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Jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny appears in a Russian court via video link at a pre-trial hearing. His team says authorities are preparing a major new trial against him. IMAGES
Following a closed-door trial, a Russian court announces it finds Kremlin critic Vladimir Kara-Murza guilty of high treason, spreading "false" information about the Russian army and being affiliated with an "undesirable organisation", resulting in a 25 year jail sentence. IMAGES
Russian police are present at a Moscow apartment of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny. A key Navalny aid reported that the apartment was being searched on grounds of violating sanitary and epidemiological measures, along with a second Moscow apartment owned by Navalny's wife Yulia and the Moscow office of his Anti-Corruption Foundation. IMAGES
Russian investigative journalist Ivan Golunov walks free from the Investigation Department of the Moscow Police after criminal charges against him are lifted. IMAGES
The street outside the Russian embassy in Washington is officially renamed Boris Nemtsov Plaza, in honor of the critic of Vladimir Putin who was murdered in 2015. IMAGES
The United States calls for the release of US-Russian journalist Alsu Kurmasheva, sentenced to more than six years in prison for violating strict military censorship laws. "Journalism is not a crime (...) and we continue to make very clear that she should be released," US State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller says during a press briefing. SOUNDBITE
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