The former head of Navalny's headquarters in Kaliningrad requested political asylum in the United States

The former head of Alexei Navalny's headquarters in Kaliningrad, Alexander Chernikov, and his family left Russia and requested political asylum in the United States. This was reported by New Kaliningrad.

“I asked for political asylum because I was being persecuted by the state. I was interrogated twice by an investigator who flew in from Moscow specifically for this case [about participation in an extremist community]. For me, there is already a court decision that I was the head of a branch of this organization in 2020–2021. At the moment, one coordinator (in Ufa) has already been sent to a pre-trial detention center in connection with this case. It’s only a matter of time before they come for the others. It is not safe for everyone who was involved in the headquarters of Navalny and FBK to remain in Russia,” the activist said.

• Due to political pressure, ex-coordinators of Navalny's regional headquarters Alexander Belyaev , Lev Gyammer , Danila Buzanov , Semyon Kochkin, Irina Fatyanova , Sergei Boyko , former lawyer of Navalny's headquarters in Ufa Fyodor Telin , human rights activist Valentina Chupik , Altai activist Viktor Rau together with his grandson left Russia . and programmer Sergei Savelyev , who transferred the secret video archive of the Federal Penitentiary Service with torture of prisoners in Russian colonies to the human rights project Gulagu.net and others.
• At the end of September 2021, the Investigative Committee announced that a case had been opened against Navalny and his associates, as well as other activists, regarding an extremist community (Parts 1 and 2 of Article 282.1 of the Criminal Code). Later it became known that several other cases filed earlier against the politician and several key figures in his structures were added to this case.
• On November 10, the former coordinator of the Ufa headquarters of Alexei Navalny, Liliya Chanysheva, suspected of organizing the activities of an extremist community (Part 1 of Article 282.1 of the Criminal Code), was taken into custody . On November 21, she was transferred to pre-trial detention center No. 6 in Moscow.