Russian authorities insisted that the doctors who treated Navalny in Siberia before he was airlifted to Germany found no traces of poison and have challenged German officials to provide proof of his poisoning.
Russia refused to open a full-fledged criminal inquiry, citing a lack of evidence that Navalny was poisoned. Last month, Navalny released the recording of a phone call he said he made to a man he described as an alleged member of a group of officers of the Federal Security Service, or FSB, who purportedly poisoned him in August and then tried to cover it up. The FSB dismissed the recording as fake.
He has been jailed repeatedly in connection with protests and twice was convicted of financial misdeeds in cases that he said were politically motivated. He suffered significant eye damage when an assailant threw disinfectant into his face. He was taken from jail to a hospital in with an illness that authorities said was an allergic reaction but which many suspected was a poisoning.
Sections U. Science Technology Business U. Russian police on Saturday arrested hundreds of protesters who took to the streets in temperatures as low as minus C minus F to demand the release of Alexei Navalny, the country's top opposition figure. Navalny, President Vladimir Putin's most prominent foe, was arrested on Jan. Russian President Vladimir Putin said Wednesday that jailed opposition leader Alexey Navalny got what he deserved when he was sentenced to prison. Putin, speaking at a news conference in Geneva after his summit with U.
President Joe Biden, said, without mentioning Navalny's name, "He deliberately moved [back to Russia] to be arrested. Navalny, Putin's most prominent political foe, was arrested in January when he returned from Germany, where he had been treated at a Berlin hospital for five months while recovering from a poisoning. Navalny contends Russian agents applied the nerve agent Novichok to his underwear in August, a claim Moscow has denied. Then, in February, Navalny was handed a two-and-a-half-year prison term for violating terms of a suspended sentence he had been given after a embezzlement conviction he has claimed is politically motivated.
Putin told reporters that Navalny had received his due punishment for violating his probation and had known he would be arrested when he returned to Russia. When asked what would happen if Navalny died in prison, Biden said Wednesday, "I made it clear to him that I believe the consequences of that would be devastating for Russia.
A Moscow court last week outlawed organizations founded by Navalny, describing them as "extremist. In the NBC interview and at Wednesday's news conference, Putin equated Russia's response to dissent with the arrest of more than supporters of former U.
And this is driving the thieving little man in the bunker crazy. Mr Navalny's return to Russia on 17 January triggered mass protests in support of him, many of them young Russians who have only ever experienced President Putin's rule. The Kremlin has denied any involvement in the attack on him, and rejects the conclusion by Western experts that Novichok - a Russian chemical weapon - was used. Mr Navalny accuses Mr Putin of running an administration riddled with corruption, and recently released a YouTube video featuring an opulent Black Sea palace which, he alleged, was a Russian billionaires' gift to the president.
More than million people have watched the video. On Saturday Arkady Rotenberg, a billionaire businessman close to Mr Putin, said he owned the palace and had bought it two years ago. But on Sunday some protesters brandished gold-coloured toilet brushes, a symbol of their anger about the palace.
For a second weekend, crowds defied bitter cold and a massive deployment of riot police, and more than 5, were arrested, according to OVD-Info group. OVD-Info says it is an independent Russian media project, which gets crowdfunding in Russia and its donors include the Memorial human rights group and the European Commission. Mr Navalny is already serving a day sentence in connection with the embezzlement case, which he denounces as politically motivated. Navalny: Russia's jailed but vociferous Putin critic.
Thousands join Navalny protests across Russia. Navalny defiant as judge dismisses appeal. Detentions and warnings over Navalny protests. Russia threatens to fine TikTok over protest posts. This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Alexei Navalny says the latest case against him was fabricated. Thousands have rallied across Russia.
Russia's vociferous Putin critic Thousands join Navalny protests across Russia 'We have to protest' - anti-Putin anger spreads.
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