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New York (AFP) - Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny's posthumous memoir will be released in October, chronicling his 2020 nerve agent poisoning and life in a brutal Russian prison camp, the US publisher of the book said Thursday. The key opponent of Russian leader Vladimir Putin died in February in a penal colony, where he had been held in harsh conditions, sparking worldwide condemnation. Titled "Patriot," the book will be released on October 22, publisher Knopf said in a statement, while his widow confirmed the book would also be issued in Russian. "It is the full story of his life: his youth, h...
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Warsaw (AFP) - Allies of late Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny said Monday that a deal to free him as part of a prisoner swap had nearly been reached when he died in prison. The 47-year-old Kremlin critic died on February 16 in an Arctic prison after spending more than three years behind bars, prompting outrage and condemnation from Western leaders and his supporters. Russian President Vladimir Putin "was offered to exchange FSB officer and killer Vadim Krasikov, who is serving time for murder in Berlin, for two American citizens and Alexei Navalny," ally Maria Pevchikh said. "I ha...
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San Francisco (AFP) - President Joe Biden had a private, emotional meeting with the widow and daughter of Alexei Navalny in California on Thursday, as his administration announced fresh sanctions against Russia over the death of the Kremlin opposition leader. The visit at a hotel in San Francisco came as the White House backed Navalny's mother in her fight to retrieve her son's body, which Russian authorities have refused to release days after he died in an Arctic prison. Navalny's team says the 47-year-old, President Vladimir Putin's most outspoken critic, was murdered. Biden could be seen hu...
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San Francisco (AFP) - President Joe Biden said Thursday he met privately in California with the widow and daughter of Kremlin opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who died last week in a Russian prison. After meeting with Yulia and Dasha Navalnaya in San Francisco, Biden told reporters that the late opponent to President Vladimir Putin was "a man of incredible courage." He said that Yulia Navalnaya and her daughter, who studies at Stanford University in California, "are emulating that." The widow is "going to continue the fight," he said. "She's not giving up." Biden also reaffirmed a plan to unv...
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Greenville (United States) (AFP) - Donald Trump on Tuesday compared his own legal troubles with the persecution of Russian opposition figure Alexei Navalny, who died in prison last week. The former US president and current frontrunner for the 2024 nomination again refused to criticize Russian leader Vladimir Putin over Navalny's unexplained death, despite being offered the chance during a town hall meeting in South Carolina. Navalny died suddenly at age 47 in an Arctic prison, shocking Russia's exiled opposition as well as the West, where leaders, including US President Joe Biden, have blamed ...
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Moscow (AFP) - The United States will announce fresh sanctions on Russia on Friday over the death in prison of opposition leader Alexei Navalny, as a string of European governments summoned Russian diplomats. Russian President Vladimir Putin's main political opponent died in his penal colony on Friday, Russian authorities said. His team says the 47-year-old was murdered. The US is set to announce a "major sanctions package to hold Russia accountable" and respond to the "vicious and brutal war that has now raged on for two years", National Security Council spokesman John Kirby told reporters Tu...
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Washington (AFP) - US President Joe Biden is "considering additional sanctions" on Moscow after the death of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny in an Arctic prison, he said Monday. "We already have sanctions, but we are considering additional sanctions, yes," said Biden, who has already directly blamed Russian President Vladimir Putin and his "thugs" for Navalny's death last week, speaking to journalists in Washington. Biden and other Western allies have already used unprecedented sanctions as a way of throttling support for Moscow's war in Ukraine, while at the same time supplying Kyiv...
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Washington (AFP) - The United States on Saturday voiced deepening concern over the fate of imprisoned Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who has not been heard from since early December. "We are deeply concerned about the whereabouts of Alexei Navalny, who has now been missing in Russia's prison system for nearly three weeks," Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on X, the former Twitter. "We once more call for his immediate release and an end to the continued repression of independent voices in Russia." On Monday, UN rights expert Mariana Katzarova joined a chorus of voices expressi...
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Washington (AFP) - Jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny has given his first interview from prison, comparing it to a Chinese labor camp and saying he is forced to watch eight hours of state television a day. Navalny, who built his political career on exposing corruption in Russia, is being held in a maximum security prison colony in Pokrov, 100 kilometers (60 miles) east of Moscow. He told The New York Times the days of heavy labor in Soviet gulags were over -- replaced by what he called the "psychological violence" of brainwashing and propaganda. "You might imagine tattooed muscle men with s...
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Moscow (AFP) - Moscow hit back at Western capitals Wednesday for sanctioning senior Russian officials over the poisoning of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny, warning its foes "not to play with fire". The Kremlin accused Washington and Brussels of interference after the US and the EU introduced fresh penalties Tuesday over Navalny, who was jailed last month on returning from Germany where he was recovering from exposure to a nerve agent. The sanctions further erode ties between Moscow and the West following Russia's annexation of Crimea in 2014. "We believe such measures are absolutely unacceptab...
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