Why Putin wants Alexei Navalny dead

 In 2006, a lawyer named Alexei Navalny started a blog where he wrote about corruption in his home country of Russia. It’s the most prominent problem under the regime of Vladimir Putin, who has ruled Russia since 2000. Putin has systematically taken over the country’s independent media, oligarchy, elections, and laws to cement his own power and wield corruption to his advantage.

Anti-Putin protester's arrest video 'leaked to scare people'

 

Vladimir Putin opponent Alexei Navalny's arrest has sparked unprecedented street protests in Russia. With the Kremlin determined to crack down, Russian police have been targeting opposition activists across the country, as far away as Vladivostok, 4,000 miles east of Moscow.

Russian police arrest thousands in second week of protests

 

In Russia, over three thousand people have been arrested during a second week of nationwide protests in support of opposition figure Alexei Navalny.

Putin, the poisoning and Belarus: what's really going on?

 

Vladimir Putin has been rattled by protests in Belarus and Russia’s far east—and stands accused of poisoning Alexei Navalny, his only real political rival at home. What does Putin really fear?

Global rise in sanctions: A useless tool? | DW News

 The German government says it's looking at the entire set of instruments it could use in taking action against Moscow over the poisoning of Russian opposition leader, Alexei Navalny.

Russia's Navalny out of coma after poisoning

 Doctors treating Russian opposition figure Alexei Navalny say he is out of an induced coma and his condition, since being poisoned, has improved.