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Russian opposition politician Aleksei Navalny says a member of his Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK) has been detained on a charge of inciting extremism.
According to a
tweet by Navalny on January 15, Pavel Zelensky was detained over a tweet he sent last year following the self-immolation of journalist Irina Slavina in the city of Nizhny Novgorod.
In his
tweet on October 2, Zelensky condemned the Russian authorities, saying they were responsible for the journalist s death.
Slavina died after setting herself on fire in front of Nizhny Novgorod s city police department on October 2 following a police raid on her apartment in an apparent search for evidence linking her to an opposition group.