Last August, a middle-aged Russian woman with her face covered walked onto Red Square in Moscow and, in the shadow of the ...

“Even more lawyers, including Alexandr Fedulov and Olga Mikhailova, two other former lawyers of Alexei Navalny, have had to flee the country and remain in exile facing similar charges,” she said.

It is widely believed that the poor conditions of the prison and the well-documented, appalling treatment of Navalny were contributing factors towards his death. Of course, this suggests that it was ...

FILE - 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, east of ...

Welcome to Bloomberg Law’s Wake Up Call, a daily rundown of the top news for lawyers, law firms, and in-house counsel. Vadim Kobzev, Igor Sergunin, and Alexei Liptser, lawyers who represented the late ...

Navalny was himself a lawyer and was known for his sardonic speeches in court, attempts to sue officials and long legal tirades defying prosecutors. He had denounced the arrest of his lawyers in ...

What makes the sentencing crucial is the fact that the trio were almost the only people who were visiting Navalny in prison while the opposition leader was serving his own 19-year-long jail term.

Amnesty International on Friday condemned a Russian court’s sentencing of three lawyers for aiding the late opposition leader Alexei Navalny’s Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK), calling the decision ...

Three lawyers for Alexey Navalny, the Kremlin critic who died last year in an Arctic prison, have been found guilty by a Russian court of belonging to an extremist group and jailed for several years.

"In this case, the Kremlin arrested and intimidated lawyers who were simply doing their jobs to ensure a political prisoner was afforded his right to legal representation, turning defense ...

Navalny was himself a lawyer and was known for his sardonic speeches in court, attempts to sue officials and long legal tirades defying prosecutors. He had denounced the arrest of his lawyers in ...

LONDON - 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 in a penal colony.