First, some good news – because a lot of readers probably need a bit of good news this week. According to the climate think ...

Last week, a Russian court sentenced three lawyers who had represented the country’s leading opposition politician, Alexei ...

Vadim Kobzev was sentenced to five and a half years, Alexei Liptser was handed five years and Igor Sergunin three and a half ...

The three lawyers who used to represent the late opposition leader Alexei Navalny: Igor Sergunin, Alexei Liptser and Vadim Kobzev (L-R in the defendants’ cage), accused of participating in an ...

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 ...

Vadim Kobzev, Alexei Liptser and Igor Sergunin were found guilty of participating in an "extremist organisation" by a court in the town of Petushki. Kobzev, the most high-profile member of Navalny ...

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 ...

Vadim Kobzev, Igor Sergunin and Alexei Liptser were already in custody and were given sentences ranging from 3 1/2 to five years by a court in the town of Petushki, about 100 kilometers (60 miles ...