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Three activists were not allowed to leave from St. Petersburg to Moscow for a meeting with Navalny
In St. Petersburg in the late evening of January 16, police detained the coordinator of the regional headquarters of Alexei Navalny Irina Fatyanov and civil activist Ilya Gantwellga. It is reported by "Apology of Protest."
The detainees were removed from the train on which they were going to go to Moscow to meet Alexei Navalny, who should fly from Germany on January 17 to Vnukovo Airport.
In addition, at the Moscow Station in St. Petersburg, law enforcement officers detained the editor of the YouTube channel “The Lens of Realues” Andrei Makashov. This was reported by the project in its telegram channel. Makashov was informed that the detention is associated with certain shares that he allegedly planned in Moscow.
Irina Fatyanova, Ilya Gantvarg, Andrey Makashov / Photo: "The Lens of Realues"
All three were delivered to the police department No. 76. On the night of January 17, they were released, the “realti lens” reports . Whether the protocols on any administrative offenses have drawn up on them, is not reported.
Earlier on January 16, the security forces seized the car of the postcard coordinator in the Leningrad Region Dmitry Skurikhin, who also planned to go to Moscow to meet Navalny. On the car it was written "Tell Putin" no! "." Then Skurikhin himself was detained, after which they released with a protocol on a violation of the public event (part 5 of article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses) due to pickets on February 15, 2020 for preserving the constitutional system.
In addition, Peter Ilyin and Svetlana Kovalet were detained in the Gostiny Dvor, who stood with the posters “do not dare to touch Navalny” and ““ they would like to kill, kill ”. Is this the truth of the Words of the Guarantor of the Constitution? ” Ilyin was later released from the department, and Kovalet was left overnight despite the fact that she has a child under 14 years old.
In Moscow, during January 16, the police came home to opposition politicians to transfer to them the warnings in connection with the upcoming meeting at the airport.
Alexey Navalny took place in Germany a long course of treatment and rehabilitation after on August 20 he felt bad in an airplane flying from Tomsk to Moscow. The plane made an emergency landing in Omsk, then, after long negotiations, the politics was taken away from Russia and hospitalized in the German Charité clinic. Navalny spent about two weeks in a coma. Representatives of the Charité Berlin Clinic, where they delivered Navalny, said that they discovered the signs of a fighting poisonous substance from the Novice group in his body. In October, the organization to prohibit chemical weapons (OPCU) confirmed the presence of traces of poison from the Novice group in Navalny analyzes.
On December 14, 2020, an investigation of a group of journalists from Bellingcat , The Insider and CNN with the participation of Der Spiegel and the Navalny Fund for Combating Corruption was published. The investigators found out that since 2017, a group of FSB officers with medical education, as well as the security forces at least three times, tried to poison Navalny with neuro-paralytic matter from the Novice group at least three times. The Investigative Committee refused to check the actions of the FSB officers, whom Navalny accused of poisoning.
On December 21, Alexei Navalnypublished a video in which he claims that he spoke on the phone with a participant in his poisoning Konstantin Kudryavtsev, introducing himself as assistant secretary of the Security Council of Nikolai Patrushev. During the conversation, the interlocutor informed Navalny details of the assassination attempt.
On January 12, the Federal Punishment Service demanded that Navalny replace a conditional term appointed in the Yves Rocher case with a real one. The next day, he announced that on January 17 he would fly to Russia. Soon, the Federal Penitentiary Service announced the intention to detain Navalny "when establishing his location."