 | Russia labels Navalny allies, rapper 'foreign agents'"Foreign agents" are subject to numerous constraints and laborious procedures, or they face heavy penalties. They must indicate this status in all their publications. |
 | Amid Russia's new crackdowns, small signs of defiance emergeBy the time Navalny’s sentence was extended for another nine years by a court on Tuesday, not much dissent could be mustered. The Kremlin had worked hard to see to that. |
 | Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny found guilty on new embezzlement chargesNavalny, President Vladimir Putin's most vocal domestic critic, was jailed last year on old fraud charges after surviving a poison attack with Novichok nerve agent that he blames on the Kremlin. |
 | Navalny calls on Russians to take to the streets against invasion of Ukraine by an 'obviously insane czar'The Putin critic who survived poisoning with a nerve agent and who has millions of followers on social media declared, "we will fill prisons and paddy wagons with ourselves." |
 | Kremlin critics stay undaunted after yearlong crackdownOver the past 12 months, scores of activists, independent journalists and rights advocates were targeted with raids, detained and designated as terrorists and foreign agents. |
 | Russia adds Navalny, allies to terrorists, extremists listNavalny, Vladimir Putin's fiercest critic, and eight of his allies including top aides Lyubov Sobol and Georgy Alburov were on Tuesday added to the registry. |
 | 2021 in a nutshell: COVID, coups and chaos mark tumultuous year for the globeWhile more than five million people died from the virus, Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi was arrested in a coup. |
| Kremlin critic Navalny wins EU's Sakharov rights awardAlexei Navalny, also nominated but passed over for this year's Nobel Peace Prize, was jailed in February after returning to Russia from Germany where he was treated for a poisoning attack. |
| Russia opens extremism probe against Alexei Navalny and his alliesThe investigation is the latest step in a multi-pronged crackdown on the Kremlin's most ardent foe and his team. |
 | Pro-Kremlin party on course to retain majority in parliamentThe vote has been watched closely as key to the runup to the 2024 presidential election. It's not clear whether Putin will run again but an obedient State Duma is crucial to whatever his plans are. |
 | Putin's party set to retain parliament majority after pollsIn the lead-up to this weekend's vote, all of Putin's top allies were arrested or had fled the country, with anyone associated with his groups kept from running in the parliamentary and local polls. |
| Apple removed Russia opposition app after arrest threats: SourceThe source said Apple employees faced mounting 'bullying tactics and threats to arrest' at the start of a three-day parliamentary election in Russia. |
 | Navalny app removed from Apple and Google stores as Russian polls openIt comes as Russian authorities seek to suppress the use of Smart Voting, a project designed by Navalny to promote candidates that are most likely to defeat those backed by the Kremlin. |
| Parliamentary election unlikely to change Russia's politicsIt remains to be seen whether United Russia, the party devoted to President Vladimir Putin will retain its two-thirds majority that allows it to amend the constitution or will lose its prestige. |
 | Navalny marks year after poisoning with anti-corruption callNavalny chided Western leaders for relegating fight against corruption to “secondary agenda” item and said that graft plays an essential part in policy failures, including in Iraq and Afghanistan. |
