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Critics of the Kremlin say the government is dramatically increasing pressure on the Russian opposition to intimidate protesters and suppress protests ahead of new demonstrations scheduled for Sunday in the country.
Navaln’s brother Oleg, prominent activist Liubov Sobol, and Maria Aliochina, a member of the Pussy Riot protest group, were placed under house arrest until March 23 for alleged violations of coronavirus restrictions by inciting people to protest. .
Oleg Stepanov, coordinator of the Moscow opposition office, and Anastasia Vasilyeva, head of the Medical Workers Union, who are critical of the government, have also been placed under house arrest for two months.
Navaln has already served a year and a half in prison for embezzlement. Critics of the Kremlin call the verdict politically motivated. A. Navaln’s brother was released in 2018.
Navaln’s family and his colleagues are under pressure from tens of thousands of Russians to take to the streets last weekend to support the country’s fiercest critic, Putin, who was poisoned with nerve paralyzing substances last year. past.
The Kremlin critics team called on the Russians to hold further demonstrations on Sunday, inviting supporters to meet in Moscow at noon (11 a.m. Lithuanian time) at the headquarters of the Federal Security Service (FSB) in Lubyanka Square and the Plaza Vieja, where the offices of the presidential administration are located. They are located.
A total of more than 4,000 protesters were arrested across Russia after Saturday’s demonstrations and a number of criminal cases were filed after the demonstrations.
Several of Navaln’s comrades, including Mr. Sobol, were arrested after police searched their apartments and offices this week.
In Moscow earlier this week, a string of restrictions on COVID-19 was lifted due to a sharp drop in morbidity, allowing night workers to return to bars and restaurants and return to offices.
However, the city authorities decided not to lift the ban on mass gatherings.
The Serious Crimes Investigation Commission brought a case against Leonid Volkov, head of the Navalnas regional network in Vilnius, on suspicion of inviting minors to protest and announced his search.
“Riot Warning” Alert
Prosecutors and police have repeatedly warned against participating in “unauthorized” events, and on Friday the Attorney General’s Office further hardened the tone, saying protesters could be accused of participating in mass riots if violence broke out during the demonstrations.
Navaln, from the detention center, on Thursday called on the Russians to hold further demonstrations.
“It just came to our notice then. Let’s wake them up,” he wrote from Matroskaya Tishina, a strictly guarded detention center.
Police arrested a 44-year-old anti-corruption fighter at Moscow airport when he returned to Russia from Germany on January 17, where he was treated after being poisoned by Soviet scientists’ fighter Novičiok.
An impromptu trial at a police station last week ordered Navalnas to be arrested until February 15.
On Thursday, the court rejected his lawyers’ request to release him until Tuesday, when the resounding trial is due to begin.
The opposition is suspected of violating the conditions of the suspension of the year and a half prison sentence imposed in 2014.
Many protesters say they are outraged by the decision to jail Navalna, who survived the assassination attempt. The opposition blamed the FSB for that attack.
Other protesters were outraged by the findings of Navaln’s investigation report that a grand palace had been built for Putin on the Black Sea coast.
The two-hour report on the palace has already been viewed by more than 100 million people. together.
That material from A. Navaln’s team forced Putin to deny that the property belonged to him or his relatives.
“The tsar must have a palace”
On Friday, the popular Russian-language news site Meduza published its own study of the mansion by the sea.
Based on the contractors, Meduza claimed that the property includes a 16-story underground complex and that construction is being overseen by the Federal Security Service, which is responsible for protecting the presidents.
One of the people involved in the construction of the residence said that the Russian leader should live well.
“The tsar must have a palace,” said the unveiled person.
On Friday, Russian state television tried to debunk opposition claims that the property near the town of Gelendzhik is a luxury palace, showing video of the construction.
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