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Apr12021 by ShawnNo Comments

Navalny allies say he is misplaced weight in jail

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By means of Polina Nikolskaya and Anton Zverev | Reuters MOSCOW – Allies of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny mentioned on Thursday he had misplaced 8kg in jail ahead of even starting a starvation strike, one thing they blamed on guards depriving him of sleep even because the jail provider defended his remedy in custody. Navalny, one in all President Vladimir Putin’s maximum outstanding critics, went on starvation strike on Wednesday to check out to power the jail conserving him to offer him correct clinical handle what he mentioned was once acute ache in his again and legs. The opposition flesh presser whose unlock the West has demanded mentioned remaining week that guards have been waking him up each hour at evening and that his appeals for hospital treatment have been being omitted. On T...

Mar312021 by ShawnNo Comments

Navalny on starvation strike to protest remedy in Russia

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By way of Vladimir Isachenkov | Related Press MOSCOW — Imprisoned Russian opposition chief Alexei Navalny mentioned Wednesday he has began a starvation strike to protest government’ failure to offer correct remedy for his again and leg pains. In a observation posted on Instagram, Navalny complained about jail officers’ refusal to offer him the best drugs and to permit his physician to seek advice from him in the back of bars. He additionally protested the hourly exams a guard makes on him at evening, announcing they quantity to sleep deprivation torture. The 44-year-old Navalny, who's President Vladimir Putin’s maximum outspoken home opponent, used to be arrested in January upon his go back from Germany, the place he spent 5 months improving from a nerve-agent poisoning that he blames...

Mar22021 by ShawnNo Comments

Biden Drops The Hammer And Sanctions Russia For Navalny Poisoning

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The Biden management despatched a robust message to Putin via sanctioning Russia for poisoning opposition determine Aleksey Navalny. The State Department announced the sanctions: The USA joins the Ecu Union in condemning and responding to the Russian Federation’s use of a chemical weapon within the tried assassination of Russian opposition determine Aleksey Navalny in August 2020 and his next imprisonment in January 2021. We proportion the EU’s issues relating to Russia’s deepening authoritarianism and welcome the EU’s decision to impose sanctions on Russia beneath its new world human rights government. The U.S. executive has exercised its government to ship a transparent sign that Russia’s use of chemical guns and abuse of human rights have critical penalties. ...

Mar12021 by ShawnNo Comments

UN mavens urge impartial Navalny poisoning probe

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Through Vladimir Isachenkov | Related Press MOSCOW — Two best U.N. human rights mavens advised a world probe into the poisoning of Russian opposition chief Alexei Navalny and referred to as Monday for his instant unlock from jail. Agnès Callamard, the Particular U.N. Rapporteur on extrajudicial, abstract or arbitrary executions and Irene Khan, the Particular U.N. Rapporteur at the promotion and coverage of the precise to freedom of opinion and expression, mentioned Navalny’s poisoning used to be meant to “ship a transparent, sinister caution that this will be the destiny of any individual who would criticize and oppose the federal government.” “Given the insufficient reaction of the home government, the usage of prohibited chemical guns, and the plain trend of tried centered killings, w...

Feb82021 by ShawnNo Comments

EU nations oust Russia diplomats in Navalny tit-for-tat

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By way of Frank Jordans and Lorne Prepare dinner | Related Press BERLIN — Germany, Poland and Sweden on Monday every declared a Russian diplomat of their nation “personality non grata,” retaliating in type to ultimate week’s choice through Moscow to expel diplomats from the 3 Ecu Union nations over the case of opposition chief Alexei Navalny. Russia had accused diplomats from Sweden, Poland and Germany of attending an indication in give a boost to of Navalny, President Vladimir Putin’s maximum high-profile political foe. “We've knowledgeable the Russian Ambassador that an individual from the Russian embassy is requested to go away Sweden,” Sweden’s International Minister Ann Linde wrote on Twitter. “It is a transparent reaction to the unacceptable choice to expel a Swedish diplomat who...

