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Leonid Volkov, chief of staff for the 2018 presidential election of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, looks on, at the European Parliament in Strasbourg, eastern France, Dec. 15, 2021. Two people have been detained in Poland on suspicion of attacking Russian opposition activist Leonid Volkov, an ally of the late activist Alexei Navalny, Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda announced on Friday, April 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Jean-Francois Badias, File)

2 suspects detained in Poland after last month’s attack on a Navalny ally in Lithuania

By Liudas Dapkus and Monika Scislowska - Associated Press

Russia's Leonid Volkov, chief of staff for the 2018 presidential election for Alexei Navalny's campaign, looks on, at the European Parliament in Strasbourg, eastern France, Dec. 15, 2021. Associates of the late opposition leader Alexei Navalny reported on Tuesday night that the politician’s close ally and top strategist was attacked near his home in Lithuania. Navalny’s spokesman Kira Yarmysh said the assailant smashed a window of Leonid Volkov’s car, sprayed tear gas into his eyes and started hitting him with a hammer. (AP Photo/Jean-Francois Badias, File)

Ally of late Navalny accuses ‘Putin’s henchmen’ of attacking him in Lithuania, vows not to give up

By Liudas Dapkus - Associated Press

In this photo provided by the Babuskinsky District Court on Thursday, April 29, 2021, Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny is seen on TV screen gesturing during a hearing on his charges for defamation in the Babuskinsky District Court in Moscow, Russia. Navalny appeared in court via videolink from prison Thursday for an appeal against his conviction and fine for defaming a World War II veteran. Navalny was convicted in February and ordered to pay a fine of 850-thousand rubles (dollars 11,500). (Babuskinsky District Court Press Service via AP)

Top ally announces closing Navalny’s offices amid crackdown

By DARIA LITVINOVA - Associated Press

FILE - This file photo provided by Leonid Volkov’s Twitter account on Sunday, Jan. 17, 2021, shows him with Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, right, in Germany. Navalny flew back to Russia on Jan. 17 after recovering in Germany from a poisoning with a nerve agent that he blames on Russian authorities. A Moscow court on Wednesday, Feb. 10, ordered the arrest of Volkov, a Navalny ally who lives in Lithuania, but the government in Vilnius has rejected the demand. (Leonid Volkov via AP, File)

Russia wants Navalny ally arrested abroad; Lithuania refuses

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV - Associated Press

In this photo provided by the Babuskinsky District Court, Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny stands in a cage during a hearing on his charges for defamation, in the Babuskinsky District Court in Moscow, Russia, Friday, Feb. 5, 2021. Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny appeared in a Moscow court on Friday for the second time this week, this time on a charge of slandering a World War II veteran. The politician, who was ordered earlier this week to serve two years and eight months in prison, slammed the hearing as a &quot;disgusting PR trial&quot; intended by the Kremlin to disparage him. (Babuskinsky District Court Press Service via AP)

In new tactic, Navalny supporters to rally in courtyards

By DARIA LITVINOVA - Associated Press

FILE - In this May 5, 2018, file photo, Russian police carry opposition leader Alexei Navalny, center, from a demonstration against President Vladimir Putin in Pushkin Square in Moscow, Russia. Attempts over the years to silence Kremlin critic Navalny have all failed so far. Now Navalny is in a coma in a Berlin hospital after suffering what German authorities say was a poisoning with a chemical nerve agent while traveling in Siberia on Aug. 20. (AP Photo, File)

Attempts to halt Kremlin critic Navalny have failed so far

By DARIA LITVINOVA - Associated Press

Russian opposition activists sentenced to 15 days in jail

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