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FILE - In this Friday, Aug. 23, 2019 file photo, Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny speaks to the media as he leaves a detention center after his release, in Moscow, Russia. Russian officials have designated the nonprofit organization behind major anti-corruption investigations as a foreign agent in a move that is likely to hinder their activities. The organization is founded by opposition leader Alexei Navalny. (AP Photo/Dmitry Serebryakov, File)

Russia lists Navalny’s anti-fraud group as a foreign agent

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Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny shows his ballot as he arrives to vote during a city council election in Moscow, Russia, Sunday, Sept. 8, 2019. Residents of Russia's capital are voting in a city council election that is shadowed by a wave of protests that saw the biggest demonstrator turnout in seven years and a notably violent police response. (AP Photo/Andrew Lubimov)

Russian police raid opposition activists’ homes in 43 cities

By NATALIYA VASILYEVA - Associated Press

Russian leader Alexei Navalny speaks to the media prior to a court session in Moscow, Russia, Thursday, Aug. 22, 2019. Navalny is due in court, where a judge will consider extending his detention in lieu of days spent in hospital, where he was being treated for an allergic attack at the end of July. Navalny was due to be released on Friday after serving 30 days for calling an unsanctioned protest. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

Navalny to be released Friday, court rejects term extension

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Alexei Navalny, Russia's most prominent opposition figure, who has been detained by police and charged with unlawfully organizing a public gathering, sits in a court room as his lawyer Olga Mikhailova, left, reads documents in Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, July 24, 2019. Navalny has called for demonstrators to protest on Saturday outside the mayor's office against the rejection of several opposition candidates from the ballot for this fall's Moscow city council elections. (AP Photo/Dmitry Serebryakov)

Putin opponent sent back to jail after suspected poisoning

By NATALIYA VASILYEVA - Associated Press

This Monday, July 29, 2019 handout photo released by navalny.com shows Alexei Navalny, Russia's most prominent opposition figure, sitting on a bed in a hospital, in Moscow, Russia. Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was discharged from a hospital Monday even though his physician raised suspicions of a possible poisoning after he suffered facial swelling and a rash while in jail. (navalny.com via AP)

Alexei Navalny sent back to jail after suspected poisoning

By Nataliya Vasilyeva - Associated Press

FILE - In this Saturday, July 20, 2019, file photo, Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny attends a protest in Moscow, Russia. Navalny remained hospitalized for a second day on Monday, July 29, 2019, after his physician said he may have been poisoned. Details about Navalny's condition were scarce after Navalny was rushed to a hospital Sunday from a detention facility where he was serving a 30-day sentence for calling an unsanctioned protest. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin, File)

The Latest: Doctor: Russian opposition leader discharged

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Alexei Navalny, Russia's most prominent opposition figure, who has been detained by police and charged with unlawfully organizing a public gathering, sits in a court room in Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, July 24, 2019. Navalny has called for demonstrators to protest on Saturday outside the mayor's office against the rejection of several opposition candidates from the ballot for the Moscow city council elections. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin)

Alexei Navalny, Russian opposition leader, may have been poisoned, doctor says

By Nataliya Vasilyeva - Associated Press

Alexei Navalny, Russia's most prominent opposition figure, who has been detained by police and charged with unlawfully organizing a public gathering, sits in a court room in Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, July 24, 2019. Navalny has called for demonstrators to protest on Saturday outside the mayor's office against the rejection of several opposition candidates from the ballot for the Moscow city council elections. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin)

Alexei Navalny, Russian opposition leader, hospitalized after severe allergy attack in jail

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Russian President Vladimir Putin visits the museum of Alexander Solzhenitsyn House of Russia Abroad in Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, July 24, 2019. (Mikhail Metze, Sputnik/TASS News Agency, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

