Imprisoned Belarus activist resurfaces after no ... - Associated Press News
1 day ago · TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Imprisoned Belarusian opposition activist Maria Kolesnikova has resurfaced after more than 20 months without any communication with relatives or friends and met with her father, a human rights group said Tuesday. Kolesnikova, one of the most popular and charismatic figures who helped lead protests of Belarus ...
Imprisoned Belarus activist Maria Kolesnikova ... - Associated Press News
15 hours ago · TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Imprisoned Belarusian opposition activist Maria Kolesnikova is considering asking the country’s authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko for a pardon after more than four years behind bars, her father said Wednesday.. Alexander Kolesnikov spoke to The Associated Press a day after seeing his daughter at a prison near Gomel where the 42-year-old musician-turned ...
Thousands rally outside Georgian parliament to ... - Associated Press News
2 days ago · TBILISI, Georgia (AP) — Thousands of opposition supporters rallied Monday in Georgia’s capital in continuing protests against the ruling party’s declared victory in the Oct. 26 parliamentary election amid allegations that Russia helped rig the vote.. The protesters waved Georgian and European Union flags and gathered outside the Georgian parliament.
Navalny joins list of dead Putin critics as Kremlin stamps ... - NBC News
Feb 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...
Can Freed Russian Dissidents Help Energize Opposition …
Aug. 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...
Alexei Navalny: Dissent is dangerous in Russia, but activists ... - BBC
Opposition activist Vladimir Kara-Murza has been sentenced to 25 years for treason. Alexei Navalny, who was 47, and Vladimir Kara-Murza, 42, are very different men. Navalny was a...
As Russia holds elections, Putin opposition fights to ... - ABC News
Mar 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.
Meet the dissident Russians living the ‘nightmare from which it is ...
Dec 28, 2022 · Western publications and social media sites have been blocked online, forcing Russians seeking alternatives to the official propaganda to go underground using virtual private networks, or VPNs ...
Russia’s opposition is united against Putin but divided ... - NBC News
Russia’s opposition is united against Putin but divided over basically everything else. “Russians in exile never have been capable of forming an opposition force. There is infighting, distrust...
Ukraine war: Where are Russia's opposition leaders now? - BBC
Apr 17, 2023 · By far the most prominent opposition figure in Russia is now Alexei Navalny, who has accused Putin from jail of aiming to smear hundreds of thousands of people in his "criminal, aggressive" war.