{"id":2423934,"date":"2025-04-15T18:21:02","date_gmt":"2025-04-15T22:21:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/russia-jails-four-journalists-linked-to-alexei-navalny-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2025-04-15T18:22:01","modified_gmt":"2025-04-15T22:22:01","slug":"russia-jails-four-journalists-linked-to-alexei-navalny-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/russia-jails-four-journalists-linked-to-alexei-navalny-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia jails four journalists linked to Alexei Navalny &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Frussia-jails-four-journalists-linked-to-alexei-navalny-washington-examiner%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2423934&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Four journalists linked to the late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny have been sentenced to 5.5 years in prison for their alleged involvement with an extremist group. The journalists\u2014Antonina Favorskaya, Konstantin Gabov, Sergey Karelin, and Artyom kriger\u2014were accused of working for the Anti-Corruption Foundation, which has been designated as a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/federal-court-is-fast-tracking-sidney-powells-request-for-a-forensic-exam-of-dominion-voting-machines\/\" title=\"Federal Court Is Fast-Tracking Sidney Powell\u2019s Request For A Forensic Exam Of Dominion Voting Machines\">foreign agent<\/a> and later as an extremist association by the Russian authorities. During court proceedings, Favorskaya claimed she was being punished for organizing Navalny&#8217;s funeral, while Gabov described the charges against him as baseless, stating that independent journalism is equated with extremism in Russia.Karelin asserted that he was targeted for conducting street interviews for a YouTube channel associated with Navalny&#8217;s team. Kriger criticized the prosecution as unfounded and expressed hope for a future change in circumstances. The convictions underscore the increasing repression of independent journalism and dissent in Russia under the current regime.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Russia jails four journalists linked to Alexei Navalny<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_2095711\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/russia\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Russia\">Russia<\/a> has thrown four journalists associated with the late opposition leader <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/alexei-navalny\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Alexei Navalny\">Alexei Navalny<\/a> in jail, sentencing each to 5 1\/2 years in prison.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/justice\/2946413\/russian-journalist-detained-on-charges-of-extremism\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Antonina Favorskaya\">Antonina Favorskaya<\/a>, Konstantin Gabov, Sergey Karelin, and Artyom Kriger were all found guilty of involvement with an extremist group. They were accused of working for the Anti-Corruption Foundation, an <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">nonprofit organization founded<\/a> by Navalny. The organization was designated a foreign agent by the Russian Ministry of Justice in 2019, then given an extremist designation in 2021, outlawing it.<\/p>\n<div class=\"recommended-stories\">\n<h2>Recommended Stories<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/world\/3380981\/south-korea-insulate-semiconductor-industry-tariff-wars\/\">South Korea seeks to insulate key industries from tariff wars<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/world\/3380628\/vance-us-does-not-morally-support-russia-trump-zelensky\/\">Vance says US doesn&#8217;t &#8216;morally support&#8217; Russia after Trump blames Zelensky for &#8216;millions of people dead&#8217;<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/world\/3380572\/british-steel-furnaces-material-us-china\/\">British Steel sources materials from US to keep furnaces running<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Russian journalists, Antonina Favorskaya, left, and Artyom Kriger, accused of working for a group founded by the late Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny, stand in a defendant&rsquo;s cage of the Nagatinsky District Court in Moscow, Russia, on Tuesday, April 15, 2025. (AP Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Gabov is a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/olympics-host-china-ranked-the-worlds-worst-jailer-of-journalists-for-3rd-year\/\" title=\"Olympics Host China Ranked the World&#039;s Worst Jailer of ... for 3rd Year\">freelance video journalist<\/a> along with Karelin, the latter of whom worked with Western media outlets such as the <em>Associated Press<\/em>. Favorskaya and Kriger worked with the anti-Kremlin SotaVision, an outlet designated a &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hunter-bidens-legal-strategy-takes-shape-as-tax-trial-looms-washington-examiner\/\" title=\"Hunter Biden\u2019s legal strategy takes shape as tax trial looms - Washington Examiner\">foreign agent&#038;rdquo<\/a>; in 2023, sending its leaders into exile.<\/p>\n<p>Favorskaya filmed the last video of Navalny before his death last year.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Russian journalists, from left, Konstantin Gabov, Sergey Karelin, Artyom Kriger and Antonina Favorskaya, accused of working for a group founded by the late Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny, stand in a defendant&rsquo;s cage of the Nagatinsky District Court in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, April 15, 2025. (AP Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Speaking to reporters while in the defendants&rsquo; cage, Favorskaya said she was being punished for helping organize Navalny&rsquo;s funeral.<\/p>\n<p>Gabov said the accusations against him were baseless.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I understand perfectly well &hellip; what kind of country I live in. Throughout history, Russia has never been different, there is nothing new in the current situation,&rdquo; Gabov said in a statement to <em>Novaya Gazeta<\/em>, an independent Russian newspaper. &ldquo;Independent journalism is equated to extremism.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Karelin said he was being punished for doing street interviews for Popular Politics, a YouTube channel founded by Navalny&rsquo;s associates.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Remorse is considered to be a mitigating circumstance. It&rsquo;s the criminals who need to have remorse for what they did. But I am in prison for my work, for the honest and impartial attitude to journalism, FOR THE LOVE for my family and country,&rdquo; he wrote in remarks obtained by the outlet.<\/p>\n<p>Kriger also denounced his prosecution as baseless, saying he was added to a list of extremists &ldquo;only because I have conscientiously carried out my professional duties as an honest, incorruptible and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/exclusive-independent-journalist-tayler-hansen-a-riot-that-turned-deadly-what-i-witnessed-at-the-us-capitol-riot\/\" title=\"EXCLUSIVE: Independent Journalist Tayler Hansen: A Riot that Turned Deadly, What I Witnessed at the US Capitol Riot\">independent journalist<\/a> for 4 1\/2 years.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/justice\/2946413\/russian-journalist-detained-on-charges-of-extremism\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"RUSSIAN JOURNALIST WHO COVERED NAVALNY TRIALS DETAINED ON CHARGES OF EXTREMISM\">RUSSIAN JOURNALIST WHO COVERED NAVALNY TRIALS DETAINED ON CHARGES OF EXTREMISM<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Don&rsquo;t despair guys, sooner or later it will end and those who delivered the sentence will go behind bars,&rdquo; he said after the verdict.<\/p>\n<p>Kriger&rsquo;s uncle, Mikhail Kriger, was arrested in 2022 after liking a Facebook comment expressing the urge &ldquo;to hang&rdquo; Russian President Vladimir Putin.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_2095711\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"2095711\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russia imprisons four journalists tied to Alexei Navalny<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2653,"featured_media":2423935,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Russian-journalists-imprisoned.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[36908,33068,27043,5313,4280],"class_list":["post-2423934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-alexei-navalny","tag-freedom-of-speech","tag-imprisonment","tag-journalists","tag-russia"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Russian-journalists-imprisoned.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2423934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2653"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2423934"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2423934\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2423938,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2423934\/revisions\/2423938"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2423935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2423934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2423934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2423934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}