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Turkey's main opposition party retained its control over key cities and made huge gains elsewhere in local elections on Sunday. The results are a major upset for President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who had set his sights on retaking control of those urban areas. With more than 90% of ballot boxes counted, incumbent Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, of the Republican People's Party (CHP) led by a wide margin in Turkey's largest city and economic hub, according to the state-run Anadolu Agency. Mansur Yavas, mayor of the capital, Ankara, retained his seat with a stunning 25-point difference over his cha...
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As Russians go to the polls to give their verdict on Vladimir Putin's presidency, one man has taken to the streets to give his. Artist Vladimir Ovchinnikov has expressed his opposition to the war in Ukraine, and Putin himself, in provocative murals in the town of Borovsk. Watch the full report in the player above.
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Russian political activist, Yuri Alekseyev, moved to a remote region of Armenia in May 2022, shortly after Russia launched its so-called "special operation" in Ukraine. "As soon as the war started, I hung a 'No to War' banner near my house. I was immediately arrested. They gave me 15 days in jail. I served my time,” he said. Occasionally, the lawyer and programmer by profession leave his hut in the mountains to travel some 200 kilometres to the Armenian capital, Yerevan, where he protests against Vladimir Putin outside the Russian embassy. Watch the full report in the player above.
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Alexei Navalny's spokesperson announced on Wednesday that the funeral for the Russian opposition leader will be held on Friday at a church in Moscow, two weeks after he died in a remote Arctic penal colony. Navalny's body was returned to his mother eight days after his death, according to his spokesperson. The family had trouble finding a location willing to hold the funeral, as many declined to host the service. Writing on X, formerly Twitter, Navalny's spokesperson Kira Yarmysh said that most venues said they were fully booked, with some "refusing when we mention the surname 'Navalny'" and o...
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Russian opposition politician, Alexei Navalny, was about to being freed in a prisoner swap at the time of his death, according to one of his close allies. Anti-corruption activist, Maria Pevchikh, who is chairperson of Navalny’s Anti-Corruption Foundation, made the claim on Navalny’s YouTube channel on Monday. She said the late politician and two United States citizen were to be exchanged for Vadim Krasikov, a Russian FSB officer who is serving time in Germany for the assassination of a former Chechen rebel commander. "I received confirmation that negotiations were in their final stages on the...
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The mother of Alexei Navalny said on Thursday she had been able to see her son's body finally. Lyudmila Navalnaya said she is resisting strong pressure from authorities to agree to a secret burial of the late Russian opposition figure outside the public eye. Speaking in a video statement, she said investigators allowed her to see her son’s body in the morgue. Navalnaya reaffirmed the demand to give Navalny’s body to her. “They are blackmailing me, they are setting conditions where, when and how my son should be buried,” she said. “They want it to do it secretly without a mourning ceremony.” Na...
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Thousands of supporters of Albania’s opposition took to the streets of the capital Tirana on Tuesday to protest against alleged corruption in the government’s cabinet. The demonstration followed months of protests from opposition lawmakers in parliament over the ruling socialists’ refusal to investigate alleged corruption involving Prime Minister Edi Rama and other top officials. Protests coincided with the 33rd anniversary of the toppling of the main statue of the country’s late communist director, Enver Hoxha. The cabinet was asked to create parliamentary commissions to investigate the alleg...
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More than 300 people were detained in Russia while paying tribute to the late opposition leader Alexei Navalny, a prominent rights group reported on Sunday. The sudden death of the 47-year-old at a remote Arctic penal colony was a crushing blow to many Russians, who had pinned their hopes for the future on President Vladimir Putin's fiercest foe. Navalny remained vocal in his unrelenting criticism of the Kremlin even after surviving a nerve agent poisoning and receiving multiple prison terms. The news of his death reverberated across the globe, with many world leaders blaming Putin and his inn...
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It is unclear where the body of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny is, his team said on Saturday after confirming his death, demanding his remains be released to his family "immediately". They added that the Kremlin critic had been "murdered". Navalny's spokesperson, Kira Yarmysh, posted on X that Navalny's mother had travelled to the "special regime" penal colony above the Arctic Circle he had been held in and been given an official message that he had died on February 16 at 2:17 p.m. local time. She was then informed that his body had been transferred by investigators to Salekhard. But...
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A Russian court of appeals has sentenced prominent anti-war sociologist and Marxist theorist Boris Kagarlitsky to five years in prison. The court also decided to take Kagarlitsky into custody in the courtroom and keep him in a pre-trial detention centre until he begins serving his sentence. The Security Service opened a criminal case against Kagarlitsky for an online post about the 2022 Crimean Bridge explosion, a major event in the early phase of Russia's war in Ukraine. Since then, he has been in pre-trial detention. He is accused of justifying terrorism and denies all the charges. Oppositio...
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