Alexei Navalny
How British scientists found Putin’s frog poison – and exposed a secret chemical arsenal
Supporters of the late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny embarked on a daring mission to show the world what really happened to him.
- Timothy Sigsworth, Rozina Sabur and James Rothwell
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Russia poisoned Alexei Navalny with dart frog toxin, European nations say
The foreign ministries of the UK, France, Germany, Sweden and the Netherlands said analysis in European labs of samples taken from Navalny’s body “conclusively confirmed the presence” of the neurotoxin.
- Jill Lawless
- Analysis
- Political leadership
Daniel Andrews doesn’t care, but he has lost his moral compass
Footage of Andrews posing with Kim Jong-un and Vladimir Putin is not just an opportunity to try out some jokes about Dictator Dan. It’s actually quite serious.
- James Massola
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- Vladimir Putin
Yulia Navalnaya is in Australia with a blunt message about Putin, the president who murdered her husband
In an Australian exclusive, Peter Hartcher sits down with the freedom-fighting wife of anti-corruption campaigner Alexei Navalny who died last year while in jail.
- Peter Hartcher
‘Horrific’: Roxburgh on reliving Peter Greste’s Egyptian jail hell for the big screen
When journalist Peter Greste was languishing in a Cairo prison cell, he could little imagine that one day, Richard Roxburgh would portray his ordeal in a film.
- David Leser
Alexei Navalny’s memoir is a reminder of literature’s true purpose
The posthumous memoir is a bittersweet portrait of Russia’s most prominent opposition figure.
- Kurt Johnson
Vladimir Putin unlikely to have ordered death of Alexei Navalny, US official says
The intelligence community has found “no smoking gun” that the Russian president was aware of the timing of Navalny’s death or that he directly ordered it.
- Aamer Madhani
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- Putin's Russia
Putin parades his ‘rivals’ at Red Square victory concert
The Russian president said he supported an idea, discussed before Alexei Navalny’s death, of exchanging the opposition figure for Russians imprisoned in the West.
- Dasha Litvinova and Emma Burrows
Putin poised to rule Russia for six more years after an election with no real choices
Navalny’s team are asking Russians to flock to polling stations Sunday at noon local time across the country’s 11 time zones to demonstrate their discontent with Putin’s rule.
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- Putin's Russia
Crowds turn out in Moscow for the funeral of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny
Supporters gathered to bid farewell to Alexei Navalny at a funeral in Moscow following his still-unexplained death in an Arctic penal colony.
- Dasha Litvinova and Katie Marie Davies