With Putin's reelection all but assured, Russia's opposition still …
WEBDec 9, 2023 · Most Russian opposition figures are either in prison or in exile abroad. But they vow that they will still put up a fight against President Vladimir Putin.
How Putin's Russia evolved from tolerating to suppressing dissent | AP News
WEBMar 6, 2024 · Over the last decade, Vladimir Putin’s Russia evolved from a country that tolerates at least some dissent to one that ruthlessly suppresses it. Arrests, trials and long prison terms — once rare — are commonplace. Navalny, a popular opposition figure, died in a remote Arctic prison on Feb. 16, 2024.
Navalny dead: Most of Russia’s opposition is ... - Associated Press News
WEBFeb 19, 2024 · The Russian opposition lost its brightest star when politician Alexei Navalny died in an Arctic penal colony. He joined a long list of Kremlin political critics, turncoat spies and investigative journalists who have been killed in a variety of ways.
Meet the dissident Russians living the ‘nightmare from which it is ...
WEBDec 28, 2022 · Hundreds of thousands of Russians have left the country, some out of principle or because they were facing persecution, others to avoid Western sanctions or the risk of being drafted into the...
Zelenskyy has consolidated Ukraine's TV outlets and dissolved rival ...
WEBJul 8, 2022 · President Zelenskyy has consolidated all TV platforms in Ukraine into one state broadcast and restricted political rivals. Political opposition fears such civil liberty constraints could continue.
Navalny joins list of dead Putin critics as Kremlin stamps ... - NBC News
WEBFeb 16, 2024 · The death of Alexei Navalny deals a severe blow to Russia’s opposition, which President Vladimir Putin has ruthlessly silenced. Here are some of the Kremlin critics who have died, been jailed or...
Aleksei Navalny, Jailed Russian Opposition Leader, Receives 19 …
WEBAug 4, 2023 · A Russian court on Friday handed Aleksei A. Navalny, the jailed opposition campaigner, a new, 19-year sentence on charges of supporting “extremism” and ordered him imprisoned under the...
Can Freed Russian Dissidents Help Energize Opposition …
WEBAug 6, 2024 · Among Russians who oppose Vladimir V. Putin and his brutal Ukraine invasion, hopes are high that the Russian dissidents freed last week as part of a prisoner exchange with the West will breathe new...
Russia’s opposition is united against Putin but divided ... - NBC News
WEBAccording to interviews with observers at the congress, ideas were as varied as drafting a new Russian constitution to planning deadly attacks against President Vladimir Putin and his entourage in...
As Russia holds elections, Putin opposition fights to ... - ABC News
WEBMar 15, 2024 · Putin faces no real challengers, with anti-war candidates blocked from the ballot and virtually all leading opposition figures either in jail, exile or dead. Most independent media are shut down or driven abroad and criticism of the authorities is now effectively criminalized.