The case highlighted the perils of independent journalism amid an intensified Kremlin crackdown on freedom of expression.

Russian journalists, from left, Sergey Karelin and Konstantin Gabov, accused of working for a group founded by the late Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny, stand in a defendant's cage of the ...

The journalists — Antonina Favorskaya, Konstantin Gabov, Sergey Karelin, and Artyom Kriger — were accused of working with Navalny's Foundation for Fighting Corruption, which was banned and ...

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Navalny died suddenly at the age of 47 on February 16, 2024, while serving a 19-year sentence on extremism charges he denied. At the time, Russia’s prison service claimed he “felt unwell after ...

Alexei Navalny's widow has paid tribute to the Russian opposition leader on the one year anniversary of his unexpected death. Hundreds of people risked arrest and freezing weather in Moscow on ...

MOSCOW, April 15 (Reuters) - Four Russian journalists were sentenced by a Moscow court to 5-1/2 years each in prison on Tuesday after being found guilty of working for the banned organisation of ...

A Russian court has sentenced four journalists to five and a half years in prison each after convicting them of “extremism” linked to their alleged work with an organisation founded by the ...

Russian journalists, Antonina Favorskaya, left, and Artyom Kriger, accused of working for a group founded by the late Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny, stand in a defendant's cage of ...

MOSCOW — A Russian court convicted four journalists of extremism Tuesday for working for an anti-corruption group founded by the late opposition leader Alexei Navalny and sentenced them to 5½ ...