Jailed Kremlin Critic

Lawyers representing jailed Kremlin critic Vladimir Kara-Murza said Wednesday that they did not know the dissident's exact location after twice being denied access to the facility where he was supposed to be held.

Wearing a short-sleeved chequered shirt, 68-year-old Moscow paediatrician Nadezhda Buyanova faced court Thursday, like thousands before her, for having criticised the Kremlin's Ukraine offensive.

Jailed Russian opposition politician Ilya Yashin vowed on Tuesday to continue fighting for democracy in Russia after learning his friend and colleague, Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny, had died in prison.

Alexei Navalny's widow will meet European foreign ministers in Brussels on Monday, EU officials announced, as Russian courts jailed dozens of people detained at events commemorating the Kremlin critic.

Russian courts have sentenced dozens of people detained at events commemorating Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny to short prison sentences, official court announcements showed, with 154 sentenced in Saint Petersburg alone.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Friday called the death of jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny a "tragedy" and said it exposed Russian President Vladimir Putin as "a monster."

NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg said Friday there were "serious questions" for the Kremlin to answer over the death of jailed Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny.

Jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny has complained of being poisoned, assaulted and deprived of proper medical care, but on Monday he disclosed he faced a new challenge: being forced to listen to a pro-Putin pop singer at 0500 every morning.

The IK-3 penal colony in Kharp where Alexey Navalny is now being held, known as ''Polar Wolf,'' is ''one of the northernmost and most remote colonies.''

"The fact that we can't find Alexey is particularly worrying because he fell ill in his cell last week: he got dizzy and laid down on the floor," Mr Navalny's press secretary Kira Yarmys said.

Russia on Tuesday rejected an appeal lodged by Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny against a court decision to jail him for 19 years in a maximum security prison on extremism charges.

Jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny on Friday urged Russians to keep resisting the Kremlin after a Russian court sentenced him to 19 years in prison in a new trial.

Jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny appeared before a Russian court on Monday to defend himself against new charges of extremism that could extend his prison term by decades.

Outspoken Kremlin critic Vladimir Kara-Murza was jailed for a quarter of a century by a Moscow court on Monday, the harshest sentence of its kind since Russia invaded Ukraine, after being found guilty of treason and other offences he denied.

Russia's jailed opposition politician Alexei Navalny said Moscow's military defeat in Ukraine is "inevitable," even if the Kremlin sends more troops to the pro-Western country.

Lawyers representing jailed Kremlin critic Vladimir Kara-Murza said Wednesday that they did not know the dissident's exact location after twice being denied access to the facility where he was supposed to be held.

Wearing a short-sleeved chequered shirt, 68-year-old Moscow paediatrician Nadezhda Buyanova faced court Thursday, like thousands before her, for having criticised the Kremlin's Ukraine offensive.

Jailed Russian opposition politician Ilya Yashin vowed on Tuesday to continue fighting for democracy in Russia after learning his friend and colleague, Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny, had died in prison.

Alexei Navalny's widow will meet European foreign ministers in Brussels on Monday, EU officials announced, as Russian courts jailed dozens of people detained at events commemorating the Kremlin critic.

Russian courts have sentenced dozens of people detained at events commemorating Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny to short prison sentences, official court announcements showed, with 154 sentenced in Saint Petersburg alone.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Friday called the death of jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny a "tragedy" and said it exposed Russian President Vladimir Putin as "a monster."

NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg said Friday there were "serious questions" for the Kremlin to answer over the death of jailed Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny.

Jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny has complained of being poisoned, assaulted and deprived of proper medical care, but on Monday he disclosed he faced a new challenge: being forced to listen to a pro-Putin pop singer at 0500 every morning.

The IK-3 penal colony in Kharp where Alexey Navalny is now being held, known as ''Polar Wolf,'' is ''one of the northernmost and most remote colonies.''

"The fact that we can't find Alexey is particularly worrying because he fell ill in his cell last week: he got dizzy and laid down on the floor," Mr Navalny's press secretary Kira Yarmys said.

Russia on Tuesday rejected an appeal lodged by Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny against a court decision to jail him for 19 years in a maximum security prison on extremism charges.

Jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny on Friday urged Russians to keep resisting the Kremlin after a Russian court sentenced him to 19 years in prison in a new trial.

Jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny appeared before a Russian court on Monday to defend himself against new charges of extremism that could extend his prison term by decades.

Outspoken Kremlin critic Vladimir Kara-Murza was jailed for a quarter of a century by a Moscow court on Monday, the harshest sentence of its kind since Russia invaded Ukraine, after being found guilty of treason and other offences he denied.

Russia's jailed opposition politician Alexei Navalny said Moscow's military defeat in Ukraine is "inevitable," even if the Kremlin sends more troops to the pro-Western country.