The decision to suspend the activities of organizations associated with blogger Alexei Navalny runs counter to Russia’s international obligations, said on Tuesday, April 27, EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Josep Borrell in Twitter…
“The suspension of all activities of organizations affiliated with Alexei Navalny, including his Anti-Corruption Fund (the organization is included in the list of foreign agents by the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation – Ed.) Is contrary to Russia’s international obligations. I call on the Russian authorities to reconsider recent decisions and to end the systematic repression of fundamental rights, ”Borrell wrote.
On April 27, the Moscow City Court, in the framework of a claim to recognize the Anti-Corruption Fund as extremist, restricted the activities of the organization. The measure includes a ban on the organization from interacting with the media, organizing public events, using banks, and participating in elections.
The claim of the capital’s prosecutor’s office was filed against the FBK, the FZPG and the public movement “Navalny’s Headquarters” due to the fact that “these organizations are engaged in creating conditions for the destabilization of the social and socio-political situation.”
On April 26, the Moscow prosecutor’s office suspended the activities of the headquarters of blogger Alexei Navalny. The reason for taking these measures was the fact that the leaders and participants of foundations and headquarters continue their illegal activities, in particular, they carry out illegal mass public actions.
On April 21, the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs provided summary data on the participation of citizens in unauthorized actions in Russian cities. According to the agency, a thousand people took part in such an action in Novosibirsk, 900 in Omsk, 500 in Irkutsk, and 350 in Vladivostok. The procession in Barnaul gathered 150 participants, and 100 people came out in Petrozavodsk and Murmansk. 30 participants of the illegal action took to the streets of Vologda, in Khabarovsk it gathered 200 participants, in Tomsk – 130.
On April 20, the Moscow police warned the residents of the capital about the illegality of the planned unauthorized actions and urged citizens to refrain from participating in them. The department recalled that the police “will not allow destabilization of the situation.”
On April 19, publicist Armen Gasparyan said that potential participants in an unauthorized rally in support of convicted blogger Alexei Navalny were promised 500 rubles each.
On February 2, the Moscow Simonovsky court ruled to cancel Navalny’s suspended sentence in the Yves Rocher case and replace him with 3.5 years in a general regime colony. The decision was made due to the blogger’s numerous violations of the probationary period. In this case, in fact, he will spend 2.5 years in the colony.