Russian authorities on Monday ordered the anti-corruption foundation of jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny to suspend its activities. The court has suspended the work of FBK and Navalny s headquarters pending the court s decision, the foundation, FBK, tweeted on Monday.
A preliminary hearing has been scheduled for April 29, FBK director Ivan Zhdanov said in social media posts. They are going to destroy our team in secret, without drawing attention to it, and the case has been classified, he wrote. He said that with the decision the authorities are just shouting here: we are afraid of your activities, we are afraid of your rallies, we are afraid of smart voting.
Arbeitsverbot für Organisationen Nawalnyjs
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“People are marching in the street. It means they know and understand everything, said Navalny. They won t give up their future, the future of their children, their country. Yes, it will be difficult and dark for some time. But those pulling Russia back historically are doomed. There are more of us in any case.”
Navalny was arrested in January upon his return from Germany, where he had spent five months recovering from a nerve agent poisoning he blames on the Kremlin accusations that Russian officials reject.
Soon after, a court found that the politician’s stay in Germany violated the terms of his suspended sentence for a 2014 embezzlement conviction and ordered him to serve 2 1/2 years in prison.