil Saakashvili, said he is dying in prison. Saakashvili is asking the US and its allies to help save his life by applying international pressure. He also warned that Georgia's government is "sliding toward the Kremlin." Georgia 'sliding toward the Kremlin'In his Politico op-ed, Saakashvili described himself as a "political prisoner" who continues to "defend democracy against Putin and his allies." Saakashvili warned that Georgia and other countries in the region "have continued sliding toward the Kremlin" amid Russia's ongoing and unprovoked invasion of Ukraine.

☆ Hackers claim to have caused Russian websites broadcasting Vladimir Putin's annual address to go offline
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-21 | by ( Joshua Zitser | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Online broadcasts of Vladimir Putin's annual speech were interrupted on Tuesday. A pro-Ukraine hacking group has claimed responsibility for a DDoS cyberattack. Russia's state-run RIA Novosti news agency, meanwhile, said disruptions to the broadcast were the result of a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack. Though it is not clear who or what was behind the outages, at least one pro-Ukraine hacking group has claimed responsibility. Newsweek reported that another hacking group claiming to work on behalf of Russian opposition activist Alexey Navalny also claimed responsibility, saying it caused the disruption along with "other hackers."

☆ Russia orders the creation of 24 penal colonies in occupied Ukraine, says report
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-25 | by ( Joshua Zitser | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Russia has ordered the creation of 24 penal colonies in annexed parts of Ukraine, per Meduza. Conditions at penal colonies, which trace their roots to Soviet-era gulags, are famously harsh. The published decree outlines plans to create 12 new penal colonies in Donetsk, seven in Luhansk, three in Kherson, and two in Zaporizhzhia, Meduza reported. Ukrainska Pravda, a Ukrainian online newspaper, reported that there were 626 penal colonies in Russia as of November 2022. Ukrainian prisoners have previously been transported to penal colonies on Russian territory, according to research by Russian opposition politician Alexey Navalny and Gulagu.net, per Meduza.

☆ Ilya Yashin: Moscow court sentences Kremlin critic to eight and a half years for spreading 'false information'
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-09 | by ( Anna Chernova Uliana Pavlova Sugam Pokharel Ivana Kottasová | Anna Chernova | Uliana Pavlova | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

CNN —A Moscow court on Friday sentenced Kremlin critic Ilya Yashin to eight years and six months imprisonment, according to Russian state media RIA Novosti, in a blow to what’s left of the country’s opposition. It is unclear if Yashin’s prison sentence for spreading “false information” about the Russian army includes the time he has already spent in jail during court hearings. Yashin, pictured in a Moscow courtroom Friday, has been sentenced to eight years and six months behind bars. In closing remarks to the court on Monday, ahead of the verdict, Yashin made a statement addressing the judge, President Vladimir Putin and the Russian public. Navalny concluded by saying that he is proud of Yashin and that he and Russia will be free.

☆ Navalny's top aide says Ukraine war shows Putin is crazier than previously thought, warning the Russian leader is not 'in touch with reality'
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-28 | by ( John Haltiwanger | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Navalny's top aide told the Guardian that Ukraine shows Putin is crazier than they thought. But Navalny's top aide, Leonid Volkov, told the Guardian that Putin's handling of the Ukraine war has changed their view of the Russian leader. The war in Ukraine has largely made Putin an international pariah, while isolating Russia both economically and politically. But if Putin ever turns to negotiations to end the war, Volkov is hopeful that Navalny could be seen as a bargaining chip. In tweets via an intermediary, Navalny urged people to campaign against the Ukraine war and Putin "at every opportunity."

☆ Putin — who has jailed critics and rivals — took a nonsensical detour in his major foreign policy speech to rail against 'cancel culture'
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-27 | by ( Jake Epstein | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Putin delivered a nonsensical speech about Western "cancel culture" on Thursday in Moscow. What began as commentary about Russian foreign policy quickly transitioned to a rant. "The so-called cancel culture is basically a cancellation of culture that annihilates everything that is alive and creative. This is not the first time Putin has railed against cancel culture throughout his eight-month-long unprovoked invasion of Ukraine. Furthermore, he also lashed out against cancel culture in a recent rant about gender fluidity.

