NPR's Scott Simon remembers Russian opposition leader Alexi Navalny, who died a year ago Sunday in a Russian prison.

A year has passed since Alexei Navalny died in a Russian penal colony — a death his supporters believe was ordered by the Kremlin. Twelve months later, President Vladimir Putin and his inner circle, ...

Navalny battled for an alternative to Putin’s regime – and paid the ultimate price. The Kremlin has made sure there cannot be ...

As Benjamin Franklin once said, ‘nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.’ In the case of Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich, both of these certainties have created significant ...

Lana Pylaeva was born and raised in Russia’s northwestern republic of Komi in a family of Komi, a Finno-Ugric ethnic group indigenous to the region. A scientist by training, Pylaeva had been living ...

By failing to address Russian imperialism and continuing to claim equal victimhood to Ukraine, Navalny promoted an ...

Five people have been indicted over a food poisoning case at a Malaysian restaurant chain in Taiwan that left six diners dead. The fatal incident took place at Polam Kopitiam’s Xinyi branch in ...

Navalny barely survived a poisoning in 2020 with the Soviet-designed ... Vadim Kobzev was sentenced to five and a half years, Alexei Liptser was handed five years and Igor Sergunin three and ...

FILE - Lawyers Igor Sergunin, from left, Alexei Liptser and Vadim Kobzev, all who once represented late opposition leader Alexei Navalny, stand in a courtroom in Petushki, Vladimir region, east of ...