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Criminal charges against a high-profile opposition leader Alexei Navalny brought about a lot of interest among both Russian and Western media outlets. As the hearing of the criminal case is scheduled on April 24, Russia Beyond The Headlines follows the trial.

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ECHR awards opposition leader Navalny compensation in Kirovles case

February 23, 2016 Interfax

The court ruled to pay Navalny and Ofitserov in aggregate over 80,000 euro

Alexei Navalny at the Lyublinsky district court in Moscow, on 13 May. Source: EPA

Refusal to jail Navalny nothing but political expediency, say observers

May 15, 2015 Yekaterina Sinelschikova, RBTH

Moscow court rules once again not to imprison opposition figurehead

Court refuses to replace Navalny's suspended term with imprisonment

May 13, 2015 Interfax, Interfax

A Moscow court on Wednesday threw out an appeal from the Federal Penal Service (FSIN) to scrap opposition leader Alexei Navalny's five-year suspended sentence ordered for him in the Kirovles case and to put him in prison, an Interfax correspondent reported from the court

Court rejects FSIN request to replace Navalny's probation with prison term

March 17, 2015 Interfax, Interfax

The Lyublinsky District Court in Moscow has rejected a request by the Federal Penitentiary Service (FSIN) to change the suspended sentence with a real prison term for the opposition activist Alexei Navalny as part of the Kirovles case

Navalny appeal against decision to keep him under arrest on Nemtsov funeral day to be heard March 4

March 2, 2015 RBTH

The Moscow City Court on March 4 will hear opposition campaigner Alexei Navalny's appeal against the court's decision not to suspend his administrative arrest for attending Boris Nemtsov's funeral

Memorial center recognizes brothers Navalny as political prisoners

January 22, 2015 Interfax, Interfax

The Russian human rights center Memorial has recognized the brothers Alexei and Oleg Navalny as political prisoners

Court refuses to consider freeing of Oleg Navalny from detention

January 14, 2015 Interfax, Interfax

Moscow's Tverskoi District Court has refused to consider an appeal filed by the defense team for Oleg Navalny, a brother of prominent opposition activist Alexei Navalny, against the Federal Corrections Service's decision to place him in a detention facility

State prosecution contests Navalny brothers' sentences in Yves Rocher case

January 13, 2015 Interfax, Interfax

The State Prosecutor has lodged an appeal with the Moscow City Court contesting the sentences given by a lower court to the Navalny brothers, Alexei and Oleg, in the so-called Yves Rocher case, a source familiar with the situation told Interfax on Tuesday

Still from a video shot by a drone at Manezhnaya Square on Dec. 30. Source: Karlsson Project/Vimeo.com

Everything you wanted to know about the Dec. 30 rally in support of Navalny

December 31, 2014 Kira Egorova, RBTH

RBTH lists five things you need to take into account to be able to support any conversation about Navalny and the current state of the Russian opposition

Oleg Navalny taken to Moscow's Butyrka jail

December 30, 2014 Interfax, Interfax

Russia's Federal Penal Service (FSIN) confirmed that Oleg Navalny had been put in Moscow's Butyrka detention center after he and his brother opposition activist Alexei Navalny were convicted on Tuesday of large-scale fraud and money laundering

Police detain opposition leader Navalny in central Moscow

December 30, 2014 Interfax, Interfax

Police have detained opposition activist Alexei Navalny near the Ritz Carlton Hotel in the center of Moscow after he appeared there on Tuesday evening, so violating the terms of his house arrest

Navalny's Twitter says he is heading for Manezhnaya Square despite house arrest

December 30, 2014 Interfax, Interfax

Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who was given a suspended sentence of 3 years and 6 months in prison earlier on Tuesday in a criminal case dealing with embezzlement from the French cosmetics firm Yves Rocher, has said on Twitter that he is heading for Manezhnaya Square in Moscow, where his supporters reportedly planned to gather on Tuesday evening

Russian opposition activist Alexei Navalny reacts to the decision by a Moscow court to give him a suspended sentence of 3.5 years

December 30, 2014 Gazeta Russa

Oleg Navalny to be held in remand center pending appeal hearing

December 30, 2014 Interfax, Interfax

Russian opposition activist Alexei Navalny's brother, Oleg, who was sentenced to three years and six months on Tuesday for fraud in relation to the Russian subsidiary of the French cosmetics company Yves Rocher, will be placed in a Moscow remand center pending a hearing into his appeal, a law enforcement agency source told Interfax

Alexey (left) and Oleg Navalny. Source: AP

Opposition activist Navalny gets suspended sentence in Yves Rocher case

December 30, 2014 Interfax, Interfax

The court has given him a suspended sentence of 3,5 years

Sentence to Navalny brothers to be read on December 30

December 29, 2014 Interfax, Interfax

The Moscow Zamoskvoretsky Court has rescheduled the reading of the sentence to brothers Alexei and Oleg Navalny in the Yves Rocher case because the sentence is ready

State Prosecutor seeks ten-year prison term for Navalny

December 19, 2014 Interfax, Interfax

The State Prosecutor on Friday asked Moscow's Zamoskvoretsky Court to find Russian opposition activist Alexei Navalny guilty and to sentence him to ten years in prison for money laundering and defrauding a Russian subsidiary of the French cosmetics company Yves Rocher out of about 26 million rubles, an Interfax correspondent has reported

Opposition leaders at an anti-Putin protest. From left, Boris Nemtsov, Sergei Udaltsov and Alexei Navalny. Source: Yuri Kozyrev / NOOR

Is the protest movement dead?

December 16, 2014 Ilya Krol, Yevgeny Levkovich, special to RBTH

Street politics in decline as  reform agenda loses appeal

Court decides to not arrest Navalny on charges of Yves Rocher case

August 1, 2014 Interfax, Interfax

The Moscow Zamoskvoretsky Court has decided not to put into custody opposition activist Alexei Navalny, who, along with his brother Oleg, is charged with fraud and money laundering in the Yves Rocher case

Navalny ally under house arrest on charge of large-scale fraud

June 11, 2014 Interfax, Interfax

An ally of opposition leader Alexei Navalny was put under house arrest after being charged with complicity in an alleged scheme involving the theft of donations totaling more than 10 million rubles for Navalny's mayoral election campaign last year