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No dissent, only despotism: How Russia has changed under Vladimir Putin
9 months, 1 week ago

No dissent, only despotism: How Russia has changed under Vladimir Putin

Firstpost  

Over the last decade, Vladimir Putin’s Russia gone from a country that tolerates at least some dissent to one that ruthlessly suppresses it. “Russia is no longer an authoritarian state — it is a totalitarian state,” said Oleg Orlov, co-chair of Memorial, the Russian human rights group focused on political repression. “All these repressions are aimed at suppressing any independent …

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How Putin’s crackdown on dissent became the hallmark of the Russian leader’s 24 years in power
9 months, 2 weeks ago

How Putin’s crackdown on dissent became the hallmark of the Russian leader’s 24 years in power

LA Times  

Police detain a man trying to lay flowers to honor the late activist Alexei Navalny at a monument in St. Petersburg, Russia. “Russia is no longer an authoritarian state — it is a totalitarian state,” said Oleg Orlov, co-chair of Memorial, the Russian human rights group focused on political repression. “All these repressions are aimed at suppressing any independent expression …

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How Putin’s crackdown on dissent became the hallmark of the Russian leader’s 24 years in power
9 months, 2 weeks ago

How Putin’s crackdown on dissent became the hallmark of the Russian leader’s 24 years in power

Associated Press  

This story is part of a larger series on the crackdown on dissent in Russia. “Russia is no longer an authoritarian state -– it is a totalitarian state,” said Oleg Orlov, co-chair of Memorial, the Russian human rights group focused on political repression. “All these repressions are aimed at suppressing any independent expression about Russia’s political system, about the actions …

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How Putin's crackdown on dissent became the hallmark of the Russian leader's 24 years in power
9 months, 2 weeks ago

How Putin's crackdown on dissent became the hallmark of the Russian leader's 24 years in power

New Indian Express  

Another group, OVD-Info, said in November that 1,141 people are behind bars on politically motivated charges, with over 400 others receiving other punishment and nearly 300 more under investigation. Exiled oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky, who spent 10 years in prison after challenging Putin, told AP in a recent interview the Kremlin began stifling dissent even before his 2003 arrest. Asked …

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Did Moscow order the death of the oligarchs’ London lawyer?
9 months, 3 weeks ago

Did Moscow order the death of the oligarchs’ London lawyer?

The Independent  

It is 6.56pm, Wednesday 3 March 2004. “Stephen was the smartest lawyer I ever met,” says Samuelson, who had worked in Russia since the late 1980s and shared an office with Curtis. “I suggest you move the money out of Switzerland, into London and spread the funds among several accounts.” open image in gallery Russian oligarch Boris Berezovsky leaving London’s …

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Who are other Russian dissidents besides the late Alexei Navalny?
10 months ago

Who are other Russian dissidents besides the late Alexei Navalny?

Associated Press  

The sudden death of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s most formidable antagonist has left an open wound in Russia’s political opposition. Russian opposition activist Alexei Navalny's spokeswoman Kira Yarmysh arrives at court in Moscow, Russia, Monday, Aug. 16, 2021. After Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine two years ago this week, he and other prominent Putin critics, including chess legend Garry Kasparov …

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Most of Russia’s opposition is either dead, in exile abroad or in prison at home. What happens now?
10 months ago

Most of Russia’s opposition is either dead, in exile abroad or in prison at home. What happens now?

Associated Press  

LONDON — Alexei Navalny was asked four years ago what he’d tell Russians if he were killed for challenging President Vladimir Putin. Graeme Robertson, a professor of political science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and author of a book about Putin and contemporary Russian politics, says the biggest problem that has plagued the Russian opposition “is …

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Most of Russia’s opposition leaders are dead, in exile or in prison. What happens now?
10 months ago

Most of Russia’s opposition leaders are dead, in exile or in prison. What happens now?

LA Times  

A tribute to the late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who died in an Arctic prison colony, is left near the Russian Embassy in London. “This is a very difficult loss for the Russian opposition.” The biggest problem that has plagued the opposition, said University of North Carolina political science professor Graeme Robertson, author of a book about Putin and …

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Russia puts exiled tycoon and opposition leader Khodorkovsky on wanted list for war comments
11 months, 2 weeks ago

Russia puts exiled tycoon and opposition leader Khodorkovsky on wanted list for war comments

Associated Press  

Russia’s Ministry of Internal Affairs put exiled Russian tycoon and opposition leader Mikhail Khodorkovsky on its wanted list Tuesday, accusing him of spreading false information about the Russian army, Russian state news agency Tass said. Khodorkovsky already spent a decade in prison in Russia on charges widely seen as political revenge for challenging President Vladimir Putin’s rule in the early …

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Allies of Russian opposition leader Navalny post billboards asking citizens to vote against Putin
1 year ago

Allies of Russian opposition leader Navalny post billboards asking citizens to vote against Putin

Associated Press  

LONDON — Opposition activists in Russia came up with a way to get around Kremlin censorship while urging citizens to vote against President Vladimir Putin in an election next year: billboards disguised as a New Year’s greeting. The Anti-Corruption Foundation founded by imprisoned opposition leader Alexei Navalny paid for billboards in Moscow, St Petersburg and other Russian cities which said …

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Vladimir Putin's biggest rival Alexei Navalny is in 'one of the worst places in the world' — this is what it's like
1 year, 4 months ago

Vladimir Putin's biggest rival Alexei Navalny is in 'one of the worst places in the world' — this is what it's like

