In January, three lawyers who had worked for Navalny were found guilty of belonging to an “extremist” group and sentenced to terms of up to five and a half years in a penal colony.

MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russian dissident and Kremlin critic Leonid Volkov, a prominent ally of late opposition leader Alexei Navalny, was sentenced in absentia on Wednesday to 18 years in prison. The ...

In January, three lawyers who had worked for Navalny were found guilty of belonging to an extremist group and sentenced to terms of up to 5-1/2 years in a penal colony.

Navalny, the most prominent domestic critic of Russia’s President Vladimir Putin, died suddenly in February 2024 in an Arctic penal colony at the age of 47. He had been serving prison terms ...

Russia on Wednesday sentenced exiled opposition figure Leonid Volkov — the former right-hand man of late opposition leader Alexei Navalny — to 18 years in a penal colony under a litany of charges.

Russia on Wednesday sentenced exiled opposition figure Leonid Volkov -- the former right-hand man of late opposition leader Alexei Navalny -- to 18 years in a penal colony under a ...

A Russian activist who helped collect humanitarian aid for Ukraine and evacuate Ukrainians from the war zone was sentenced on Friday to 22 years in prison by a Moscow military court, the RIA state ...

Volkov, who was in charge of Navalny’s regional offices and election campaigns, left Russia several years ago under pressure from the authorities. He led Navalny’s Anti-Corruption Foundation ...

Courts in Russia have convicted one opposition figure in absentia and placed another under house arrest as Moscow continues its crackdown on dissent. Leonid Volkov, a close associate of the late… ...