Moscow — Authorities have warned Russians not to participate in local Valentine’s Day shows of support for jailed opposition leader Alexey Navalny this weekend. Navalny’s team has called on the Kremlin critic’s supporters to hold up their cell phone flashlights in the courtyards outside their apartment buildings in Russian cities for […]
Kremlin critic Navalny ‘stable’ in Berlin hospital
Kremlin critic and opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who has suffered a suspected poisoning, was in a stable condition in hospital on Saturday after being flown to Berlin following a standoff over his medical evacuation from Russia. An air ambulance carrying Navalny, chartered by the German NGO Cinema for Peace, touched […]
Air ambulance carrying Kremlin critic Navalny lands in Germany
An air ambulance landed in the German capital on Saturday carrying Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who has suffered a suspected poisoning, after a day-long standoff over his medical evacuation. The plane, chartered by the German NGO Cinema for Peace, landed at 8:47 am local time (0647 GMT) at Tegel […]
Air ambulance flies Russian opposition leader Navalny to Germany
An air ambulance took off from the Siberian city of Omsk on Saturday carrying Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny to Germany for treatment of a suspected poisoning, after a day-long standoff over his medical evacuation. The 44-year-old lawyer and anti-corruption campaigner, one of President Vladimir Putin’s fiercest critics, fell into […]