 | Nerve agents, poison and window falls. Over the years, Kremlin foes have been attacked or killedWednesday's plane crash that is presumed to have killed Yevgeny Prigozhin and top lieutenants of his Wagner private military came two months to the day after he launched an armed rebellion |
 | Russian opposition leader Navalny faces 20 more years behind barsNavalny's last days before the verdict have been spent in a punishment cell where, his spokesperson said, he has been regularly sent over minor infringements of prison rules. |
| Navalny associate jailed as Russian opposition crackdown continuesNavalny, who exposed official corruption and organized massive anti-Kremlin protests, was arrested in January 2021 upon returning to Moscow after recuperating in Germany from nerve-agent poisoning. |
| Russia’s highest court quashes Navalny’s lawsuit over depriving him of pen and paper in prisonIn the lawsuit considered by the Supreme Court on Thursday, Navalny complained that prison officials in the restricted housing unit, where he is held in isolation, no longer gave him a pen and paper. |
 | A new trial begins for Russian opposition leader Navalny that could keep him locked up for decadesNavalny, wearing his prison garb, looked gaunt at the session but spoke emphatically about the weakness of the state's case and gestured energetically. |
 | Inside Russia's penal colonies: A look at life for political prisoners caught in Putin's crackdownsMemorial, Russia's oldest and most prominent human rights organization, counted 558 political prisoners in the country as of April — more than three times the figure than in 2018, when it listed 183. |
