The police took opposition leader Alexei Navalny away from passport control at Sheremetyevo airport immediately after his return from Germany, where he received treatment after being poisoned last summer, the BBC writes. As it became known later, the politician was arrested for 30 days. The police refused to tell Navalny ...

Opposition leader Alexei Navalny released a video entitled “I called my killer. He admitted everything." In it, the politician claims that he spoke with one of his potential poisoners, Konstantin Kudryavtsev. Allegedly, he actually confirmed that they planned to kill Navalny. About it…

Russian President Vladimir Putin held an annual press conference. It lasted over four hours. The BBC Russian Service has chosen the answers to the most important questions. Due to the pandemic, the format of the president's annual press conference had to be changed this year. Putin answered questions from his residence in ...

The results of a joint investigation by Bellingcat, The Insider and CNN with the participation of Der Spiegel showed that the assassination attempt on Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny in Tomsk was the work of a group of FSB operatives. Meduza writes about this. The authors of the investigation were able to identify these eight employees...

The US Congress condemns the poisoning of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny. This legislative body calls for decisive action by the United States and the international community - the corresponding resolution was published on the official website of Congress. The document states that the House of Representatives condemns the apparently deliberate poisoning of 20...

Alexei Navalny has filed a lawsuit against the press secretary of the Russian president, Dmitry Peskov. The filing of the claim was confirmed by the press service of the Presnensky Court of Moscow, the BBC writes. The Russian oppositionist referred to the news agency TASS under the headline "Peskov said that Navalny's accusations against Putin were inspired by the CIA, they are unacceptable." Navalny ...

The Russian oppositionist said that Novichok was used against him not only to kill, but also to intimidate others, writes Voice of America. Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny called on US President Donald Trump to join other world leaders in condemning banned chemical weapons, which...

Alexey Navalny gave his first big interview after the poisoning to Der Spiegel magazine. The most important thing from this conversation is quoted by Meduza. Next - from the first person. About my health I feel much better than I did three weeks ago: better every day. Not…

The Berlin Charité clinic announced that Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has been discharged. In total, he spent 32 days in a German hospital. The BBC writes about this. A press release published on the clinic’s website states that the oppositionist’s health has improved so much that doctors have found it possible to discharge him…

The publication “Project” and the associates of Alexei Navalny put forward a version that the politician could have been poisoned with Novichok even before traveling to the Tomsk airport. According to their information, traces of poison were found on a bottle of water that FBK employees found in a hotel room in…