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EU agrees to sanction 30 Russians over Alexei Navalny’s death

Sanctions will include travel bans and asset freezes on prison officials responsible for Navalny’s treatment. ADVERTISEMENT EU countries will impose sanctions on 30 Russian officials over the death of leading Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny, according to the bloc’s foreign policy chief. “We agreed to sanctions on those responsible for the murder of Alexei Navalny,” Josep

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Putin says he supported Alexei Navalny prisoner swap

Russia’s best-known opposition figure died last month while serving a 19-year sentence on extremism charges that supporters say were politically motivated. ADVERTISEMENT Russian President Vladimir Putin said early on Monday that he supported an idea to release Alexei Navalny in a prisoner exchange just days before the opposition leader died. In his first comments addressing Navalny’s

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Alexei Navalny funeral: Mourners chant ‘Putin is a murderer’

Thousands of people have chanted Alexei Navalny’s name and say they will not forgive the Russian authorities for his death as the opposition leader was laid to rest in Moscow. In video streamed from the Borisovskyoe cemetery, Navalny’s mother Lyudmila and father Anatoly stooped over his open coffin to kiss him for the last time

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Alexei Navalny’s funeral to be held on Friday, spokesperson says

After several locations refused to host the service, Navalny’s spokesperson confirmed that a site for the funeral of the Russian opposition leader has been found. ADVERTISEMENT 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

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Alexei Navalny ally says he was about to be freed in a prisoner swap

Maria Pevchikh says negotiations for a prisoner exchange were in their final stages on the evening before his death. ADVERTISEMENT 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

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