"Alexei Navalny"

MOSCOW - A closed-door Moscow court hearing Monday is expected to officially ban the political and anti-corruption networks of jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny, a ruling that would mark the most sweeping attempt to crush the Kremlins greatest political threat.

MOSCOW - Jailed Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny declared a hunger strike on Wednesday after unsuccessful attempts to get medical care for severe back pain, according to an Instagram post in his name.

MOSCOW -- A Moscow judge denied Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny's appeal for release from detention Thursday, after the opposition leader slammed the court process and thanked protesters for showing that his supporters "cannot be intimidated."

Navalny has interpreted the crackdown against him as a sign of Putin’s fear. But the Kremlin has insisted that Navalny had violated the law.

MOSCOW - Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny called on Russians to take to the streets in mass protests after a court ordered Monday that he be held in custody for 30 days after his return to Russia.

MOSCOW - In his return to Russia on Sunday, five months after he left in a coma from a near-fatal poisoning, Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny made it as far as border control.

MOSCOW - A screeching power tool sliced through Alexei Navalny's office door last Dec. 26, and a burly, masked Special Operations forces officer burst in, followed by another, and another - at least 20 in all. Within a minute, they dragged the Russian opposition leader out as he vainly grabbed for the door frame.

MOSCOW - Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was poisoned with a nerve agent similar to Novichok, the German government said Wednesday, citing "unequivocal" evidence of the presence of the toxin.