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 ...

Vadim Kobzev, Igor Sergunin and Alexei Liptser were already in custody and were given sentences ranging from 3 1/2 to five ...

By Mark Trevelyan LONDON (Reuters) -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 ...

Vadim Kobzev, Igor Sergunin and Alexei Liptser were jailed from 3 1/2 to 5 1/2 years. They were arrested in 2023 on charges of involvement with extremist groups, as Navalny’s networks were deemed by ...

A UN independent human rights expert on Tuesday called for an end to Russia’s severe crackdown on the legal profession, ...

The trio were arrested as authorities intensified pressure on the jailed Kremlin critic, who died last February.

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 ...

Vadim Kobzev, Igor Sergunin and Alexei Liptser were arrested in October 2023, four months before Navalny died at age 47 at a remote correctional facility inside the Arctic in February, on charges ...

Igor Sergunin, Alexei Liptser and Vadim Kobzev were arrested in October 2023 and added the following month to an official list of "terrorists and extremists". They were sentenced respectively to 3 ...