Former Novaya Gazeta contributor Elena Shukaeva arrested for posting link to Navalny’s investigation into ex-PM Medvedev back in 2017

A court in Russia’s Yekaterinburg has arrested former Novaya Gazeta (Moscow) contributor Elena Shukaeva for 14 days, Roman Kachanov, an attorney with OVD-Info, a Russian human rights organisation that monitors political arrests, reports.

She was found guilty of demonstrating a logo of an extremist organisation for “publishing a link to Don’t Call Him Dimon (an investigation by Navalny’s Anti-Corruption Fund into former president and PM Dmitry Medvedev — translator’s note) in 2017,” Kachanov said. The prosecution seems to think that Elena did not just share the link to the investigation, she published the video herself.

Shukaeva was detained today in court. Today, the Yekaterinburg court deliberated Shukaeva’s appeals against the previously imposed fines over her “discrediting” the Russian army. The court upheld the initial verdicts.

On 24 May, the court fined Shukaeva to the tune of 200,000 rubles (€3,250) for “discrediting the use of the Russian armed forces abroad”. Police filed five charges against her over her Facebook posts. The posts were about the death of civilians in Mariupol and Bucha, as well as Russian POWs saying that they did not know they were being sent to war.