Anastasia Valeeva

Anastasia Valeeva is a Moscow-based journalist working at Public Television of Russia and doing an MA at the University of Siegen, Germany.

Scenes from an election campaign

The upcoming Moscow mayoral election is much in the news because one of the candidates, Alexei Navalny, is appealing against a prison sentence. Anastasia Valeeva gives a snapshot of some of the campaign days thus far...

By Anastasia Valeeva

/ 16 Aug 2013

The burning train

72 544x376 Normal 0 false false false EN-GB X-NONE X-NONE Anastasia Valeeva describes a bullish mood aboard the train carrying opposition leader Aleksey Navalny from Moscow to Kirov yesterday. Navalny and 'accomplice' Petr Ofitserov would in the morning be sentenced to 5 and 4 years imprisonment r

By Anastasia Valeeva

/ 18 Jul 2013

Memorial: the making of an activist

Dokka's hair is streaked with grey, but there is a sparkle in his eyes. He met me in a small room in a hotel near Moscow, where legal

By Anastasia Valeeva

/ 10 Dec 2008