Alexei Navalny’s mother has been unable to recover his body after his death in an Arctic jail, a close aide to the dead Russian opposition leader says. Kira Yarmysch said his mother, Lyudmila, was told his body would only be handed over once a post-mortem examination had been completed. Mr Navalny’s team believes the anti-corruption…
Blink, and you might have missed it. In its 45-minute Friday night news bulletin, Russian TV devoted 28 seconds to the news about Alexei Navalny. His death was announced almost in passing. Just 28 seconds for the man who’d become Russia’s most prominent opposition figure and the country’s most famous prisoner. Alexei Navalny had, in…
Russian state media tend not to give much or any airtime to critics of the government, and their initial treatment of Alexei Navalny’s reported death continues in this vein. On state TV channels, the media outlets with the biggest audiences in Russia, there has been minimal coverage of Navalny’s death, and the first reports were…
There was a time when journalists used to ask Alexei Navalny why he was still free. The next question was often whether he feared for his life. When Navalny was poisoned with a novichok nerve agent in August 2020, they stopped asking. Now Vladimir Putin’s most dangerous political opponent has been pronounced dead by the…
According to Russian accounts, Alexei Navalny took a short walk at his Siberian penal colony, said he felt unwell, then collapsed and never regained consciousness. He was 47 years old. His condition had deteriorated in his three years in prison, where he complained of being denied medical treatment and had spent almost 300 days in…
Anti-corruption campaigner Alexei Navalny was long the most prominent face of Russian opposition to President Vladimir Putin. The 47-year-old blogger had survived poisoning attempts and years in some of Russia’s most notorious jails, after his group had exposed corruption at almost every level of the Russian state – frequently targeting President Putin himself. Even from…
Russian President Vladimir Putin has said he would rather a Joe Biden presidency over Donald Trump ahead of the US election this November. Mr Biden was the more experienced, predictable person, he said in remarks sure to raise eyebrows. Before Mr Trump’s first run for president in 2016, Mr Putin had praised him as “outstanding…
It was March 2022. The Russian rouble crashed, the value in London of corporate giants Gazprom and Sberbank fell 97%. Queues began to form at cash machines in Moscow. Oligarchs’ yachts, football teams, mansions and even their credit cards were seized. Russia crashed into a major recession. This was the immediate result of the most…
Vladimir Putin lectured, joked and occasionally snarled – but not at his host. Tucker Carlson laughed, listened – and then listened some more. During the American’s much-hyped encounter with the Russian president, his fixed, fascinated expression slipped a few times. Especially when Putin’s promise of a 30-second history lesson became a 30-something minute rant. But…
Conservative US media personality Tucker Carlson has released a controversial interview with Russian President Vladimir Putin. The more than two-hour video was filmed in Moscow on Tuesday, Carlson said. It’s the first time the Russian leader has sat down with a Western journalist since Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022. The interview…