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An associate of the late Aleksei Navalny claims a prisoner swap involving the Russian opposition leader was in the final stages before he died in a remote Siberian prison.
Russian media reports said on February 26 that police detained oligarch Yury Antipov in an unspecified fraud case.
At least 32 people mourning the death of Russian opposition leader Aleksei Navalny and marking the anniversary of Moscow's full-scale invasion of Ukraine were detained in Russia on February 24.
The body of Russian opposition leader Aleksei Navalny has been handed over to his mother, according to Ivan Zhdanov, the former director of Navalny’s Anti-Corruption Foundation.
A group of leading Russian public figures has urged the authorities to immediately release the body of outspoken Kremlin critic Aleksei Navalny to his family after he died in prison a week ago.
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian has said his country has frozen its membership in the Russian-led Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) as Yerevan continues to distance itself from Moscow amid a souring of bilateral relations.
Britain has expanded its sanctions against Russian companies and individuals and entities outside Russia that are suspected of aiding in the circumvention of existing sanctions, the U.K. government said on February 22.
A court in Moscow on February 22 rejected a lawsuit filed by imprisoned Kremlin critic Vladimir Kara-Murza that accused the Investigative Committee of inaction in investigating his suspected poisonings.
Ukraine's military has acknowledged it struck a training ground in occupied Kherson where Russian troops were preparing for an assault on Ukraine's bridgehead at Krynka on the left bank of the Dnieper River, the second time this week a strike has killed scores of Russian personnel.
A court in Russia's Far Eastern Region of Khabarovsk region on February 22 declared a movement supporting the region's imprisoned former governor, Sergei Furgal, as extremist.
Police officers gave summonses to six men arrested for laying flowers in St. Petersburg in memory of Kremlin opponent Aleksei Navalny, who died last week at an Arctic prison camp, Rotunda website reports.
Russia's Supreme Court on February 21 threw out anti-war presidential candidate Boris Nadezhdin's appeal of the Central Election Commission's decision to bar him from next month's presidential election.
Friends of noted Russian blogger Aleksandr Morozov said on February 21 that he committed suicide after citing unnamed sources online saying that Russian troops might have lost up to 16,000 troops while fighting for the Ukrainian city of Avdiyivka. ru
The Russian weekly Sobesednik has dedicated part of its latest issue, including the front page, to Kremlin opponent Aleksei Navalny, whose death in a remote Arctic prison camp was announced on February 16.
Russia has labeled Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty as an "undesirable organization," according to a registry maintained by the country's Justice Ministry, exposing its journalists and others working with the organization, as well as its donors or those who are interviewed by it, to criminal charges.
A Moscow court on February 20 issued arrest warrants for two self-exiled Kremlin critics -- economist Konstantin Sonin and politician Leonid Gozman -- on a charge of spreading false information about Russian troops involved in Moscow's ongoing invasion of Ukraine.
The Amsterdam Court of Appeals on February 20 rejected Russia’s appeal against a 2014 order by an arbitration tribunal in The Hague to pay $50 billion, a sum that has risen to more than $60 billion with interest, to shareholders of the defunct Yukos oil group.
Russian President Vladimir Putin promoted the deputy director of Russia's Federal Penitentiary Service, Valery Boyarinev, to the rank of colonel general just three days after the death of Kremlin critic Aleksei Navalny in a remote Arctic prison, an associate of Navalny said on February 20.
Russia's FSB security service on February 20 said it had arrested a woman with dual U.S.-Russian citizenship on suspicion of treason for funding the Ukrainian Army, Russian state media reported.
The exiled wife of Kremlin critic Aleksei Navalny has issued a defiant statement vowing to "continue our fight for our country" and urging support ahead of a meeting with EU leaders, as domestic and international outrage mounts over Navalny's death in custody last week.
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