Three lawyers who once represented the late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny have been jailed in Russia as part of the Kremlin’s crackdown on dissent that has reached levels unseen since Sovie

Arrested in 2023, the lawyers were charged with extremism for relaying messages from Alexei Navalny while he was in prison before his death.

Three lawyers for Alexey Navalny, the Kremlin critic who died last year in an Arctic prison, have been found guilty by a Russian court of belonging to an extremist group and jailed for several years.

The United States on Friday condemned Russia's jailing of three members of late opposition leader Alexei Navalny's legal team as a new effort by Moscow to stamp out dissent.

Three lawyers for the late opposition leader Alexei Navalny were sentenced by a Russian court for alleged extremist activity. The closed-door trial has drawn criticism for repressing dissent. Human rights groups and the U.

Russia on Friday sentenced three lawyers who had defended Alexei Navalny to several years in prison for bringing messages from the late opposition leader from prison to the outside world.

A Russian court handed down prison sentences of between 42 and 66 months Friday to three lawyers of the late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny after they were convicted of aiding his Anti Corruption Foundation.

Lawyers who represented the late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny are sentenced in a Kremlin crackdown on dissent at levels unseen since Soviet times.

The trio -- Vadim Kobzev, Alexei Liptser and Igor Sergunin ... to a "terrorists and extremists" blacklist. Moscow in 2021 banned Navalny's Anti-Corruption Foundation, known for investigations ...

(The grandmother was religious and quietly anti-Soviet; Navalny recalls a notable incident in which she responded to a relative’s boast of having seen the mummified Lenin in Moscow with, “Well, why didn’t you spit in his face?” Young Alexei ...

Fico met Putin in Moscow in late December to discuss gas and the war in Ukraine after Kyiv decided not to allow Russian gas flows through Ukraine from 1 January.