Belarus on Sunday held an orchestrated election virtually guaranteed to give its 70-year-old autocrat, Alexander Lukashenko, ...

Five years after widespread protests tried and failed to topple Alexander Lukashenko, he has once again been re-elected as ...

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Lawyers Igor Sergunin, from left, Alexei Liptser and Vadim Kobzev, who all once represented late opposition leader Alexei Navalny ... of hostages Secrets of Alexander the Great mosaic revealed ...

Three lawyers who once represented the late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny have been jailed in Russia as part of the Kremlin’s crackdown on dissent that has reached levels unseen since Sovie ...

Officials have rejected the accusation.Two other Navalny lawyers, Olga Mikhailova and Alexander Fedulov, are on a wanted list but no longer live in Russia. Mikhailova, who defended Navalny for a ...

The reality is that many of the elections last year were fake and that the world runneth over with dictators, authoritarians and their wannabes.

Officials have rejected the accusation. Two other Navalny lawyers, Olga Mikhailova and Alexander Fedulov, are on a wanted list but no longer live in Russia. Mikhailova, who defended Navalny for a ...