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Putin says Russia 'firmly' defended its interests in 2021
This year Russia implemented a major crackdown on organisations and people critical of Putin -- starting with the jailing of his top critic Alexei Navalny in...
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Events that marked a tumultuous 2021 around the world
From the COVID pandemic to the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan and extreme weather, we look back on the key events of 2021.
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Press freedom, Belarus opposition or Greta for Nobel Peace Prize?
The highlight of the Nobel season, the prestigious peace prize always elicits a flurry of speculation. But predicting the winner is a giant guessing game.
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Navalny app gone from Google, Apple stores on Russia vote day
The app promoted an initiative that outlines for Alexei Navalny supporters which candidate they should back to unseat Kremlin-aligned politicians.
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'Not an election': Russians to vote after historic crackdown
So signs around Moscow are touting 'a million prizes' for voters who cast electronic ballots in the election, which looks set to hand United Russia another majority despite its unpopularity.
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Russia blocks 49 Navalny-linked websites: aide
Navalny, President Vladimir Putin's most vocal domestic critic, was arrested in January after he returned to Russia following months of treatment in Germany for a nerve agent poisoning he blames on the Kremlin.
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UN warns of worst 'cascade of human rights setbacks in our lifetimes'
"To recover from the most wide-reaching and severe cascade of human rights setbacks in our lifetimes, we need a life-changing vision, and concerted action," Michelle Bachelet told the opening of the UN Human Rights Council's 47th session.
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Putin signs 'extremist' bill that would bar critics from polls
Russia's legal information portal showed Putin had signed the bill on barring staff, members and sponsors of "extremist" groups from running in parliamentary elections.
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Russia seeks to outlaw Navalny movement
The closed court hearing is part of a sweeping crackdown on Putin's most prominent critic and his supporters after Navalny barely survived a poisoning with the Novichok nerve agent last summer.
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Navalny network disbands as gaunt Kremlin critic appears in court
During the hearing, which is part of an appeal by Navalny against a defamation sentence imposed in February for insulting a World War II veteran, the opposition figure said he had lost more weight but had started eating again.
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Kremlin critic Navalny says ending hunger strike
The announcement came after Navalny's personal doctors said on Thursday that he had received treatment at a civilian hospital and urged him to put a stop to his protest.
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Russia moves Navalny to prison hospital under Western pressure
The United States on Sunday threatened Russia with "consequences" if President Vladimir Putin's major domestic opponent -- who launched a hunger strike three weeks ago -- dies in jail, with Navalny's private doctors warning at the weekend he could pass away at "any minute".
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Russia says Navalny to be transferred to prison hospital
He was thrown behind bars in February for more than two years on old embezzlement charges, just weeks after he returned to Moscow from Germany where he had been recuperating from a near-fatal poisoning attack.
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Mass protests called across Russia to 'save Navalny's life'
The team of jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny on Sunday called for massive protests across Russia next week to help save the life of the hunger-striking opposition leader.
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Kremlin critic Navalny could 'die any minute': doctors
In March, President Vladimir Putin's most prominent opponent went on hunger strike to demand proper medical treatment for back pain and numbness in his legs and hands.
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Navalny ally jailed for two years for 'extremist' tweets
Pavel Zelensky, a cameraman for Navalny's Anti-Corruption Foundation, in October posted two tweets critical of the authorities after an independent journalist set herself on fire and passed away.
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Russian prison threatens to force-feed Navalny
It said Navalny, who last week said he had a cough and fever, had been transferred back to the prison barracks from its infirmary.
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Russia fines TikTok over calls for minors to join protests
The court said on its Telegram channel that the video-sharing platform had been found guilty of failing to remove information that violates Russian law and sentenced to an administrative fine of 2.6 million rubles ($34,000/28,000 euros).
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Jailed Kremlin critic Navalny goes on hunger strike
President Vladimir Putin's most prominent critic, who is serving a 2.5-year sentence in one of Russia's most notorious penal colonies, said he was losing sensation in both legs.
