Amnesty International on Friday condemned a Russian court's sentencing of three lawyers for aiding the late opposition leader Alexei Navalny's Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK), calling the decision

Russia has sentenced three lawyers of late opposition leader Alexei Navalny to prison terms for transmitting his messages from prison to the outside world.

The United States on Friday condemned Russia's jailing of three members of late opposition leader Alexei Navalny's legal team as a new effort by Moscow to stamp out dissent.

The United States has condemned the sentencing of three lawyers representing Alexei Navalny in Russia. The State Department claims Russia's actions aim to intimidate and suppress defense lawyers' ability to perform their duties,

LONDON, Jan 10 (Reuters) - Russia's financial watchdog has rejected a request to remove late opposition leader Alexei Navalny from its list of "terrorists and extremists" even though he is dead ...

The German government on Friday condemned the jailing in Russia of three lawyers who had defended late opposition leader Alexei Navalny and called for their release.

Prosecutors accused the lawyers of "using their status" to give letters written by Navalny during his time in prison to his associates, enabling him to continue to lead an "extremist organisation", CNN reported, citing independent Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta.

Lawyers who represented the late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny are sentenced in a Kremlin crackdown on dissent at levels unseen since Soviet times.

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. The trio were almost the only people visiting Navalny in prison while he served his 19-year sentence.

France on Friday denounced an "act of intimidation" targeting lawyers in Russia after three members of late opposition leader Alexei Navalny's legal team were sentenced to several years in prison.

Three lawyers who once represented the late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny were convicted by a court Friday as part of the Kremlin's crackdown on diss