Alexei Navalny

Imprisoned Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny is in failing health because of a new suspected poisoning and is back in a punishment cell after a few days in regular confinement, a spokeswoman said Wednesday.

Yulia Navalny took the stage with the documentary filmmakers behind “Navalny,” which won an Academy Award for best documentary feature.

Allies of imprisoned opposition politician Alexei Navalny sounded the alarm Tuesday when they discovered he was no longer in the prison where he had been serving his time and there was no word on where he had been taken. But late in the day, the chairman of a prison monitoring commission said Navalny had been transferred to a maximum-security prison…

Russia has unleashed a harsh crackdown on dissent over the past year by imprisoning opposition leader Alexei Navalny and silencing his supporters and his organization.

The trial has drawn widespread critics who say the charges are merely an attempt to keep President Vladimir Putin’s most ardent foe in prison for as long as possible.

A new trial against Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has opened at the penal colony where he already is serving a prison term

A drama about an undocumented nanny in New York City, a documentary about three exiled dissidents from Tiananmen Square and another doc about Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny have won top prizes at the Sundance Film Festival