Feb32021 by ShawnNo Comments

Russia rejects Western grievance over Navalny case

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Via Vladimir Isachenkov | Related Press MOSCOW — Russian government on Wednesday shrugged off the huge rallies in opposition to the jailing of most sensible Kremlin foe Alexei Navalny and rejected Western grievance as “hysterics” as activists reported greater than 1,400 new arrests within the crackdown on protesters. A Moscow court docket on Tuesday ordered Navalny to jail for 2 years and 8 months, discovering that he violated the phrases of his probation whilst getting better in Germany from a nerve-agent poisoning. The ruling in an instant ignited new protests in Moscow and St. Petersburg that adopted huge rallies over the last two weekends. Talking in court docket, Navalny denounced the accusations in opposition to him as fabricated and pushed by way of President Vladimir Putin’s “c...

Feb22021 by ShawnNo Comments

Putin foe Navalny sentenced to two 1/2 years in jail

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Through Daria Litvinova and Vladimir Isachenkov | Related Press MOSCOW — A Moscow courtroom on Tuesday ordered Russian opposition chief Alexei Navalny to jail for greater than 2 1/2 years on fees that he violated the phrases of his probation whilst improving in Germany from nerve-agent poisoning, a ruling positive to ignite extra protests around the nation. Simply sooner than the ruling, Navalny, who's essentially the most distinguished critic of President Vladimir Putin, had denounced the lawsuits as a useless strive through the Kremlin to scare thousands and thousands of Russians into submission. His crew known as on Russians to rally straight away in central Moscow in protest. The ruling got here in spite of large protests throughout Russia during the last two weekends and Western ca...

Jan312021 by ShawnNo Comments

Russia arrests over 4,500 at broad protests backing Navalny

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By way of Jim Heintz and Vladimir Isachenkov | Related Press MOSCOW — Chanting slogans in opposition to President Vladimir Putin, tens of hundreds took to the streets Sunday throughout Russia to call for the discharge of jailed opposition chief Alexei Navalny, maintaining national protests that experience rattled the Kremlin. Greater than 4,500 other people have been detained via police, in keeping with a tracking crew, and a few have been overwhelmed. Russian government fixed an enormous effort to stem the tide of demonstrations after tens of hundreds rallied around the nation closing weekend within the greatest, maximum fashionable display of discontent that Russia had observed in years. In spite of threats of prison phrases, warnings to social media teams and tight police cordons, th...

Jan262021 by ShawnNo Comments

Biden, in first name with Putin, presses on Navalny, treaty

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By means of Jonathan Lemire and Matthew Lee | Related Press WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden had his first name with Vladimir Putin on Tuesday, the White Area and Kremlin mentioned. U.S. officers mentioned Biden raised considerations in regards to the arrest of opposition determine Alexei Navalny whilst urgent the Russian president on his country’s involvement in a large cyberespionage marketing campaign and bounties on American troops in Afghanistan. On a good be aware, the 2 presidents agreed to have their groups paintings urgently to finish an extension of New START, the closing closing U.S.-Russian palms keep watch over treaty, earlier than it expires subsequent month. “Within the nearest days, the events will whole the important procedures that can be sure additional functioning” o...

Jan222021 by ShawnNo Comments

Russian government transfer to stymie Navalny protests

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Via Daria Litvinova | Related Press MOSCOW — Government in Russia have taken elaborate measures to curb protests towards the jailing of opposition chief Alexei Navalny, deliberate by way of his supporters for Saturday in additional than 60 Russian towns. Navalny’s pals in Moscow and different areas were detained within the lead-up to the rallies. Opposition supporters and impartial newshounds were approached by way of law enforcement officials with professional warnings towards protesting. Universities and faculties in numerous Russian areas have recommended scholars to not attend rallies, with some pronouncing they could also be topic to disciplinary motion, together with expulsion. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov mentioned Friday that “it is just herbal that there are warnings … in ...