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Russian deputy governor calls charges against Navalny 'nonsense'

Alexei Navalny

12:50 11/05/2011

Deputy governor of the central Russian Kirov region Maria Gaidar dismissed on Wednesday charges against popular anti-corruption blogger Alexei Navalny as "complete nonsense."

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Russian anti-corruption campaigner accused of mocking state emblem
18:21 18/05/2011
Investigators in Moscow have ruled that the logo of anti-graft website Rospil.info - run by well-known activist Alexei Navalny - mocks Russia's official emblem.
Charges brought against Russia's chief whistleblower
17:11 10/05/2011
Russian prosecutors have charged top anti-corruption campaigner Alexei Navalny with deceiving a businessman two years ago.
Court orders Rosneft to disclose board meeting data to blogger Navalny
17:59 18/04/2011
A Russian Arbitration Appeals Tribunal has ruled that state-run oil giant Rosneft must provide information on its 2009 board meetings to minority shareholder and blogger Alexei Navalny, who has consistently called for greater transparency in Russian business practices.
Website of Russian opposition paper hit in massive web attack
14:19 08/04/2011
The website of Russia's leading opposition newspaper Novaya Gazeta may be moved to a different host after being the target of a massive cyber attack, its editor-in-chief said on Friday.
Transneft rejects blogger's embezzlement claims as slurs by rivals
17:34 13/01/2011
Publications by popular Russian blogger Alexei Navalny about alleged mutli-billion dollar embezzlement by Transneft, the country's oil pipeline monopoly, is part of an information campaign launched by the company's adversaries to impede development of its investment projects, Transneft head Nikolai Tokarev claimed on Thursday.
Russian blogger creates Wikileaks-style anticorruption site
23:43 06/12/2010
Popular Russian journalist and blogger Alexei Navalny has created a whistleblowing website to document corruption in Russia.
Audit Chamber gives Transneft clean bill over embezzlement charge
14:09 18/11/2010
Russia's Audit Chamber says it found no evidence of major embezzlement at the country's pipeline monopoly Transneft, following allegations by the company's minority shareholder Alexei Navalny, Audit Chamber head Sergei Stepashin said on Thursday.
Alleged $4 billion fraud at Transneft demands probe - lawmaker
15:06 17/11/2010
One of Russia's most senior politicians said on Wednesday that a report alleging the involvement of the previous leadership of Russian pipeline monopoly Transneft in the embezzlement of at least $4 billion should be investigated.
Russian bloggers criticize banks and airports
20:45 01/02/2010
Large Russian companies have started monitoring blogs for criticism of their operation. Last week, Alfa Bank dismissed a call center operator for being rude with a client who owed the bank 26 cents under a loan.

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Anti-corruption blogger Alexei Navalny case

Navalny's Wikileaks-style website, Rospil.info, is using like-minded members of the Russian public to monitor state tenders, where they say billions of rubles of public money is lost to kickbacks. Rospil says a total of $58.4 million in alleged government fraud has been tracked down so far. Оn May, 10 Russian prosecutors have charged top anti-corruption campaigner Alexei Navalny with deceiving a businessman two years ago.