Police Ratchet Up Pressure On Open Russia After Former Chief Removed From Plane
June 01, 2021 10:21 GMT
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Russian opposition politician and former State Duma deputy Dmitry Gudkov said law enforcement officers have searched his cottage and the homes of some of his close associates.
Gudkov said in a post on his Telegram channel on June 1 that the search occurred at his cottage in Kolomna, about 100 kilometers southeast of Moscow. There is a search at my dacha near Kolomna. The same for my former assistant Aleksandr Solovyov. The same for my chief of staff Vitaly Venidiktov. I don t know the formal reason. The real reason, though, is clear, he wrote.
On the evening of 31 May, the police took Andrei Pivovarov off a flight to Warsaw while the airplane was already on the runway preparing for take-off. He was detained in connection with a criminal case under Article 284.1 (“carrying out activities of an undesirable organization”).
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