Alexei Navalny detained on Moscow jog after protests

By Rachel Greenland - The Washington Times

European court: Russia’s house arrest of Navalny unlawful

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Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny smiles before his hearing at the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, eastern France, Thursday, Nov.15, 2018. Russia is awaiting the European court ruling on whether it violated the rights of Navalny when arresting him on repeated occasions. (AP Photo/Jean-Francois Badias)

European court: Russia’s arrests of Navalny were political

By MSTYSLAV CHERNOV - Associated Press

In this selfie photo released by Anti-corruption Foundation Press Service, Russian anti-corruption crusader Alexei Navalny at Domodedovo international airport outside Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, Nov. 13, 2018. Navalny was stopped at the border Tuesday and barred from leaving Russia as he was about to travel to a court hearing at the European Court for Human Rights in France. (Alexei Navalny/Anti-corruption Foundation press service via AP)

The Latest: Navalny hails European court victory

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Putin’s ex-bodyguard rejects TV debate after duel challenge

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Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny leaves a detention center in Moscow, Russia, Sunday, Oct. 14, 2018. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin)

Navalny accepts National Guard challenge to a verbal ‘duel’

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In this video grab taken from Rosguardia official website, National Guard chief Viktor Zolotov speaks as he records an emotional speech, posted on the National Guard's YouTube channel in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2018. President Vladimir Putin's former bodyguard and chief of the National Guard has challenged opposition leader Alexei Navalny to a duel. (Rosguardia Press Service via AP)

Putin’s ex-bodyguard challenges Navalny to duel

By NATALIYA VASILYEVA - Associated Press

In this video grab taken from Rosguardia official website, National Guard chief Viktor Zolotov speaks as he records an emotional speech, posted on the National Guard's YouTube channel in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2018. President Vladimir Putin's former bodyguard and chief of the National Guard has challenged opposition leader Alexei Navalny to a duel. (Rosguardia Press Service via AP)

Viktor Zolotov challenges Alexei Navalny to duel

By Nataliya Vasilyeva - Associated Press

In this photo taken on Monday, Feb. 12, 2018, Yekaterinburg mayor Yevgeny Roizman talks to The Associated Press in his office in Yekaterinburg, Russia. Yekateringburg mayor Yevgeny Roizman openly criticizes President Vladimir Putin and has called for a boycott of Sunday’s presidential vote, a move advocated by Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who is banned from running. (AP Photo/Nataliya Vasilyeva)

Russia’s rebel mayor calls for presidential election boycott

By NATALIYA VASILYEVA - Associated Press

Anastasia Vashukevich posted a video online while inside a prison vehicle pleading with "friends, American press" for help. She claimed she and her Russian lover secretly recorded "Manafort and Trump and all that buzz around the U.S. elections." (Associated Press/File)

Anastasia Vashukevich says she has Trump, Russia dirt

By Richard S. Ehrlich Special to The Washington Times

In this file photo taken on Sunday, Jan. 28, 2018, Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, center, attends a rally in Moscow, Russia. Russia's communication providers have blocked access to the website of opposition leader Alexei Navalny on orders of the state communications watchdog. The agency, Roskomnadzor, demanded that Navalny remove a video alleging that Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Prikhodko received lavish hospitality from billionaire Oleg Deripaska following a court order or face his web resources being shut. (AP Photo/Evgeny Feldman, File)

Jailed Kremlin call girl offers info on Trump-Russia links for freedom

By Richard S. Ehrlich - Special to The Washington Times

Russian President Vladimir Putin applauds during an award ceremony in the Kremlin, in Moscow, Russia, Thursday, Dec. 28, 2017, for Russian Armed Forces service personnel who took part in the anti-terrorist operation in Syria. Putin said at Thursday's award ceremony that Wednesday's explosion at a supermarket in the country's second-largest city was a terrorist attack. (Kirill Kudryavtsev/Pool Photo via AP)

Vladimir Putin battles Alexei Navalny boycott, voter apathy in Russia election

By Marc Bennetts - Special to The Washington Times