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"I want to express my sympathy and support to the Russians that continue to dare to work for a different and better Russia," says Foreign Minister Espen Barth Eide.

"Anyone can become a target regardless of location," says Novaya Gazeta Europa editor Kirill Martynov after Navalny ally Leonid Volkov Tuesday evening was attacked with a hammer and tear gas outside his home in Lithuania.

On March 6 a city court in Moscow sentenced RusNews journalist Roman Ivanov to seven years in prison for violating the law on fake news about the Russian army.

Russian authorities are responsible for Aleksei Navalny's death, the Norwegian Prime Minister makes clear.

Russian prison services on Friday reported that the opposition politician died in the remote Arctic prison camp of Kharp.

Voters in Finland head to the polls on Sunday in a presidential election important for the country’s foreign policy amid tensions with Russia.

Ruslan Akhmetshin, an activist and photographer from Arkhangelsk in Northern Russia, who was sentenced to 2.5 years in October 2022, was released from prison on December 15. The reason for his conviction was several comments and shared posts on social media in which the activist did not agree that Victory Day is a holiday of fun. In an interview with The Barents Observer, Ruslan spoke about his feelings on his first day of freedom, prison life and plans for the future.

"I would not want anyone to sit in that jail," a former inmate says of the far northern penal colony that now houses Russia's leading opposition politician.

The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) is presented as enemy of Russia in bizarre propaganda exhibition onboard naval vessel Ivan Gren.

"The justification for declaring me a "foreign agent" is ridiculous," says Georgii Chentemirov.

Nikita Tushkanov from the north Russian Komi Republic is called a ´terrorist and extremist´ by Russian authorities. This week, a military court prolonged his arrest with another month.