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As Navalny's health worsened, his support abroad grew. But a wave of brutal repression was also growing. In a peaceful demonstration that took place on January 31, 2021 in support of him, more than 5,000 people were arrested. There were not enough cells in Moscow police stations and many people were held incommunicado in overcrowded police buses, without adequate sanitation and in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. In April of the same year, the Russian authorities began to dismantle the Anti-Corruption Foundation and the Foundation for the Protection of Citizens' Rights , created by Navalny, and persecuted for years, when the Kremlin set its sights on them. Both organizations were officially classified as “extremist” and banned .
Furthermore, the authorities were consciously responsible for not leaving a “legal” loophole for Navalny's collaborators, even going so far as to imprison them: Lilia Chanysheva, former coordinator of Navalny's offices , Ivan Zhdanov, director of the Anti-Corruption Foundation , and other collaborators were detained and sentenced at the same time that other people from Navalny's team left Russia for fear of political persecution. In October 2023, the police searched the homes and offices of three lawyers, Vadim Kobzev, Aleksei Liptser and Igor Sergunin, all of them legal representatives of Aleksei Navalny , under investigation USA Phone Number for “organizing an extremist group”, charges that could carry up to 10 years. of jail. Opposition politician Vladimir Kara-Murza laying flowers. Opponents in the crosshairs in Putin's Russia Opposition politician Vladimir Kara-Murza lays flowers during the memorial service for Boris Nemtsov, murdered in 2015. © Mihail Siergiejevicz/SOPA Image/Shutterstock The case of Aleksei Navalny may be the best known, but it is not the only one In recent days, Navalny's image has filled covers and news spaces.
Personalities from around the world have expressed their dismay at the death of the activist, politician and opponent of the Kremlin. However, his case is one more in a worrying list. His death joins those of Anna Politkovskaia , who died riddled with bullets in the doorway of her Moscow home in October 2006, and Boris Nemtsov , a prominent politician murdered near the Kremlin in February 2015 . Other opponents have had “better luck.” Vladimir Kara-Murza , 41 years old and father of three, was a close associate of Boris Nemtsov. He survived two poisoning attempts in 2015 and 2017, and in April 2022 he was arrested after criticizing the invasion of Ukraine at several public events. He was sentenced to 25 years in prison for “high treason,” “knowingly disseminating false information about the Russian Armed Forces,” and “carrying out the activities of an undesirable organization.
Furthermore, the authorities were consciously responsible for not leaving a “legal” loophole for Navalny's collaborators, even going so far as to imprison them: Lilia Chanysheva, former coordinator of Navalny's offices , Ivan Zhdanov, director of the Anti-Corruption Foundation , and other collaborators were detained and sentenced at the same time that other people from Navalny's team left Russia for fear of political persecution. In October 2023, the police searched the homes and offices of three lawyers, Vadim Kobzev, Aleksei Liptser and Igor Sergunin, all of them legal representatives of Aleksei Navalny , under investigation USA Phone Number for “organizing an extremist group”, charges that could carry up to 10 years. of jail. Opposition politician Vladimir Kara-Murza laying flowers. Opponents in the crosshairs in Putin's Russia Opposition politician Vladimir Kara-Murza lays flowers during the memorial service for Boris Nemtsov, murdered in 2015. © Mihail Siergiejevicz/SOPA Image/Shutterstock The case of Aleksei Navalny may be the best known, but it is not the only one In recent days, Navalny's image has filled covers and news spaces.
Personalities from around the world have expressed their dismay at the death of the activist, politician and opponent of the Kremlin. However, his case is one more in a worrying list. His death joins those of Anna Politkovskaia , who died riddled with bullets in the doorway of her Moscow home in October 2006, and Boris Nemtsov , a prominent politician murdered near the Kremlin in February 2015 . Other opponents have had “better luck.” Vladimir Kara-Murza , 41 years old and father of three, was a close associate of Boris Nemtsov. He survived two poisoning attempts in 2015 and 2017, and in April 2022 he was arrested after criticizing the invasion of Ukraine at several public events. He was sentenced to 25 years in prison for “high treason,” “knowingly disseminating false information about the Russian Armed Forces,” and “carrying out the activities of an undesirable organization.