By Steve Holland, Nandita Bose WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden called on Russian President Vladimir to release jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny during their phone call this week, White House spokeswoman Jen Psaki told reporters on Friday. Biden pressed Putin on a number of issues, including alleged election interference in the 2020 election, Ukraine sovereignty, […]
Russian anti-Putin campaigner Alexei Navalny has denounced his detention as “blatantly illegal” in an appeal hearing via video link. A judge heard, and then rejected, his appeal against detention for 30 days. He was arrested on 17 January for not complying with a suspended sentence. He had only just arrived from Berlin, where he spent […]
By Reuters Staff FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Joe Biden speaks about administration plans to strengthen American manufacturing during a brief appearance in the South Court Auditorium at the White House in Washington, U.S., January 25, 2021. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden spoke to Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday for the first […]
By Reuters Staff MOSCOW (Reuters) – A Russian woman who has become a symbol of the heavy-handed way the authorities cracked down on anti-Kremlin protesters at the weekend after being kicked to the floor by a baton-wielding policeman says she wants justice. Slideshow ( 2 images ) Margarita Yudina, 54, was among tens of thousands of people […]
Russia has accused Western countries of encouraging rallies in support of opposition leader Alexei Navalny. Tens of thousands defied a heavy police presence to join the rallies on Saturday. More than 3,500 were detained, monitors say. But President Vladimir Putin’s spokesman the next day claimed only “a few” people had turned out. European Union foreign […]
Russian police have detained more than 3,000 people in a crackdown on protests in support of jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny, monitors say. Tens of thousands of people defied a heavy police presence to join some of the largest rallies against President Vladimir Putin in years. In Moscow, riot police were seen beating and dragging […]
By Gabrielle Tétrault-Farber, Tom Balmforth MOSCOW (Reuters) – Police detained more than 200 people in Russia’s Far East and Siberia on Saturday as protesters defying bitter cold and a ban by authorities staged nationwide rallies to demand the release of jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny. Navalny called on his supporters to protest after being arrested last weekend […]
By Anton Zverev, Andrew Osborn MOSCOW (Reuters) – Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny was rushed to a court hearing inside a police station on Monday, a day after he was detained at a Moscow airport when flying home for the first time since he was poisoned last summer. The United Nations and Western nations told Russia to […]
By Reuters Staff MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia’s president Vladimir Putin will receive the Sputnik V vaccine against the coronavirus, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told a Russian state TV channel on Sunday. “He said he will be vaccinated, he made this decision and was waiting until all formalities are completed,” the spokesman was quoted as saying […]
