By Dasha Litvinova and Katie Marie Davies | Associated Press Under a heavy police presence, thousands of people bade farewell Friday to opposition leader Alexei Navalny at his funeral in …
By Anna Chernova, Sebastian Shulka, Christian Edwards and Jennifer Hansler | CNN Negotiations to release Russia’s opposition leader Alexey Navalny in a prisoner swap had reached their “final stage” just before his …
A prisoner eats soup, left. No escaping the Gulag, right. The Gulags were a repressive system of forced labor camps in the Soviet Union that cost the lives of millions …
Associated Press MOSCOW — Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny on Tuesday released a sardonic statement about his transfer to a Arctic prison colony nicknamed the “Polar Wolf,” his first appearance …
Associated Press MELEKHOVO, Russia — A Russian court convicted imprisoned opposition leader Alexei Navalny on charges of extremism and sentenced him to 19 years in prison on Friday. Navalny is …