Yashin is one of the few well-known Kremlin critics to stay in Russia after the start of the war. He was arrested in June 2022 in a Moscow park, convicted of spreading false information about Russian soldiers and sentenced to 8½ years in prison. Adv...
A lawyer for Ilya Yashin says the prominent Kremlin critic has been moved to an unknown destination from his prison where he was serving an 8 1/2-year sentence for criticizing Russia’s war in Ukraine.
A lawyer for Ilya Yashin says the prominent Kremlin critic has been moved to an unknown destination from his prison where he was serving an 8 1/2-year sentence for criticizing Russia’s war in Ukraine
Navalny also was the first opposition leader in Russia to receive a lengthy prison sentence in recent years. There would be others, heralding a crackdown on dissent that became more punishing with the invasion of Ukraine. In the three years since Navalny lost his freedom, multiple prominent dis...
Russian Dissident Expects to Be Sent to Prison SoonAleksei A. Navalny believes that the charges against him areabsurd but that they are also a form...Kramer, Andrew E
For Russia, the primary problem is the authoritarian regime, a dictatorship which at a single person’s whim can start a war, murder dissidents, take away all freedoms, and threaten the entire world. The war in Ukraine is a consequence of Russia’s primary problem and this is what the ...
Of all the Russian dissidents freed in the historic East-West prison swap on Aug. 1, Andrei Pivovarov spent the most time behind bars – three years.
in may 2012. save save ever since a protest movement fueled in part by social media erupted to challenge vladimir putin's re-ascension to the russian presidency, several opposition figures have found themselves arrested, charged and facing lengthy prison sentences . only the latest one actually ...
Two of the Russian dissidents who were freed from prison and arrived in Germany as part of last week's major East-West prisoner swap say they are already thinking about returning to Russia, but vow to continue political activism even from abroad.
In a final argument, Marechera identifies with the Soviet-Russian dissident writer Andrei Siniavskii. He extensively cites Siniavskii’s writings on Russian literature in order to define his own position: “My task as a writer was to take the veins of modernism, symbol-ism, futurism that ...