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Alexei Navalny’s prison diaries show 10 days of soul-searching with zero regrets
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Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny’s posthumous memoir is a testament to resilience
Copies of the late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny's memoir entitled 'Patriot' are put display on the first day of sale in a bookshop in Berlin, Germany, Tuesday, Oct. 22, 2024. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)
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Excerpts from Russian opposition leader Navalny’s memoir show he knew he would die in prison
FILE - Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny listens to a question during an interview at the Echo Moskvy (Echo of Moscow) radio station in Moscow, Russia, Monday, April 8, 2013. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, File)
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4 Russian journalists accused of working for a Navalny group go on trial in Moscow
Russian journalist Konstantin Gabov accused of working for a group founded by the late Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny, stands in a defendant's cage of the Nagatinsky District Court in Moscow, Russia, on Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2024. (AP Photo)
international business
Forced closure of weekly newspaper spells the end for Russia’s independent print media
An issue of the Russian weekly newspaper Sobesednik, which temporarily ceased publication of its print version after the paper's publisher received the status of a "foreign agent", is seen in this illustration picture taken October 1, 2024. REUTERS/Evgenia Novozhenina/Illustration
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Infighting rocks Russia’s exiled opposition as Navalny allies accuse colleagues of foul play
FILE PHOTO: Exiled opposition activist Mikhail Khodorkovsky answers questions during a Reuters Interview in Berlin, Germany, March 24, 2022. REUTERS/Tobias Schlie/File Photo
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Navalny’s wife rejects finding he died from combination of illnesses
FILE PHOTO: Yulia Navalnaya, wife of late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, attends the Munich Security Conference (MSC), on the day of the announcement of the death of her husband by the prison service of the Yamalo-Nenets region where he had been serving his sentence, in Munich, Germany February 16, 2024. REUTERS/Kai Pfaffenbach/Pool//File Photo
politics
Canada sanctions 13 more Russians for role in Navalny’s imprisonment and death
<p>Canada is sanctioning 13 more Russians from the country's intelligence service, police force and its corrections system for their role in the poisoning, imprisonment and death of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny. A woman wears a photograph of deceased Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny during a service in St. Mary's Church on the occasion of his birthday, in Berlin, Tuesday, June 4, 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP-dpa, Christoph Gollnow</p>
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Alexey Navalny’s widow to meet with Justin Trudeau, Mélanie Joly in Ottawa on Tuesday
The widow of former Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny will meet with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Foreign Affairs Minister Melanie Joly Tuesday in Ottawa. Yulia Navalnaya, widow of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny meets Foreign Minister Espen Barth Eide, right, in Oslo, Norway, Monday, June 3, 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP-NTB Scanpix, Terje Pedersen
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Putin likely didn’t order death of Russian opposition leader Navalny, U.S. official says
A man holds a photo of Alexei Navaln at a rally on February 18, 2024 in front of the Russian embassy in Berlin, following the death of the Kremlin's most prominent critic Alexei Navalny in an Arctic prison. Navalny's death after three years in detention and a poisoning which he blamed on the Kremlin deprives Russia's opposition of its figurehead at time of intense repression and Moscow's campaign in Ukraine. (Photo by Odd ANDERSEN / AFP) (Photo by ODD ANDERSEN/AFP via Getty Images)
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Russian journalists placed in pretrial detention in alleged extremism cases
Russian journalist Sergey Karelin appears in court in the Murmansk region of Russia, Saturday April 27, 2024, after his arrest on “extremism” charges, which he denied. (AP Photo)
world
Russian-Canadian Pussy Riot activist sentenced to eight years for Ukraine ‘war fakes’ by Moscow court
FILE - In this Thursday, June 25, 2020 file photo, Pyotr Verzilov, prominent member of the protest group Pussy Riot waits for his court hearing in a court in Moscow, Russia. In 2018, the founder of the protest group Pussy Riot, fell severely ill and also was flown to Berlin, where doctors said poisoning was "highly plausible." He eventually recovered. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin, File)
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Moscow adds 56 more Canadians to sanctions list, ministry says
FILE PHOTO: A Russian state flag flies over the Central Bank headquarters in Moscow, Russia, August 15, 2023. A sign reads: "Bank of Russia". REUTERS/Shamil Zhumatov/File Photo
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Russia adds ‘LGBT movement’ to list of extremist and terrorist organizations
A law enforcement officer stands guard during the LGBT community rally "X St.Petersburg Pride" in central Saint Petersburg, Russia August 3, 2019. REUTERS/Anton Vaganov/File Photo
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Yulia Navalnaya says Putin is not Russia’s legitimate president
Yulia Navalnaya, the widow of Alexei Navalny, the Russian opposition leader who died in a prison camp, looks on after leaving the Russian Embassy on the final day of the presidential election in Russia, in Berlin, Germany, March 17, 2024. REUTERS/Annegret Hilse/File Photo
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Morning Update: As Putin claims election victory, Navalny widow Yulia Navalnaya emerges as Putin’s chief nemesis
BERLIN, GERMANY - MARCH 17: Yulia Navalnaya, widow of late Russian opposition figure Aleksei Navalny, stands in line with thousands of other expatriate Russian citizens waiting to vote at the Russian Embassy in Russian elections on March 17, 2024 in Berlin, Germany. Presidential elections in Russia, which are taking place without any meaningful opposition candidates allowed, will conclude today with President Vladimir Putin all but certain to be reelected. (Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images)
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As Putin claims victory in sham Russian election, Yulia Navalnaya steps in as his chief opponent
Yulia Navalnaya, widow of Alexey Navalny, waves as she stands in a queue with other voters near the polling station at the Russian embassy in Berlin, after noon local time, on Sunday, March 17, 2024. The Russian opposition called on people to head to polling stations at noon on Sunday in protest as voting takes place on the last day of a presidential election that was all but certain to extend President Vladimir Putin's rule after he clamped down on dissent. AP can't confirm that all the voters seen at the polling station at noon were taking part in the opposition protest. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)
canada
Evening Update: Pro-democracy Russians abroad face voter suppression as Kremlin holds election
People vote in Russia's presidential election in the Russian-controlled area of the Donetsk region of Ukraine, amid the Russia-Ukraine conflict on March 15, 2024.
world
From prison, Navalny ally Ilya Yashin accuses Putin of murder, vows to fight on
Russian opposition figure Ilya Yashin, who was sentenced in December 2022 to eight and a half years in jail for discrediting the Russian army fighting in Ukraine, appears on a screen via a video link from a colony outside Smolensk during a court hearing to consider a cassation appeal on his prison sentence, in Moscow on December 13, 2023. (Photo by Alexander NEMENOV / AFP) (Photo by ALEXANDER NEMENOV/AFP via Getty Images)