#kremlin-critics

#kremlin-critics

Human rights advocate Oleg Orlov sentenced to two-and-a-half years in prison for discrediting armed forces.

Memorial, a Nobel Prize-winning human rights group, condemned the trial as an attack on free expression and vowed to appeal. [ more ]

Russian opposition figure Alexey Navalny is just one of many Kremlin critics to have fallen foul of the government under President Vladimir Putin's rule.

Navalny, 47, who Russian prison authorities said had died on Friday, was jailed in early 2021 after returning from Germany, where he was recovering from a near-fatal poisoning attack.

Some of Putin's high-profile critics have been in exile for years. [ more ]