Alexei Navalny

President Gitanas Nausėda says two individuals were detained in Poland as suspects in attacking Russian opposition figure Leonid Volkov in Vilnius.

Law enforcement says that a large police force responded to a report on Tuesday about an attack in Vilnius on Leonid Volkov, a colleague of late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny.

Socialiniuose tinkluose masiškai plinta žinutės, kuriose melagingai teigiama, kad Rusijos opozicionierius Aleksejus Navalnas mirties priežastis yra tai, kad jis keturis kartus buvo paskiepytas „Pfizer“ vakcina nuo COVID-19 ir dėl to širdyje susidarė kraujo krešulys.

30 октября известен в России как День памяти жертв политических репрессий.

Is there opposition in Russia? Do Russian people support the war? Are liberal ideas popular only in Moscow and a few other large cities: myth or reality? Why did Putin’s regime decide to kill Nemtsov and imprison Navalny? You will hear answers to these and many other questions in Delfi’s interview w...

Political emigrant Anastasia Shevchenko speaks about Alexei Navalny, war, and children's destiny in Russia.

Pirmiausia pasirodė gaisrai, Sibiro dangų pavertę tūkstančius kilometrų nusidriekusia dūmų siena. Tada atėjo sausra, beveik visiškai išdžiovinusi Lenos upę ir palikusi tik purve įklimpusius laivus. Ši vasara šaltojoje Rusijos tolimųjų rytų apygardoje Jakutijoje buvo sunki.

Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Linas Linkevičius on Saturday called for the international community's attention to the detention of protesters in Russia.

The reaction of the Baltic states on re-election of Vladimir Putin as Russia's president has split – Estonia's president sent a congratulatory message to Moscow, while Lithuania's leader decided to refrain.

Daniil Konstantinov, a Russian opposition activist who has been granted asylum in Lithuania, warns that Russia's authorities and special services are preparing for mass protests.

The Russian presidential election will take place in a month, but the winner is already clear. The only candidate capable of receiving wider support from voters, Alexey Navalny, has been banned from registering as a candidate due to his criminal record, stemming from a fraud conviction he views as i...

Last week's nationwide protests in Russia initiated by opposition leader Aleksei Navalny were covered online by his associates who were in Lithuania at that time, The New York Times has reported.

Vilnius hosted a two-day annual Free Russia Forum organized by the team of Russian chess legend and opposition activist Garry Kasparov.

The Lithuanian Foreign Ministry on Tuesday expressed its concern over the detention of demonstrators in Russia and called for their immediate release.

The Lithuanian Foreign Ministry on Monday expresses its concern over the detention of peaceful demonstrators during nationwide protests in Russia against corruption and called for their release.

The results of the elections to the Russian Duma, which took place on 18th September, showed that voters have an apathetic attitude towards the situation in the country, and do not cultivate any warm feelings for the ruling United Russia Party. President Vladimir Putin‘s party secured a win, yet vot...

The Russian parliamentary (Duma) elections on September 18 do not promise any major changes. Opinion polls and the general atmosphere show that the country will continue to be led by the United Russia party which is affiliated with Vladimir Putin, while establishment opposition parties will support ...

Nitika Kulachenkov, a close fellow of the prominent Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny who has been detained in Cyprus at Russia's request, maintains he is being prosecuted for “stealing” a €2 poster and pledges to return to Lithuania shortly.

The Kremlin has not set any rules or issued any oral recommendations prohibiting state officials or the heads of state companies to mention the name of opposition leader Alexei Navalny, presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Monday.