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Yulia Navalnaya, the wife of late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny speaks during the 2025 TIME100 Summit

Yulia Navalnaya says tests show her husband was poisoned

Yulia Navalnaya, the wife of late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, said two foreign laboratories had carried out tests on biological samples obtained from her husband that showed he was poisoned.

World • 17 Sep

Alexei Navalny died in an Arctic prison colony last month

Navalny supporters given prison sentences in Russia

A Moscow court has sentenced two university students to more than three years in prison each for their involvement with the late opposition leader Alexei Navalny.

World • 14 Mar 24

Alexei Navalny died in prison last month

'If they kill me it changes nothing' - Navalny in 2020

Alexei Navalny, the Russian opposition leader who died in prison last month, predicted in previously unpublished testimony that his death would alter "nothing" and other people would stand in his place.

World • 06 Mar 24

Yulia Navalnaya has vowed to continue her husband's fight

Navalny widow urges Russians to join election day protest

Yulia Navalnaya, widow of Russia opposition leader Alexei Navalny, has called on Russians to join an election day protest on 17 March to vote against President Vladimir Putin or spoil their ballots.

World • 06 Mar 24

Alexei Navalny died at the age of 47 in an Arctic penal colony on 16 February

EU leads call for probe into death of Alexei Navalny

A group of more than 40 countries have reiterated calls for Russia to allow an independent international investigation into the death of opposition leader Alexei Navalny in prison.

World • 04 Mar 24

Mourners seen attending the funeral ceremony for Alexei Navalny at the Borisovo cemetery

At least 91 arrested at tributes to Navalny across Russia

Police in Russia have arrested 91 people across the country at tributes to opposition leader Alexei Navalny on the day of his funeral, according to the rights monitoring group OVD-Info.

World • 01 Mar 24

Preparations at a Moscow church for Alexei Navalny's funeral tomorrow

Attempts to hire hearse for Navalny funeral 'blocked'

Allies of deceased Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny have said that attempts to hire a hearse to take his body to his funeral in Moscow tomorrow have been thwarted by unknown individuals.

World • 29 Feb 24

A memorial to Alexei Navalny outside the Russian embassy in Warsaw

Ireland, EU states seek sanctions over Navalny death

EU officials say that Ireland is among 12 member states to seek sanctions on Russia's prosecutors, courts and penitentiary officials over the death earlier this month of opposition leader Alexei Navalny.

World • 28 Feb 24

Alexei Navalny's spokeswoman said she did not know if the authorities would allow a funeral to be held 'the way the family wants and the way Alexei deserves'

Navalny's 'tortured' body handed over to his mother

The body of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who died unexpectedly in prison nine days ago, has been handed over to his mother in the remote Arctic city of Salekhard, his spokeswoman said.

World • 25 Feb 24

A woman lays flowers for Alexei Navalny at the Solovetsky Stone in Moscow

Russia threatening to bury Navalny on jail grounds - team

A spokeswoman for the late Alexei Navalny has said Russian authorities had told his mother he would be buried in the penal colony where he died, unless she agreed within three hours to lay him to rest without a public funeral.

World • 23 Feb 24

Alexei Navalny's mother Lyudmila Navalnaya delivered a video address in Salekhard in Russia today

Navalny's mother accuses Russia of secret burial plan

Alexei Navalny's mother Lyudmila has accused Russian investigators of planning to bury her son in secret without a funeral, and said she would not agree to it.

World • 22 Feb 24

Russia has denied involvement in the death of 47-year-old Alexei Navalny last Friday

UK sanctions heads of penal colony where Navalny died

The heads of the Arctic penal colony where Russian opposition figure Alexei Navalny was "detained and killed" will be banned from the UK and see their assets frozen under new sanctions announced by UK Foreign Secretary David Cameron.

World • 21 Feb 24

Donald Trump compared himself to Alexei Navalny implying that they both had faced politically motivated prosecutions

Navalny should not have returned to Russia - Trump

Former US president Donald Trump has said that Alexei Navalny was "a very brave man" who probably should not have returned to Russia, without assigning any blame for the Russian opposition leader's unexpected death.

US • 21 Feb 24

Alexei Navalny died on Friday at the penal colony north of the Arctic Circle where he was serving a long jail term

EU summons Russian diplomat over Navalny death

The European Union has said that it had summoned the Russian charge d'affaires in Brussels over the death in prison of opposition leader Alexei Navalny.

World • 20 Feb 24

Candles are seen at a vigil for Alexei Navalny outside the Russian embassy in Cologne, Germany

Russia to keep Navalny's body for 'at least two weeks'

Russian investigators will keep Alexei Navalny's body for "at least two weeks" to conduct an examination of the corpse, his spokesperson has said.

World • 19 Feb 24

Belgian Foreign minister Hadja Lahbib and Navalny's widow Yulia Navalnaya talk after the EU foreign ministers' meeting

EU pledges new sanctions as Navalny widow blames Putin

The European Union moved closer to new sanctions against Moscow over its war on Ukraine, as Yulia Navalnaya, the widow of Alexei Navalny, said President Vladimir Putin must be held accountable.

World • 19 Feb 24

Prithviraj Kambli puts final touches to a painting of late Russian opposition leader in Mumbai

Can a Russian opposition exist after Navalny?

The death of Alexei Navalny leaves Russians who support democracy without a recognisable leader. Just one month before a presidential election which will allow Vladimir Putin to continue as president until 2030, is there any prospect for an organised opposition movement within Russia?

Alexei Navalny • 18 Feb 24

Alexei Navalny died yesterday after a walk at the "Polar Wolf" Arctic penal colony in Kharp

Alexei Navalny team says body not in morgue

Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny's body is apparently not in the morgue where prison authorities said it was being kept, according to his team.

World • 17 Feb 24

Alexei Navalny joked during his court appearance a day before his death

Watch: In court yesterday, Navalny cracked jokes

On the television screen, jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny peered through a barred window, laughing and cracking jokes about his depleting funds and the judge's salary.

World • 16 Feb 24

Death reminder of 'repressive nature' of Russia - Martin

Alexei Navalny's death "underpins the lack of respect for the rule of law" in Russia, Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs Micheál Martin has said.

World • 16 Feb 24

Alexei Navalny was Russia's most famous opposition leader

Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny dies in prison

Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has died after collapsing and losing consciousness at the penal colony north of the Arctic Circle where he was serving a long jail term, the Russian prison service said.

World • 16 Feb 24

Alexei Navalny seen on a screen via a video link from prison in June

Navalny says in 'good spirits' after penal colony move

Jailed Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny confirmed his arrival at what he described as a snow-swept prison above the Arctic Circle and said he was in excellent spirits despite a tiring 20-day journey to get there.

World • 26 Dec 23

Navalny moved to Arctic prison colony - spokeswoman

Jailed Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, whose whereabouts were not known for over two weeks, has been moved to a penal colony in the Arctic, his spokeswoman said.

World • 25 Dec 23

Alexei Navalny seen on a screen via a video link from his penal colony in June this year

Navalny 'enforced disappearance' alarms UN expert

A United Nations rights expert has said the "enforced disappearance" of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was alarming, and demanded that Moscow release him immediately.

World • 18 Dec 23

Russian opposition figure Alexei Navalny arriving to listen to his verdict over a series of extremism charges at the IK-6 penal colony

Putin critic Navalny has 19 years added to jail term

Jailed Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny has had an extra 19 years in a maximum security penal colony added to his jail term in a criminal case which he said afterwards was designed to cow the Russian people into political submission.

World • 04 Aug 23