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 Soviet times.

January 17, is remembered in history as the day Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny set foot in Moscow after five months in Germany followed by his arrest at the Sheremetyevo Airport in 2021. In 1991,

Arrested in 2023, the lawyers were charged with extremism for relaying messages from Alexei Navalny while he was in prison before his death.

Vadim Kobzev, Igor Sergunin and Alexei Liptser, who once represented the late opposition leader Alexei Navalny, were all jailed for several years each by a court in the town of Petushki

LONDON - Three lawyers for the late opposition leader Alexei Navalny were found guilty by a Russian court on Friday of belonging to an extremist group and sentenced to years in a penal colony. Read more at straitstimes.

Russia on Friday sentenced three lawyers who had defended Alexei Navalny to several years in prison for bringing messages from the late opposition leader from prison to the outside world.

Vadim Kobzev, Alexei Liptser and Igor Sergunin ... a town about 115 kilometres (72 miles) east of Moscow – near the Pokrov prison where Navalny was held before he was moved to a remote colony ...

A Russian court handed down prison sentences of between 42 and 66 months Friday to three lawyers of the late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny after they were convicted of aiding his Anti Corruption Foundation.

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, about 120 ...

PETUSHKI, Russia (AP) — Three lawyers who once represented the late Russian opposition leader Alexei ... 2023, Navalny was moved from a penal colony in the Vladimir region east of Moscow to ...

Vadim Kobzev, Alexei Liptser and Igor Sergunin were found guilty of participating in an ‘extremist organisation’.

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