Picture, cardboard ...

On August 26 and 27, the Investigative Committee interrogated the employees of Anna Biryukova, founded by Alexei Navalny's Corruption, (she heads the fund’s sociological service), Galina Koposova and Nikolai Lyaskin, as well as the former employee of the Foundation Vladislav Naganova and the mother of the former press secretary of the Anna Vedita Foundation. Dmitry Taralov, who is engaged in the RosZHKH service developed in the fund, also announced the call to the Investigative Committee on Twitter . Like Navalny’s wife, Julia had previously , associates of disgraced politician were interrogated in the case of the theft of a picture of the Vladimir Street artist Sergei Sotov “Bad and Good Man”. This work, like other work of Sotov, hung in Vladimir on the fence and then was donated to Navalny for a birthday. The picture that the FBK employees call the cardboard was seized from Navalny in June during the search. As Anna Biryukova and Nikolai Lyaskin told the OVD-Info, during interrogation they refused to answer questions, using the right, guaranteed by the 51st article of the Constitution. Yulia Navalny did the same earlier. According to Nikolai Lyaskin, everyone asked “the same delusional questions” to everyone, but neither he nor Biryukov began to go into details about what interested investigators.

The criminal prosecution of employees founded by Alexei Navalny Foundation for the fight against corruption (FBK) and just associates of disgraced politician began at the end of May 2014. The Investigative Committee said that Nikolai Lyaskin, the Executive Director of the Foundation Vladimir Ashurkov (both also occupy key posts in the founded Party of Progress) and a member of the party on December 5, Konstantin Yankauskas, who was actively interacting with people from the Navalny team, are suspected of fraud and violation of the procedure for financing the Navalny election campaign. Moscow. Later, all three were charged , Lyaskin was a subscription about the lower room, Yankauskas was sent under house arrest, and Ashurkov was put on the federal wanted list (he was charged in absentia). In addition, Yankauskas refused to register a candidate for the Moscow City Duma.

On June 20, during a search of Navalny, as part of the theft in the framework of the election campaign of the Union of Right Forces, the Party of the ATP - one of the several cases aroused against the politician) was seized by the painting “Bad and Good Man”. The Investigative Committee stated that this picture was stolen from the artist Sotov, in connection with which a criminal case was instituted - at the same time, Sotov himself claimed that he often disappeared to the police. Later, in the framework of the investigation of the case, the head of the FBK investigation department Georgy Alburov was questioned , and, according to him, he was asked questions about the ATP election campaign. Navalny’s lawyer Vadim Kobzev stated that he would not remember the case that the investigative committee investigate the theft case. Moreover, when the employees of the fund brought Navalny “Cardboard”, at the entrance of the house where the politician lives, NTV and LifeNews correspondents were waiting for them. Kobzev believes that the case is sent "against the fund and its investigations."

On July 9, Alburov conducted a search in connection with the case of the theft of the picture. Then it became known about the search of the parents of the analyst of the FBK, Nikita Kulachenkov (he is registered in their apartment). On July 25, a search was held in the fund itself: the FBK employees suggested that this was due to the appeal to the Prime Minister of the Prochrevsky Youth Movement "Tipun". During the search, according to the employee of the Kira Yarmysh Foundation, “the police questioned about the virus extorting money to finance Navalny projects”, allegedly developed by representatives of the Fund, and about the Navalny.us website, through which you can read the policy blog.

Five days later, a search was held in the office of the Party of Progress, and on a completely anecdotal occasion: according to the activist of the party Dmitry Krainev, the police, on behalf of the Simonov prosecutor's office, were looking for Lyaskin's phone number.

In early August, Navalny's associates also encountered other types of persecution - they were detained and cruel attacks , going to the so -called daching - a picnic near cottages, presumably belonging to senior officials and close to the Kremlin businessmen (Georgy Alburov participated in the promoted members of the FBC). The first attempt to conduct such a daching was made in May and also ended with detentions. Now, some of the participants in the failed picnic were taken out of the bus, and then they were detained on the railway platform, and those who got by car attacked the unknown people, they broke their glass bats, pierced the tires. At least two were severely beaten: they broke the leg one, the other was thrown and drove on the ground.