Lyubov Sobol and another person were detained at the house of a possible participant in Navalny's poisoning

At the house of the alleged participant in the poisoning of Alexei Navalny, Konstantin Kudryavtsev, FBK employee Lyubov Sobol and another person were detained. It is reported by Mediazona.

Sobol was detained when she got out of her car, explaining this with a certain statement from the “residents of apartment 38”. While detaining an FBK employee, the security forces roughly pushed the journalists.

After Navalny published a video with a conversation with Kudryavtsev, Lyubov Sobol, journalists and security officials came to the latter's house. The police surrounded Sobol's car, preventing her from getting out. Kudryavtsev did not open the door to media representatives.

19:53 The name of the second detainee at Kudryavtsev's house is Konstantin Raspopov, he is an employee of Lyubov Sobol's headquarters, reports . Mediazona

22:03 to According SOTA, Lyubov Sobol and Konstantin Raspopov are in the Novokosino police department. The police do not explain to them the reason for the detention.

22:22 Lawyer Lyubov Sobol Vladimir Voronin writes that he has not been allowed to see his client for more than 40 minutes and they are going to initiate a criminal case against her. The details of the case are not yet known.

23:08 Employees of the YouTube channel "Navalny LIVE" Akim Kerimov and Olga Klyuchnikova were detained by the criminal investigation department at the Novokosino police department to "ask a couple of questions." This is reported by the channel itself in its telegram.

December 22, 3:33 am Lyubov Sobol was released at about 2:30 am after questioning as part of an investigation into a criminal case of breaking into a home, reports the Navalny Team . Sobol herself posted the video on Twitter.

“They started questioning only at 1:15, and before that, they kept me in the police department for more than 5 hours just like that and didn’t let the lawyer in,” write Sobol’s associates.

On December 22, employees of the Navalny LIVE YouTube channel Akim Kerimov and Olga Klyuchnikova, as well as Konstantin Raspopov, an employee of the Sobol headquarters, were detained pending trial. They were charged with an article on disobedience to the lawful demand of a police officer (Article 19.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses).

A protocol was drawn up against Lyubov Sobol under the same article. In the protocol, which was posted on Navalny LIVE on Twitter, police officers wrote that Sobol “categorically refused to go to the duty station” to receive explanations on the application of the residents of the 38th apartment about illegal entry into their apartment. Also, Sobol “demonstratively waved her arms, to the repeated legitimate demands of the head of the department of the district police commissioner Korobkov K.V. refused to follow him (continued to passively resist).”

• On December 21, Alexei Navalny posted a video where he claims to be calling FSB officer Konstantin Kudryavtsev, posing as assistant secretary of the Security Council Nikolai Patrushev. The interlocutor told Navalny the details of the assassination attempt.
• On December 14, 2020, an investigation was published by a group of journalists from Bellingcat , The Insider and CNN with the participation of Der Spiegel founded by politician Alexei Navalny and the Anti-Corruption Foundation . Investigators found that Navalny had been followed by a group of FSB officers with a medical background since 2017, and that the security forces had tried at least three times to poison Navalny with a nerve agent from the Novichok group.