More than 2,600 people have been arrested after protests erupted in at least 60 Russian cities to demand the release of opposition leader Alexei Navalny, the Kremlin’s most prominent foe.
Russian police arrested hundreds of protesters who took to the streets in freezing temperatures on Saturday to demand the release of opposition leader Alexei Navalny.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has rejected allegations the Kremlin was behind the poisoning of opposition leader Alexei Navalny.
A former Russian spy who was poisoned by deadly nerve agent Novichok has a live-in nurse assisting him as he recovers from his near-death experience, his daughter has said.
The flat where a woman was fatally poisoned with the nerve agent Novichok is being demolished.
Showing a new television drama about the Salisbury Novichok poisonings to the families linked to the story was “very intense and moving”, according to the programme’s executive producer.
The parents of a police officer poisoned in the Salisbury Novichok attack have criticised plans for a TV drama about the incident.
The Novichok poisonings have inspired a new BBC drama.
Police are believed to have identified the suspected perpetrators of the Novichok attack on Russian former spy Sergei Skripal.
Police are believed to have identified the suspected perpetrators of the Novichok attack on Russian former spy Sergei Skripal.
International experts have finished their initial work collecting samples linked to the Novichok poisonings.
International experts have finished their initial work collecting samples linked to the Novichok poisonings.
Novichok was developed by the Soviet Union in the 1970s as a new kind of chemical weapon that would be harder to detect, more potent than existing nerve agents and exempt from the Chemical Weapons Treaty.