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In Moscow since April 21. in the morning all the main streets and squares near the Kremlin were blocked. Metal barriers were erected in Manežnaja Square. Here a campaign to support A. Navalnas was to be carried out.
However, on the eve of the capital, the authorities did not allow the organizers of the protest to carry out a campaign in Manezhnaya Square, which should be attended by up to 100,000. people on the basis of a mass event ban on the coronavirus.
The people named in the report as organizers of the event were also reported to be abroad. They were promised that they would be held responsible in the event that the protest took place without the permission of the city authorities.
The streets and squares of the city are also blocked in other Russian cities.
Downtown Vladivostok now.
Photo: Valeria Fedorenko / “Novaya Gazeta” pic.twitter.com/UCe90DZGXs
– Novaya Gazeta (@novaya_gazeta) April 21, 2021
Navaln comrades arrested
Russian police raided the offices of imprisoned Kremlin critic Alexei Navaln in St. Petersburg on Wednesday morning and detained his comrade Liubov Sobol and spokesman Kira Yarmysh, opposition officials said.
Police raids against planned protests were carried out in more than 100 Russian cities overnight. His team, which fears that the life of the Kremlin’s most famous critic who went on a hunger strike in prison is in grave danger, is calling on the Russians at 7 pm to take to the streets in local time.
“The searches have continued since the morning,” a team of opposition politicians in St. Petersburg told Twitter. “They came from the office operator, various volunteers and activists.”
Vladimir Voronin, a lawyer for the Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK) established by A. Navaln, wrote on Twitter that she was gotten out of a taxi at Moscow’s Avtozavodskaya metro station.
Liubov Sobol
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“She said that she was detained by many uniformed officers,” he wrote.
The lawyer later said that Mr. Sobol was taken to a police station but detained in a police car.
His lawyer, Veronika Poliakova, reported on Jarmyš’s arrest.
“Kira has been detained where she is being transported; it is not yet known,” the lawyer told the Interfax news agency.
OVD-Info, an independent group that monitors arrests of activists, said Wednesday that police searched and detained activists in at least 20 cities across the country.
The raids were carried out against Russian President Vladimir Putin’s annual report, which is due to read at 12 noon. (and in Lithuanian time).
Police have warned against participating in the “illegal” rallies on Wednesday. In late January and early February, more than 10,000 people were arrested during anti-government demonstrations by supporters of A. Navaln in the country. people.
Navaln was arrested in January after returning to Russia from Germany, where he was being treated for serious poisoning by nerve paralyzing substances. A. Navalna was tried for poisoning last August. He lost consciousness on a plane flying from Siberia to Moscow. For several days, the opposition was treated by local doctors and then flown to Berlin for treatment.
Western experts have discovered that Navaln was poisoned by the nerve paralyzing substance Novičiok, developed in the Soviet Union. Navaln blames Moscow, but the Putin administration denies any involvement.
In February, Navaln was sentenced to two and a half years in prison for violating the terms of his probation in a 2014 fraud case while receiving treatment in Germany.
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