MK: Navalny went abroad

The leader of the Party of Progress Alexei Navalny went abroad. It is reported by "Moscow Komsomolets" with reference to unnamed sources. According to the publication, the politician went to Barcelona.

According to Medusa, the head of the campaign headquarters Leonid Volkov said that he did not know if Navalny left Russia.

On Thursday, Navalny reported on his blog that he received a passport, the issuance of which he was refused for five years. “Apparently, there is a kind of“ water truce ”on medical topics,” the politician noted. “Now I can go for examination and treatment in one of the clinics specializing in eye burns.” Navalny lost 80 percent of vision on the right eye, after April 27, SERB activists sprayed with a poisonous liquid in his face.

Meanwhile, the opposition lawyer Vadim Kobzev said on Thursday that the FSIN demands from Navalny not to leave Russia after receiving a passport. According to Kobzev, with such a recommendation he was called the head of the penal inspection.

However, on the same day, the acting head of the press service of the Moscow City Court, Kirill Ryabchikov, said that in the verdict Navalny in the Kirovles case there is no direct ban on traveling abroad.

On Saturday, Volkov said that Navalny submitted documents for a European visa and plans to spend a week on treatment in Spain or Switzerland.

On the same day, the former deputy head of the FMS Vyacheslav Suvnin assured that Navalny should not have problems going abroad. “If the passport was given to him, then everything, then, is agreed with the Ministry of Internal Affairs. There can be some unplanned difficulties, but only if he is accidentally“ looked through ”, they will forget about the coordination. But Navalny is not such a figure to forget about it,” RBC quotes.

In December 2015, the Moscow City Court recognized the FMS refusal to give a foreign passport to Navalny, indicating that the politician was conditionally convicted.

Russian laws really do not allow the conventionally convicted travel abroad. An exception is provided only for deaths or a serious illness of a close relative of the convict. In September 2016, the ECHR indicated the illegality of such a universal ban. "The restrictions can be justified only if there are obvious signs of genuine public interest that outweigh the human right to freedom of movement," the Strasbourg court noted in the decision on the complaints of two applicants from Russia.