In Russia, Alexei Navalny, a Russian opposition leader who is called a personal enemy of dictator Vladimir Putin, recently died. And now the country has promoted to the rank of Deputy Director of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia Valery Boyarinev, whom human rights activists call the curator of torture of the oppositionist. About it … Read more
A photo capture of Alexei and Yulia Navalnaya taken from a video posted on the Instagram account navalny shows Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny before his flight at the Berlin Brandenburg International Airport BER in Schoenefeld, Germany, on 17 January 2021 Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny plans to return to Russia on a scheduled flight … Read more
The glance, objectively, is one that leaves its mark. And it’s not just because of the evocative power of that expanse of torches in the Roman evening. It’s just that there are really a lot of people – over three thousand people, the organizers of the event estimate – paying homage to Alexey Navalny in … Read more
“For us, for the country of Russia, for its political future, this death, this murder, will have irreversible consequences.” This is how Boris Belenkin responds to La Stampa, from his exile in the Czech Republic, immediately after learning of Alexey Navalny’s death. Belenkin, who in 2022 was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize with Memorial, recalls … Read more