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ABC News (MOSCOW) — Jailed Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny has been located in a remote penal colony in Siberia after his lawyers and associates have been unable to contact him for nearly three weeks, Navalny’s spokeswoman said Monday. Navalny was located in IK-3 in the village of Kharp in the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug part […]

belterz/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Jailed Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny’s team says they don’t know where he is after the prison camp where he was being held told them he’s no longer there, Navalny’s spokeswoman said Monday. The spokeswoman, Kyra Yarmysh, said his lawyers tried to see Navalny on Monday at the prison but […]

SERGEI ILNITSKY/POOL/AFP via Getty Images (LONDON) — Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has hailed deepening relations between Russia and North Korea during his two-day diplomatic trip to Pyongyang in commemoration of the 75th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic ties between the two nations. Lavrov arrived in Pyongyang on Wednesday, flying from Beijing where he […]

Brais Seara/Getty Images (LONDON) — An uncrewed Russian spacecraft spun out of control during orbit and crashed into the moon, according to the country’s space agency. The Luna-25 craft lost contact with officials in Russia following an “abnormal situation” and crashed on Saturday, Roscosmos said in a statement to Interfax, a Russian news agency. Moscow’s lunar […]

Witthaya Prasongsin/Getty Images (LONDON) — A Russian judge denied the appeal of Evan Gershkovich, a Wall Street Journal reporter who has been charged with spying, in a Moscow court on Tuesday. The reporter, a correspondent with the paper’s Moscow bureau, stands accused of “acting on the instructions of the American side” and collecting state secrets […]

Darrin Klimek/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The team of Russia’s top opposition leader, Alexey Navalny, is a sounding the alarm that his health is seriously deteriorating in prison and that an ambulance was called for him last Friday night because of “acute stomach pain.” Kira Yarmysh, Navalny’s spokeswoman, tweeted that Navalny had lost 8 kilograms […]