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Navalny told his lawyer he thought he was being poisoned in prison months before his sudden death
Alexey Navalny, Vladimir Putin's political nemesis, suspected he was being poisoned before he died …
Alia Shoaib
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Alexey Navalny appeared healthy and smiling in court a day before his sudden death, video shows
Alexey Navalny is seen cracking jokes with a judge in what is believed to be his last court appeara…
Mikhaila Friel
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Alexey Navalny is dead: Putin's political nemesis died suddenly in prison, Russian officials say
Alexey Navalny "felt unwell after a walk and almost immediately lost consciousness," according to a…
Tom Porter
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Amnesty International stopped classifying Putin critic Alexei Navalny as a prisoner of conscience, saying he advocated hatred in the past
The human-rights NGO is still calling for Navalny's release but said some past statements "reach th…
Mia Jankowicz
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Putin critic Navalny tricked a Russian agent into revealing he was poisoned with a nerve agent planted in his underwear
Posing as an official aide, Navalny fooled an FSB agent into telling him he was poisoned with a ner…
Ryan Pickrell
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Putin claims Navalny is in cahoots with US intelligence and denies poisoning him, stating Russia would've 'finished the job'
Navalny nearly died after being poisoned with the Russian-designed nerve agent Novichok in late Aug…
John Haltiwanger
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Britain, France, and Germany said they will sanction Russia over Alexei Navalny's poisoning. Putin won't care.
Just as in the 2018 poisoning of the Skripals in England and the 2019 killing of a Chechen leader i…
Bill Bostock
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Alexei Navalny posted a photo of himself leaving hospital after 32 days, and the scars on his neck match those on a previous Novichok victim
Navalny, Vladimir Putin's chief critic, was poisoned with the Novichok nerve agent on August 20. Hi…
Bill Bostock
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Alexei Navalny's Instagram page posted a video of water bottles thought to be tainted with poison meant to kill him
Navalny, a top critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin, fell ill August 20. German doctors have …
Bill Bostock
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Why Putin deliberately uses Novichok to poison his enemies, even though it often fails to kill them
German doctors have accused Russia of poisoning top critic Alexei Navalny with the Soviet-era nerve…
Mitch Prothero
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Germany says top Putin opponent Alexei Navalny was poisoned with Novichok nerve agent
Germany demanded an explanation from the Russian government after discovering the nerve agent Novic…
John Haltiwanger
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A third Russian national has been charged in the 2018 nerve agent poisoning of 2 people in Salisbury
The case dates back to March 2018, when former Russian agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter, Yulia…
Kelly McLaughlin
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Kremlin critic Navalny tells court that Putin will go down in history as nothing but an 'underpants poisoner'
"I mortally offended him by surviving...And then I committed an even more serious offense: I didn't…
Ryan Pickrell
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Russia has a secret chemical weapons program, and its scientists have been in contact with suspected Russian assassins, investigation says
Russia claims that it destroyed its chemical weapons stockpile, but a year-long investigation found…
Ryan Pickrell
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Jailed Putin critic Alexey Navalny says recruiting prisoners as mercenaries for war in Ukraine makes him question if the Russian army even exists anymore
Navalny has been a fierce critic of Russia's unprovoked war in Ukraine, calling on Russians to stag…
John Haltiwanger
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Local Russian lawmakers called for Putin's removal from power over the war in Ukraine, and then the police went after them
Openly criticizing Putin has led to imprisonment or worse. A number of of Putin opponents have died…
John Haltiwanger
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Former Putin ally who fled Russia hospitalized with rare illness that made him suddenly lose feeling in his hands and legs: report
Anatoly Chubais resigned as a top advisor to Vladimir Putin and fled the country shortly after Russ…
Sophia Ankel
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Jailed Putin critic Alexey Navalny's allies don't know where he is after Russia abruptly moved him
As long as Navalny's whereabouts are unknown, the Kremlin critic "remains one-on-one with the syste…
John Haltiwanger
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Alexey Navalny calls out world leaders who 'hypocritically' benefited from Russian energy as Putin's 'grip on power grew stronger'
Russia's unprovoked war in Ukraine will "cost hundreds of times more than those lucrative oil and g…
John Haltiwanger
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Putin attacking Moldova and Georgia next is 'not off the table,' top Navalny aide warns
There are growing concerns in the West that Putin could expand his war beyond Ukraine after mysteri…