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Press secretary Kira Yarmysh, lawyers Lyubov Sobol and Vladlen Los, investigative journalist Georgy Alburov. They were all arrested in Moscow on Thursday night.
– I had to go alone to the police station in this prisoner transport, writes Georgij Alburov on Twitter.
https://twitter.com/alburov/status/1352340915386544132
Navalny’s press secretary, Kira Yarmysh, initially refused to open the door to the police. They stood outside her door for over an hour before Jarmysj’s attorney arrived and she agreed to open it.
Navalny employees were also arrested in other Russian cities. In Krasnodar, Chief of Staff Anastasia Panchenko has been arrested, in Kaliningrad, a volunteer. In St. Petersburg, Chief of Staff Irina Fatianova reports that the police have called her home.
– They have come to me too. I’m not at home. They tried to get the neighbor to sign a paper stating that I was not at home. The neighbor refused and the police left, deeply disappointed, Fatianova writes.
https://twitter.com/irmachinsky/status/1352345382077034498
– They lock me in the cell at night. Tomorrow there will be a trial, I don’t know when. January 23 will be a legendary day, Kira Jarmysj writes on Twitter.
https://twitter.com/Kira_Yarmysh/status/1352346199869763590
Saturday On January 23, Navalny and his supporters call on all of Russia to take to the streets and demonstrate. On the Navalny website, 66 cities are already registered; In addition to Moscow and St. Petersburg, several regional capitals participate. Arkhangelsk, Vladivostok, Perm, Sochi, Syktykvar and Ulan-Ude, among others, are on the list. The demonstrations have not been approved and the authorities are urging people not to participate. There are many indications that the protests will be crushed by force.
Opposition politician Alexei Navalny was poisoned by the Russian security service FSB in late August 2020. He survived thanks to care in Germany. When he returned to Moscow on Sunday, he was arrested at passport control. A few days later, his latest reveal about Putin’s billion-dollar palace was released, a film that has by now received 48.6 million views. The investigative work was led by Georgy Alburov, who has now been arrested.
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