A Moscow court has ordered Russia’s most prominent opposition leader Alexei Navalny to serve 30 days in prison
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News about the struggle for democracy in Russia. Russia is not a functioning democracy. According to Freedom House, "limited political competition, assassination, and repression are used by dictator Vladimir Putin to maintain control". Also see our articles on Putin or on two of his public opponents Alexei Navalny and the punk band Pussy Riot.
GOP-led Senate Panel Confirms Russian Election Meddling in 2016
The committee’s investigation had shown Russia interfered in the 2016 U.S. presidential election to help Donald Trump
Transatlantic Election Commission Founded to Focus on Hacking
An international commission has formed to try to end meddling in elections in Western democratic nations
New Revealing Info Details Tennessee Election Hacking Attack
Investigators found evidence of a “malicious intrusion” into a Tennessee county’s elections website
Comparing Armenia’s Velvet Revolution With Ukraine, Georgia
Protests have been building for the last two weeks over an alleged power grab by the former prime minister
Few Answers in Bizarre Case of Russian Influence at the NRA
Someone needs to get to the bottom of a Russian oligarch’s funding of the NRA gun rights group
DNC Lawsuit Blames Election Loss on Trump-Russia Alliance
DNC sued President Donald Trump’s campaign, Trump’s son, his son-in-law, the Russian Federation and Wikileaks
Russia Blocking Millions of IP Addresses in Mass Crackdown
From Voice of America: The chief of the Russian communications watchdog acknowledged Wednesday that millions of unrelated
A political insider’s thriller novels predicted U.S. election interference
David Pepper began wrote a novel about a foreign country’s attempts to influence the outcome of an American election
Russian Court Bans Secure Messaging App Telegram
Blocking Telegram is another attack on the Russian people’s freedom of expression and right to privacy