Russian TikTokers Detained for Attacking FSB Car at Navalny Protests
Jan. 27, 2021
Widely shared video showed several young people kicking the car, with state media reports saying the driver's eye was gouged.
Sergei Bobylev / TASS
A popular TikToker and his friends have been detained for allegedly vandalizing a Russian security services car during mass rallies in support of jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny in Moscow, media reported Wednesday.
Konstantin Lakeyev, 18, is suspected of attacking the car appearing to belong to Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) in a widely shared video from Saturday’s unauthorized protests demanding Navalny’s release. State media reported that the car’s driver was hospitalized with a gouged eye.