Navalny’s lawyers jailed as Putin’s crackdown on dissent reaches new heights - Alexei Navalny’s lawyers were accused by Russian authorities of passing him information while he was in prison

Vadim Kobzev, Igor Sergunin and Alexei Liptser were jailed for between three and a half to five years by a court in the town of Petushki, about 60 miles east of Moscow

Vadim Kobzev, Igor Sergunin and Alexei Liptser, who once represented the late opposition leader Alexei Navalny, were all jailed for several years each by a court in the town of Petushki

Three lawyers for the late opposition leader Alexei Navalny were sentenced by a Russian court for alleged extremist activity. The closed-door trial has drawn criticism for repressing dissent. Human rights groups and the U.

Navalny started working on the manuscript in Germany while recuperating from the poisoning that was meant to kill him. The book begins with a matter-of-fact but terrifying description of his near-death in August 2020 (“Then I died.

The trio were arrested as authorities intensified pressure on the jailed Kremlin critic, who died last February.

Putin is doing this to scare you. He wants you to be afraid even to mention Alexei and gradually forget his name’