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The Russian Orthodox Church has punished the priest who led a funeral service for the leading opposition figure Alexei Navalny, according to media reports. The Moscow clergyman Dmitry Safronov has been banned from holding services for the next three years, several Russian media reported on Wednesday, citing a decree by Moscow Patriarch Kirill. He is no longer allowed to give a blessing, wear a habit or priestly cross, they said. He was also dismissed as a deacon in the Church of the Assumption in Moscow. Instead, he is now to perform relief work for the priest there as a psalm singer in anothe...
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A Russian court has increased the sentence handed down to a former employee of late Kremlin opponent Alexei Navalny by two years to nine and a half years in prison. On Tuesday, a court in the city of Ufa in the Urals upheld an appeal by the public prosecutor's office against the sentence for allegedly creating an "extremist organization" in June 2023 and increased the sentence for Lilia Chanysheva, Navalny's team announced. Internationally, detained supporters of Navalny are considered political prisoners of the repressive Russian power apparatus. The spokesman for Navalny's team, Kira Yarmysh...
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Russian journalist Antonina Favorskaya, who extensively covered the trials of late dissident Alexei Navalny, has been detained over alleged links to his banned Anti-Corruption Foundation, a Moscow court said on Friday. Both Favorskaya's outlet SotaVision as well as Navalny's spokeswoman Kira Yarmysh have rejected the accusations, saying they are a pretext by Russian authorities to silence the journalist, who faces six years in prison after being arrested on Wednesday. Unlike stated in the indictment, Favorskaya never published materials for Navalny's Anti-Corruption Foundation, which has been ...
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A Catholic bishop in western Germany compared the treatment of late Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny to the trial of Jesus before the Roman governor Pontius Pilate, in comments to mark the Easter holiday of Good Friday. According to the Bible, Jesus was presented to the people and then taken back inside the governor's palace, where he was hidden from public view. "When the Russian dissenter and fighter for freedom and peace, Alexei Navalny, died weeks ago, this is exactly what came to my mind," Bishop Franz-Josef Overbeck said on Friday at a former colliery in Bottrop, north of Essen, according t...
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Following the funeral of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny in Moscow, several of those in attendance were reportedly arrested, according to civil rights activists. A man and a woman who had attended Navalny's funeral last Friday as well as separate memorial events were detained on Tuesday, according to OVD-Info, an independent Russian human rights media organization. A woman from Moscow had reportedly spent the night in police custody. Police officers are said to have tracked the woman down because a video camera caught her at Navalny's memorial shouting a slogan that translates as "Glory to the h...
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More than 40 predominantly Western countries are calling for an independent and international investigation into the death of Russian Kremlin opponent Alexei Navalny. "The political leadership and the authorities in Russia must be held accountable," Lotte Knudsen, EU ambassador to the United Nations in Geneva, said on Monday on behalf of the group of states at a meeting of the UN Human Rights Council. Russian President Vladimir Putin was ultimately responsible for Navalny's death in a prison camp, she said. The countries also called for the immediate release of all other political prisoners in...
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Mourners continued to pay their respects to Alexei Navalny at Moscow's Borisovsky Cemetery on Sunday, two days after the Russian dissident was buried, as police looked on but did not intervene. Mourners were permitted to lay flowers on the grave, a dpa journalist at the scene reported. Young people, the elderly and families with children laid flowers on the grave, which lies close to the cemetery's entrance. Many were in tears and embraced each other. "Heroes do not die. Thank you Alexei" was written on a cardboard poster at the grave. Among the wreaths there were also children's toys. A Russi...
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A day after the funeral on Friday of Kremlin opponent Alexei Navalny, people continued on Saturday to bid farewell to the Russian dissident at his grave in Moscow's Borisov cemetery, undeterred by the presence of police. Independent Russian media reported that the police allowed the mourners to stay unhindered at the grave and lay flowers. Pictures of the gravesite showed a sea of flowers and wreaths, and a Russian Orthodox cross with a photo of a smiling Navalny. According to the authorities, Navalny died on February 16 in a prison camp in the Yamal region, 1,900 kilometres north-east of Mosc...
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Thousands of people defiantly bade an emotional farewell on Friday to Alexei Navalny, the Russian dissident who died two weeks ago in an Arctic prison, at times unable to contain their anger at the authorities they blamed for his death. At the church dedicated to the "Assuage My Sorrows" icon of the Mother of God in Moscow's south-eastern Maryino district on Friday, mourners carrying flowers crowded around metal bars to bid farewell to the opposition leader. In the church, pictures of Navalny's body in the open coffin, covered in flowers and surrounded by numerous people during the service wer...
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Thousands of people defiantly bade an emotional farewell on Friday to Alexei Navalny, the Russian dissident who died two weeks ago in an Arctic prison, at times unable to contain their anger at the authorities they blamed for his death. At the church dedicated to the "Assuage My Sorrows" icon of the Mother of God in Moscow's south-eastern Maryino district on Friday, mourners carrying flowers crowded around metal bars to bid farewell to the opposition leader. In the church, pictures of Navalny's body in the open coffin, covered in flowers and surrounded by numerous people during the service wer...
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