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Critics of Ukraine war among dozens who may be at risk in penal system, say campaigners and journalists

Lyudmila Navalnaya says she was told to agree to secret burial as Kremlin appears to fear funeral turning into political action

The anti-corruption campaigner and opposition leader leaves a legacy of ‘the struggle for Russia’s better future’.

Russia's most prominent opposition leader died in prison today, quite possibly murdered at Vladimir Putin's order.

Russia under President Vladimir Putin has been closing in on those who challenge the Kremlin

Fridman's lawyers said he was also denied a $36,500 monthly allowance to maintain his $79 million North London Mansion.

Mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin led an armed rebellion against the Russian military — and got away with it

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.

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.