EU agrees to impose sanctions on Russia for jailing Alexei Navalny
The EU also agreed on sanctions for Myanmar over the military’s seizure of power.
The EU also agreed on sanctions for Myanmar over the military’s seizure of power.
Alexei Navalny was arrested and jailed upon returning to Russia last month.
In his closing arguments, Navalny said that “every moment of this case is obvious legal nonsense”.
During a theatrical trial today, the opposition figure sparred with the judge and prosecutor and mocked the veteran’s grandson.
What next for Russia following the jailing of the anti-corruption opposition leader?
Navalny was sentenced to nearly three years in prison.
Britain, France, Germany, the United States and the European Union denounced the ruling and called for his immediate release.
Navalny is the most prominent critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
The preliminary findings show that the two-dose Sputnik V “has shown high efficacy” and was well tolerated for adults.
Navalny’s team said there was ‘overwhelming nationwide support’ for the Kremlin’s fiercest critic.
Protesters defied government warnings to rally from Vladivostok to Saint Petersburg in a second weekend of mass demonstrations.
Tens of thousands rallied in support of jailed opposition politician Alexei Navalny in Russia this weekend.
Thousands of protesters joined in cities today to support the jailed Kremlin critic.
Navalny was arrested after returning from Germany following treatment for nerve agent poisoning.
Navalny was detained on arrival in Russia after recovering from nerve agent poisoning in Germany.
A criminal case into deaths by negligence as a result of safety violations has been opened.
Officials said that two people had been rescued by a passing vessel but hopes were quickly fading that more survivors could be found.
Russian news agencies reported Blake’s death today.
Western governments say Alexei Navalny was poisoned with the Soviet-era Novichok nerve agent
The bill affirms 3% pay raises for US troops and authorises more than $740 billion in military programmes and construction.
And the country’s footballers will miss the World Cup in Qatar should they qualify too.
It’s widely suggested that Russia was behind Navalny’s poisoning in August.
Health officials have opened 70 vaccine centres in Moscow.
Fighting between Azerbaijan and Armenia has been ongoing for six weeks in the context Nagorno-Karabkh region.
Western allies, including the German Chancellor and Taoiseach Micheál Martin – welcomed a fresh start with Washington.
The decision was agreed upon among the 27 EU envoys to Brussels.
Moscow quickly hit back that the accusations were “unacceptable” and amounted to “blackmail”.
The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons carried out its own analysis of samples taken from the Russian opposition figure.
Irish-Armenians are calling for the international community to intervene as deadly fighting continues in the Nagorno-Karabakh region.
It marks the third time in six days the Typhoons have been scrambled in response to Russian planes.
Protesters in Belarus are seeking the resignation of Alexander Lukashenko, denouncing his landslide re-election in August.
“I came out for freedom,” one protester said today in Minsk.
The vote is seen as a key test of the Kremlin’s control of local politics.
Tech giant Microsoft said today it has detected and thwarted a number of hacking attempts in recent weeks.
Chemical weapons experts have said Alexei Navalny was poisoned with a nerve agent.
Foreign Minister Heiko Maas warned a lack of support for the investigation could force Germany to rethink the German-Russian gas pipeline project.
Alexei Navalny fell ill on a flight to Moscow and is now in an induced coma in a Berlin hospital.
Alexei Navalny last month became the latest in a long line of Russian defectors to be poisoned in suspicious circumstances.
Chancellor Angela Merkel gave a statement earlier to confirm that Navalny had been poisoned with Novichok.
Alexei Navalny’s allies insist he was deliberately poisoned and say the Kremlin was behind it.