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Alexei Navalny and his wife Yuliya after his release from jail on July 19, 2013Russian anti-corruption blogger Alexei Navalny called on supporters to protest results of Moscow’s mayoral election after Kremlin ally Sergei Sobyanin was elected to the post.… Continue Reading
Russian opposition leader Aleksei Navalny is back in Moscow campaigning to be mayor after his criminal conviction last week.
Navalny, left, arrived at a train station in Moscow on Saturday, where he thanked supporters and talked about his campaign.… Continue Reading
Alexei Navalny and supporters outside the Moscow Election Commission in June 2013 to file his papers to run for mayor (photo courtesy of Navalny’s blog)Aleksei Navalny, the Russian anti-corruption blogger whose popularity propelled him into the role of opposition leader, was convicted Thursday of embezzlement from a state-owned timber company and sentenced to five years in prison.… Continue Reading
Photo courtesy of Navalny’s livejournal blogRussia’s most popular anti-graft blogger filed papers this weekend to run for mayor of Moscow.
Aleksei Navalny, left, is one of eight candidates in the race.… Continue Reading
Photo courtesy of WikipediaRussia’s leading anti-corruption activist is being put on trial for embezzlement — charges he and his supporters say are phony and intended to punish him for exposing government fraud.… Continue Reading
Image courtesy of sovietstory.comA powerful Russian lawmaker who heads the Duma’s Anti-Corruption and Security Committee has been hit with allegations that she tried to conceal ownership of an apartment in Moscow worth nearly $3 million.… Continue Reading
Five members of Russia’s Duma have resigned from the parliament since December 2011, apparently pushed out of public life by a new breed of Russian bloggers.
The latest casualty, Vladimir Pekhtin, quit last week after blogger Andrei Zayaki found documents that he secretly owned $2 million of property in Florida.… Continue Reading
Russian anti-graft campaigner and opposition leader Alexei Navalny, left, and his brother Oleg face up to ten years in prison following charges Friday that they stole $1.8 million from a business through phony shipping charges.… Continue Reading
Russian anti-corruption activist and opposition leader Alexei Navalny is reportedly facing arrest on Monday for abusing his authority as a volunteer advisor to a regional governor.
The Independent said Navalny’s lawyers confirmed Russian media reports that Navlany will be charged Monday with extortion.… Continue Reading
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, left, on Wednesday signed the Anti-Bribery Convention of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).
The convention requires signatories to criminalize overseas bribery by their citizens and impose punishment for violations.… Continue Reading
Russia is so mired in corruption that nothing else there seems to matter.
It ranks 143 on the corruption perceptions index, tied with Nigeria and Uganda, among others.
It’s not just business that’s corrupt.… Continue Reading
Alexey Navalny, 34, left, who we’ve written about before, is a lawyer and shareholder activist.… Continue Reading
