The Latest Breaking News from Alexei Navalny

Russia’s opposition leader Alexei Navalny said he hoped his prison memoir would be his ‘memorial’ and he wanted his family to get royalties if he was ‘whacked’

Excerpts of a memoir written by late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny revealed he believed he would die in prison, an event which finally occurred on February 16 at age 47. The New Yorker magazine published excerpts from the book, "Patriot", on Friday, ahead of its release on October 22.

Vladimir Kara-Murza and his wife, Evgenia, speak of his time in a Siberian jail

A Russian man has been charged in Poland over a hammer attack in neighbouring Lithuania on a top aide of late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny earlier this year, prosecutors said on Friday.

Exclusive: Key British-Russian activist tells Tom Watling that even if he and other opposition leaders are killed, others will come in their place to challenge Putin, as he thanked The Independent for reporting his plight

It is well known former US President Donald Trump admires the power strongman leaders wield.

Exclusive: Leonid Volkov tells The Independent’s Tom Watling: ‘The vast majority of anti-Putin, anti-war, opposition-minded Russians are still inside the country, and they’re not changing their minds’

Not long after Russian dissident Ilya Yashin was freed in a major prisoner swap with the West, he received a hero's welcome in Berlin, a growing centre for exiled Russian activists.

Trial of late Navalny's lawyers in Russia, accused of extremist group involvement, amid broader dissent crackdown.