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AT AROUND 10:30pm last Monday, a few hours after Vladimir Putin’s inauguration, Alexei Navalny, a popular anti-corruption blogger, received a message as he was finishing a radio interview. A group of young people had gathered in a central square in Moscow—just sitting, talking and hanging around—and they wanted Mr Navalny to join them. He did, and thus began a now week-long experiment in a new form of Russian protest, one that often hardly looks like protest at all.
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Leading Russian anti-corruption blogger Alexei Navalny was elected to the board of Aeroflot, the Russian airline, during a company meeting Monday. Navalny was nominated by billionaire media tycoon Alexander Lebedev, who owns nearly ... Read Post

Alexei Navalny, the man many credit with inspiring the Moscow protests, has been released from prison after 15 days. The blogger quickly became the voice of the anti-Vladimir Putin protesters until he was arrested on Dec. 6 on charg... Read Post

MOSCOW | Russian blogger Alexei Navalny, who has emerged as one of the most potent new figures opposing Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's bid to regain the presidency, said he and many others in the opposition... Read Post