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The secret network of tunnels under ‘paranoid’ Putin’s bunker

Russian president understood to have huge underground lair built beneath his palace by the Black Sea

The Independent UK

The secret network of tunnels under ‘paranoid’ Putin’s bunker

Russian president understood to have huge underground lair built beneath his palace by the Black Sea

The Independent UK

At least three Russia critics were targets of poisoning since 2021, claims new report

Kremlin critics include US-based non-profit head, Russian journalist who recently left her homeland, and former American envoy to Ukraine

The Independent UK

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Putin ‘doesn’t have enough Novichok for all his critics’, ex-state journalist says

Russian dissident Marina Ovsyannikova also discussed how Vladimir Putin could lose power

The Independent UK

Russian woman who left note on grave of Putin's parents convicted amid dissent crackdown

A Russian court has given a two-year suspended sentence to a St_ Petersburg woman who left a note on the grave of President Vladimir Putin’s parents that said they had “raised a freak and a killer.”

The Independent UK

UN expert calls for urgent medical care for Russia's jailed Navalny

The United Nations Special Rapporteur on torture on Wednesday called on Russia to provide jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny with "urgent and comprehensive" medical care following reports that his health wasd deteriorating.

Reuters

‘Justice is on our side, and Putin is old’: Navalny’s press secretary Kira Yarmysh

The novelist and press secretary to the Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny talks about imprisonment, survival and writing under the regime

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Scores of world figures urge Putin to free Navalny in open letter

Scores of famous figures, including writers and actors, have signed an open letter urging Russian President Vladimir Putin to free opposition politician Alexei Navalny and to end what they called his torture in prison.

Reuters

Alexei Navalny says he is facing jail in Russia beyond 2050

Jailed Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has said he faces imprisonment beyond 2050 on terrorism charges.

Evening Standard

Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny says he faces life in jail over terror charges

Allies of opposition leader already serving 11 years say charges may be linked to death of pro-war blogger

The Guardian - UK

Alexei Navalny says Russia investigating ‘absurd’ terrorism charges with potential 30-year sentence

Jailed Russian opposition figure Alexei Navalny says investigators have opened what he calls an "absurd" terrorism case against him.

The New Daily

Jailed Russian opposition leader Navalny to face new trial

Imprisoned Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny is set to face a new trial on extremism charges that he has described as a Kremlin-ordered effort to extend his time behind bars

The Independent UK

Navalny says he faces 30 more years in Russian jail in terrorism case

Jailed Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny said on Wednesday that investigators had opened what he called an "absurd" terrorism case against him that could see him sentenced to an additional 30 years in jail.

Reuters

Moscow court rejects appeal from cafe bombing suspect

A Russian court has rejected an appeal from a suspect in a bombing that killed a well-known Russian military blogger

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Russian woman loses appeal against detention over bomb that killed military blogger

A Russian court denied bail on Monday to a woman charged with terrorism over a bomb attack that killed a pro-war Russian military blogger earlier this month.

The Guardian - UK

These men can save Russia: we must not desert them

Letter: Vladimir Putin must not be allowed to let leading Russian opposition figures Alexei Navalny and Vladimir Kara-Murza die in jail, write Bernard Guetta, Timothy Garton Ash, Ezio Mauro and Adam Michnik

France 24

Last remaining voices of the Russian opposition are being silenced amid war in Ukraine

Voices raised against the Kremlin are increasingly being silenced as Russia this week handed jail sentences to two prominent opponents of the current regime: Russian-British national Vladimir Kara-Murza was handed a 25-year prison sentence on Monday and a Moscow court on Wednesday dismissed Ilya Yashin’s appeal.

Reuters

Russia crosses new lines in crackdown on Putin's enemies

With virtually all the Kremlin's opponents already jailed or in exile, and liberal press outlets and human rights groups forced to shut down, it might have appeared that years of repression in Russia had achieved their objective.

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Daily Mirror

Vladimir Putin critic Alexei Navalny kneed in the groin by brutal prison guards

Alexei Navalny received a knee blow to the groin after refusing to enter his cell when an unwashed homeless man was put there by prison warders, his lawyer said

Reuters

Russia's Navalny faces new charges after prison 'provocation' - lawyer

Russia's leading opposition figure, Alexei Navalny, faces the prospect of new criminal charges after in effect being forced to break the rules of the maximum security penal colony where he is being held, one of his lawyers said on Tuesday.

The Guardian - AU

Russia-Ukraine war at a glance: what we know on day 419 of the invasion

Putin visits commanders in occupied Kherson and Luhansk regions of Ukraine; WSJ reporter Evan Gershkovich appears in Moscow court

The Conversation

'Stalin-style' show trials and unexplained deaths of opposition figures show the depth of repression in Putin's Russia

Longtime Kremlin critic Vladimir Kara-Murza has been found guilty of treason and sentenced to 25 years in prison after what the journalist and activist has dismissed as a 1930s-style “show trial”.

The Week

Is Alexei Navalny being slowly killed in captivity?

Jailed Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny is being gradually poisoned behind bars, his allies claim.

The Independent UK

Opposition figure's sentence underlines Russian intolerance

The 25-year treason sentence imposed on prominent Russian opposition figure Vladimir Kara-Murza on Monday was a particularly severe show of authorities’ intensifying intolerance of criticism of the war in Ukraine and other dissenting opinions

Daily Mirror

Putin opponent in jail is suffering 'mystery illness that may be slow poisoning'

Alexei Navalny's spokeswoman tweeted that an ambulance was called last week to the maximum security IK-6 penal colony at Melekhovo, about 155 miles east of Moscow

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