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Alexei Navalny was arrested and jailed after returning to Russia last month

Russia says 'no legal grounds' to release Navalny

Russia has said there are no legal grounds to set Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny free, swiftly rejecting a call from the European Court of Human Rights for his immediate release.

World • 17 Feb 21

Hearing came a little over a week after Alexei Navalny was sentenced to serve nearly three years in jail

Navalny back in Moscow court on defamation charges

Russia's main Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny was back in court for allegedly defaming a World War II veteran, after being ordered to prison in another case that sparked global outrage and mass protests in his country.

World • 12 Feb 21

Russia humiliated the EU by announcing the expulsions during a rare meeting in Moscow between EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov

Germany, Poland, Sweden expel Russian diplomats

Germany, Sweden and Poland have each thrown out a Russian diplomat in retaliation for Moscow's expulsion last week of their diplomats for allegedly taking part in protests in support of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny.

World • 08 Feb 21

Russian opposition activist Alexei Navalny pictured in a Moscow court earlier this week

Moscow expels EU diplomats over Navalny protests

Russia has said it is expelling diplomats from Poland, Germany and Sweden for participating in unsanctioned demonstrations last month in support of jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny.

World • 05 Feb 21

Alexei Navalny was given a jail term earlier this week

Blinken raises Navalny, jailed Americans with Russia

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken voiced concern over jailed opposition figure Alexei Navalny and imprisoned Americans in a telephone call with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.

World • 04 Feb 21

Alexei Navalny was arrested on 17 January after returning from Germany where he had been recovering from a nerve agent poisoning in Russia

Kremlin critic Navalny sentenced to 3.5 years in jail

A Russian court has sentenced Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny to three-and-a-half years in jail after ruling he had violated the terms of his parole, but said that his prison term would be shortened for time he had served earlier under house arrest.

World • 02 Feb 21

A man is detained by police at a protest in Vladivostok

Thousands arrested at protests over Navalny jailing

Police have detained more than 4,400 people across Russia and blocked off the centre of Moscow in a massive clampdown on protests demanding the release of jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny.

World • 31 Jan 21

Alexei Navalny is shown on a monitor screen during the hearing at Moscow Region Court in Krasnogorsk outside Moscow

Navalny appeal rejected as court orders he stay in jail

Jailed Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny has told a judge that he has not been allowed to speak to his defence lawyer one-to-one since being detained on arrival back in Russia on 17 January.

World • 28 Jan 21

Riot police detain a protester in Saint Petersburg

Thousands arrested as Navalny supporters hold protests

Police detained more than 3,000 people and used force to break up rallies around Russia today as tens of thousands of protesters demanded the release of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny. Mr Navalny's wife was among those detained.

World • 23 Jan 21

Alexei Navalny being escorted out of a police station in Khimki, outside Moscow, on Monday

Moscow court delays Navalny war veteran libel trial

A Moscow court has postponed the start of the trial of detained Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny on charges of defaming a World War II veteran, his lawyers said.

World • 20 Jan 21

Alexei Navalny: From poisoning to prison

Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny is being held in a Moscow police cell after his dramatic return to Moscow almost five months after his poisoning suspect Russsian agent. Here is how he got there.

News Lens • 04 Feb 21

Alexei Navalny was arrested at Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport

Navalny urges Russians to 'take to the streets'

Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has urged people there to stage mass anti-government protests during a court hearing after his arrest on arrival in Moscow from Germany.

World • 18 Jan 21

Alexei Navalny fell violently ill during a flight from Siberia to Moscow in August

Navalny aims to return to Russia on Sunday

Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has said he will fly back to Russia from Germany where he has been convalescing after being poisoned.

World • 13 Jan 21

Alexei Navalny claims a FSB agent took part in the plot to poison him

Russian police arrest Navalny ally after 'trick call'

Russian police have raided the home of opposition activist Lyubov Sobol early this morning and took her in for questioning, Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny and his supporters said.

World • 25 Dec 20

Alexei Navalny has claimed that Russian President Vladimir Putin is personally responsible for the poisoning

Russia claims Alexei Navalny had pancreatitis

Russian officials have said metabolic problems and pancreatitis caused Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny to fall ill in August, ruling out findings by European labs that he was poisoned with Novichok.

World • 06 Nov 20

The sanctions have hit several of Vladimir Putin's senior aides

EU sanctions senior Putin aides over Navalny, Libya

The EU has sanctioned senior aides to Russian President Vladimir Putin, including the man known as his chef, over the poisoning of opposition figure Alexei Navalny and Kremlin meddling in Libya's civil war.

World • 15 Oct 20

Alexei Navalny was flown from Russia to Berlin last month after falling ill on a domestic flight in Siberia

Navalny's bank accounts frozen, says spokeswoman

Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny's bank accounts were frozen and his Moscow apartment seized as part of a lawsuit while he was recovering from a suspected poisoning in a Berlin hospital, his spokeswoman said today.

World • 24 Sep 20

Alexei Navalny pictured during his hospital stay

Kremlin critic Navalny discharged from Berlin hospital

Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who the West believes was poisoned with a Novichok nerve agent, has been discharged from hospital after 32 days.

World • 23 Sep 20

Alexei Navalny fell ill after boarding a plane in Siberia last month

Navalny team says poison found on water bottle in hotel

The nerve agent used to poison Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was detected on an empty water bottle from his hotel room in the Siberian city of Tomsk, suggesting he was poisoned there and not at the airport as first thought, his team said.

World • 17 Sep 20

Alex Navalny with his wife and two children in his Berlin hospital (Pic: Alexei Navalny Instagram/Getty handout)

Navalny says he is 'able to breathe' unaided

Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has said he is able to breathe unaided, in his first public comments after his alleged poisoning in Siberia last month.

World • 15 Sep 20

Navalny able to leave bed after Novichok poisoning

Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who the West says was poisoned with a Novichok nerve agent, is regaining mobility and able to leave his bed, the Berlin hospital treating him said.

World • 14 Sep 20

Alexei Navalny is being treated in Berlin's Charite hospital

German accusations over Alexei Navalny 'groundless'

Russian police say they will ask Germany to allow their officers to question opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who is being treated in Berlin for poisoning.

World • 11 Sep 20

G7 foreign ministers condemn Navalny 'poisoning'

The Group of Seven foreign ministers has condemned the "confirmed poisoning" of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny in the strongest terms, according to a statement released by the US State Department.

World • 08 Sep 20

Allies of Alexei Navalny say he may have been poisoned by a cup of tea he drank at Tomsk airport in Siberia

Navalny has come out of coma, Berlin hospital says

Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny has been removed from a medically induced coma and is responding to speech, Berlin's Charite hospital said in a statement today.

World • 07 Sep 20

Alexei Navalny fell ill on a flight in August

NATO: Russia must cooperate in Navalny poisoning probe

NATO allies have agreed that Russia must cooperate fully with an impartial investigation to be led by the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons into the poisoning of opposition leader Alexei Navalny, the alliance's chief said.

World • 04 Sep 20