☆ No mention of opposition leader Alexey Navalny was too small to attract scrutiny from Putin's vast surveillance state, according to report
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-23 | by ( Erin Snodgrass | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

The Russian agency tasked with monitoring the internet was obsessed with dissident Alexey Navalny. The New York Times analyzed a trove of leaked Roskomnadzor records in a Thursday report. The Roskomnadzor records, though representative of only one of Russia's 85 regions, make clear that the authorities think Navalny remains a threat. Any articles, social media comments, or even websites where his name simply appeared in marginal links, were flagged by the agency, according to The Times. Roskomnadzor in conjunction with other facets of Russia's surveillance state also targeted anyone who supported Navalny, records show.

☆ Jailed Putin critic Alexey Navalny says recruiting prisoners as mercenaries for war in Ukraine makes him question if the Russian army even exists anymore
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-20 | by ( John Haltiwanger | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

This came in response to footage that appeared to show a mercenary group attempting to recruit prisoners. "As an inmate of a maximum-security prison, I too would like to give my opinion on the recruitment of criminals for the war," Navalny said in a statement released via Twitter. Navalny has been a fierce critic of Russia's unprovoked war in Ukraine, calling on Russians to stage mass protests against it. The war has been disastrous for the Russian military, which has suffered staggering troop losses since Putin ordered the invasion in late February. Many Russian prisoners are refusing this offer, a US official told reporters on Monday.

☆ Opozantul rus, Alexei Navalny, reținut la Moscova
▼ + stars: | 2021-01-17 | by ( Aliona Ciurca | ) www.zdg.md time to read: +1 min

Opozantul rus, Alexey Navalny a fost reținut la controlul pașapoartelor, la aeroportul în care aterizase. Avionul în care se afla politicianul rus a aterizat la un alt aeroport, decât fusese planificat. Alexei Navalny revine azi, 17 ianuarie, în Rusia, după tratamentul pe care l-a urmat în Germania, fiind otrăvit. Ulterior, a fost intentat un alt dosar. Departamantul instituțiilor penitenciare din Rusia (FSIN) a cerut instanței condamnarea lui Navalny pentru un termen de 3 ani de închisoare cu executare.

Persons: Alexei Navalny, Navalny, Yves Rocher, FSIN Locations: Rusia, Germania, Rusiei

☆ В Петербурге полиция проводит проверку из-за порванного портрета Путина
▼ + stars: | 2020-11-19 | by ( ) nokta.md time to read: +2 min

В Петербурге в здание совета муниципального образования «Смольнинское» приехала полиция после жалобы сотрудницы местной администрации на порванный портрет президента России Владимира Путина. Все время, когда мы уходим, они вешают портрет Путина. «Нормальные депутаты снимают со стены портрет Путина и меняют его на портрет Пушкина. Нормальные депутаты снимают со стены портрет Путина и меняют его на портрет Пушкина. На видео, которое опубликовала в своем твиттере депутат Серая, слышно, как один из полицейских говорит: «Поступило сообщение, что порвали фотографию главнокомандующего».

Persons: Владимир Путин, Диана Серая, Пушкин, Путин, Готовьте Юфереву, Александр] Пушкин, Алексей Навальный, Никита Юферев, Юферев, Владимир Владимирович Путин, Серая Organizations: Смольнинское, Совет, МО Locations: Петербург, Россия, Смольнинский, Смольнинское, РФ

Aleksei Navalnîi dezminte că ar suferi de pancreatită. Autoritățile ruse spun că el nu a fost otrăvit cu NoviciokMinisterul de Interne rus spune că Navalnîi suferă de pancreatită cronică și că agravarea sănătății lui nu a fost generată de otrăvirea cu Noviciok. Cu toate acestea, în data de 20 august, eu am fost absolut sănătos”, a comentat Navalnîi decizia autorităților ruse. Ministerul Afacerilor Interne mai susține că soția lui Aleksei Navalnîi, Iulia, ar fi spus medicilor ruși despre dietele soțului ei, scrie dw.com. Două zile mai târziu, el a fost transportat în Germania pentru tratament, fiind indus în comă.

Persons: Aleksei Navalnîi dezminte, Aleksei Navalnîi, ., Iulia, Navalnîi, Vladimir Putin, Хаузе Organizations: Interne Locations: Interne rus, Tomsk, Rusiei, Siberia, Moscova, Germania, Franța, Suedia

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