ABC  

It's a harrowing existence. For Alexei Navalny — Russian President Vladimir Putin's most prominent political opponent — it's the reality of life inside the "special regime" at the IK-6 penal colony. Olga Romanova, the director of prisoners' rights group Russia Behind Bars, says Navalny is in "one of the worst places in the world". Romanova says Navalny was the first …

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World War Three is the only way to stop Putin, warns Russia's former richest man
1 year, 10 months ago

World War Three is the only way to stop Putin, warns Russia's former richest man

Daily Mail  

A leading Putin foe has warned the West that NATO will inevitably be dragged into war with Russia. As the West contemplates supplying warplanes to Volodymyr Zelensky, exiled opposition figure Mikhail Khodorkovsky issued a stark analysis that there will be no other way than World War Three to stop the dictator. 'The NATO countries and the Western Europe will have …

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Vladimir Putin's critics: dead, jailed, exiled
2 years, 1 month ago

Vladimir Putin's critics: dead, jailed, exiled

Raw Story  

Opposition politician Ilya Yashin, who went on trial in Moscow on Wednesday, risks becoming the latest in a long line of Kremlin critics slapped with heavy jail terms. Jailed Russia's main opposition politician Alexei Navalny was poisoned with Novichok, a Soviet-made nerve agent, on a trip to Siberia in 2020. Exiled Some of Putin's high-profile critics have been based abroad …

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Latest Ukraine updates: Putin warns West against arming Kyiv
2 years, 6 months ago

Latest Ukraine updates: Putin warns West against arming Kyiv

Al Jazeera  

Ukraine news from May 28: The warning came in a call with French and German leaders who urged Putin to hold ‘serious negotiations’ with Zelenskyy. 28 May 2022 - 18:59 GMT Correspondent: Putin says Kyiv government not serious about talks In talks with Scholz and Macron, Putin “also talked about how the discussions have stalled between the two sides as …

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OM shut down investigation into Russian oligarchs
2 years, 8 months ago

OM shut down investigation into Russian oligarchs

NL Times  

The Public Prosecution Service has dismissed several investigations into money laundering in the Netherlands by Russian oligarchs partially because it feared a political struggle, according to NRC. It concerned the Amsterdam Trade Bank and the Hoofddorp branch of Valmet, a trust office that was later renamed Mutual Trust. Then, in 2005, the OM raided Valmet's Hoofddorp branch amid a larger …

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Exiled oligarch calls on Russian tycoons to declare Putin ‘war criminal’ over Ukraine
2 years, 8 months ago

Exiled oligarch calls on Russian tycoons to declare Putin ‘war criminal’ over Ukraine

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. open image in gallery Anatoly Chubais is the highest-ranking …

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'Regime will end very soon': Jailed Oligarch explains why many Russians also want Putin to go
2 years, 8 months ago

'Regime will end very soon': Jailed Oligarch explains why many Russians also want Putin to go

Raw Story  

A Russian businessman imprisoned for a decade by Vladimir Putin believes the end is near for the former KGB operative's regime. Mikhail Khodorkovsky, who founded one of the nation's first commercial banks, spent 10 years in a Siberian prison after publicly criticizing Putin's business corruption, but he now lives in London after he was freed ahead of the Sochi Winter …

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What will Russia’s post-invasion economy look like?
2 years, 8 months ago

What will Russia’s post-invasion economy look like?

Al Jazeera  

Russia’s market economy died exactly one month ago when the West imposed sanctions cutting off its central bank from capital markets and freezing hundreds of billions of dollars of its reserves in the process, in response to President Vladimir Putin’s unprovoked invasion of Ukraine. From autocratic market economy to autarkic command While Russia has been considered a market economy since …

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2 Russian news sites, legal aid group, close under pressure
3 years, 4 months ago

2 Russian news sites, legal aid group, close under pressure

Associated Press  

MOSCOW — Two Russian news outlets and a legal aid group backed by a leading Kremlin critic shut down Thursday after authorities blocked their websites, the government’s latest moves targeting independent media, opposition supporters and human rights activists ahead of Russia’s September parliamentary election. The Otkrytye Media and MBKh Media news sites, as well the Pravozashchita Otkrytki legal aid group, …

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AP Interview: Kremlin cracking down on dissent before vote
3 years, 6 months ago

AP Interview: Kremlin cracking down on dissent before vote

Associated Press  

MOSCOW — Russian authorities are cracking down on dissent before a crucial parliamentary election in September, in what a leading Kremlin critic on Tuesday described as an attempt to sideline opponents. Mikhail Khodorkovsky, a Russian tycoon who moved to London after spending a decade in prison in Russia on charges widely seen as political revenge for challenging President Vladimir Putin’s …

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Kremlin critic Khodorkovsky urges Europe to sanction Belarus
3 years, 7 months ago

Kremlin critic Khodorkovsky urges Europe to sanction Belarus

Al Jazeera  

Mikhail Khodorkovsky, a former Russian oil tycoon, called for sanctions against Belneftekhim, Belarus’s state oil company, and Belaruskali, one of the world’s largest producers of potash. Mikhail Khodorkovsky, a former oil tycoon who fell foul of Vladimir Putin’s Kremlin, said European countries should punish Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko for his act of airspace “piracy” by sanctioning oil and potash producers. …

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Russian activist Navalny’s foundation calls on Biden to sanction Putin’s closest allies
3 years, 10 months ago

Russian activist Navalny’s foundation calls on Biden to sanction Putin’s closest allies

CNN  

Moscow CNN — The foundation set up by Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny has called on US President Joe Biden to impose sanctions on at least eight high profile Russian figures it says are close to Russian President Vladimir Putin. Navalny’s Anti-Corruption Foundation said it had submitted a broader list of 35 people in total in a letter addressed to …

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