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Russian police raided the home of opposition activist Lyubov Sobol this morning and took her away for questioning, Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny and his supporters said.
Navalny’s supporters said they thought the police action was a response to her trying to knock on the door of a suspected FSB security agent in Moscow who, according to Navalny, participated in a failed scheme to poison him in August.
The FSB has dismissed Navalny’s accusations as a provocation.
Ivan Zhdanov, director of the Navalny Anti-Corruption Fund, wrote on Twitter that investigators had launched an investigation for trespassing “with the use of violence or the threat of violence.”
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Navalny, one of President Vladimir Putin’s most outspoken critics, was flown to Germany for medical treatment in August after collapsing from a plane in Russia.
Germany has said it was poisoned with a Soviet-style Novichok nerve agent in an attempt to assassinate him, a claim many Western nations accept.
The Kremlin has repeatedly rejected any suggestion that Russia tried to kill Navalny.
On Monday, Navalny posted a recording of him speaking on the phone at length with a man he described as a state security agent who told him, among other things, that they had put poison in his underwear.
Navalny said he had posed as an assistant to a senior Russian security official to gain the man’s trust.
Russia’s FSB security service dismissed the recording as false.
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