Alexei Navalny

Opposition leader Alexei Navalny has been arrested at an anti-corruption rally organised in Russia's capital Moscow, reported BBC.

There are anti-corruption protest demonstrations all over Russia on Sunday demanding the resignation of PM Dmitry Medvedev because of corruption accusations. Thousands of people are participating in the protests.

Police detained dozens of protesters across Russia on March 26, including opposition leader Alexei Navalny, after thousands took to  the streets to demonstrate against corruption and demand the resignation of Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev.
   

Thousands of people crowded into Moscow’s Pushkin Square on Sunday for an unsanctioned protest against the Russian government, part of a wave of demonstrations taking place throughout the country.

A Russian court found opposition leader Alexei Navalny guilty of embezzlement. According to a report by Interfax the decision takes away from the Russian politician the right to run for President in the 2018 elections.

The decision has not been officially announced yet, but one his lawyers stated that the decision will indeed have these political repercussions.

Bulgaria has appeared in Russian news outlet Vedomosti's list of states where certain people "concentrate political power and basic economoic assets".

Other countries mentioned as part of studies by several scholars include Guinea-Bissau, Montenegro, Burma, and Venezuela.

Pictures of Russian President Vladimir Putin?s spokesman flashing a watch worth an alleged $620,000 on Aug. 3 sparked controversy in the crisis-hit country.

Russia has warned Google, Twitter and Facebook to comply with laws requiring internet companies to transmit data on Russian bloggers who have more than 3,000 readers a day, Reuters has reported.

The Russian Justice Ministry revoked the registration of the Russian opposition figure Alexei Navalny's Party of Progress on Tuesday.

The ministry decided to declare the document of the party's state registration invalid and to exclude information on the party and its structural divisions from the Uniform State Register of Legal Entities.

Opposition leader and prominent blogger Alexey Navalny has been released from his 15-day custody in Moscow, his press secretary says.

Navalny was sentenced to a fortnight of administrative detention over multiple actions promoting a demonstation.

Boris Nemtsov, who was shot dead in Moscow late on February 27, was well-known as an oppositional leader and one of the main figures to harshly criticize Russia's politics as led by President Vladimir Putin.