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Alexei Navalny

March 2025

  • Michael Sheen, Jameela Jamil and Hanif Kureishi.

    Michael Sheen, Jameela Jamil and Hanif Kureishi join packed Hay festival lineup

    Yulia Navalnaya, widow of Russian opposition leader, is also due to appear, in a festival dedicated to activism and an exploration of the impact of AI

February 2025

  • The parents of late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny joined hundreds of mourners at their son's grave to mark the anniversary of his death
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    Parents of Alexei Navalny join hundreds of mourners on the anniversary of his death – video report

  • Lyudmila Navalnaya touches an image of her son at his grave

    Alexei Navalny supporters visit grave on first anniversary of his death

  • Alexei Navalny stands, palms outstretched, behind bars.

    The Observer view: A year on from his death, Alexei Navalny still shines bright in a dark land

  • Yuliya Navalnaya

    Russia-Ukraine war at a glance
    Ukraine war briefing: Alexei Navalny’s widow warns ‘no point trying to negotiate’ with Putin

January 2025

  • Igor Sergunin, Alexei Liptser and Vadim Kobzev behind court room bars

    Russia gives Navalny lawyers multi-year sentences for relaying his messages

    Verdicts against trio suggest legal representatives are latest target of Kremlin’s crackdown on dissent

December 2024

  • Alexei Navalny, 2020.

    The Observer's obituaries of 2024
    Alexei Navalny remembered by Yevgenia Albats

    The investigative journalist recalls her friend, the fearless Russian activist and opposition leader who laughed in the face of a murderous regime

November 2024

  • an open book

    Alexei Navalny’s posthumous memoir delivers a stinging rebuke to Putin

    This mordantly funny memoir, published posthumously, lambasts the Russian leader over Ukraine, and scorns the world’s autocracies

October 2024

  • Rome, Italy. 25th Jan, 2021. Rome, 25 January 2021. A poster by street artist Harry Greb depicting the opposition leader in Russia Alexei Navalny has appeared in the streets of the center Credit: Independent Photo Agency/Alamy Live News<br>2E5004T Rome, Italy. 25th Jan, 2021. Rome, 25 January 2021. A poster by street artist Harry Greb depicting the opposition leader in Russia Alexei Navalny has appeared in the streets of the center Credit: Independent Photo Agency/Alamy Live News

    Observer book of the week
    Patriot by Alexei Navalny review – the man who dared to defy Putin

  • Yulia Navalnaya and Emily Maitlis discuss Alexei Navalny's memoir Patriot at the Southbank Centre's London Literature Festival on 23 October. Photo Southbank Centre.

    Yulia Navalnaya, widow of opposition leader Alexei Navalny, says she can ‘imagine Russia without Putin’

  • Hands stack up copies of Alexei Navalny's book, Patriot, at a bookstore display

    Alexei Navalny memoir says The Wire inspired political career: ‘I’m a big fan’

  • Alexei Navalny is detained by police during a protest in Moscow, 2012.

    Book of the day
    Patriot by Alexei Navalny review – last testament

  • Alexei Navalny believed he would die in prison, memoir reveals

  • Russia’s exiled opposition rocked by claims over hammer attack on Navalny ally

September 2024

  • Vladimir Kara-Murza attends a court hearing in Moscow.

    Putin regime will collapse without warning, says freed gulag dissident

  • L-R: Igor Sergunin, Alexei Liptser Vadim Kobzev represented Alexei Navalny before he died in unclear circumstances.

    Three Navalny lawyers go on trial in Russia for ‘extremism’

August 2024

  • my student id 1992 in moscow

    Book of the day
    Goodbye to Russia by Sarah Rainsford review – falling foul of Putin

  • Three men sit in a row at a table with microphones on the table in front of them

    Russian dissidents freed in prisoner swap speak of deal ‘dilemma’

  • Plane on runway at night

    Russian prisoner swap deal was to have included Alexei Navalny

  • Reporter Evan Gershkovich is greeted on the tarmac by his mother, Ella Milman, left, as President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris look on at Andrews Air Force Base.

    Biden says ‘welcome home’ as Americans land in the US – as it happened

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