Former coordinator of Alexei Navalny's headquarters in Chelyabinsk left Russia

The ex-coordinator of Navalny's Chelyabinsk headquarters, Alexey Tabalov, left Russia. He himself talks about this on his Facebook page.

reported “Today is 5 months since I no longer live in Russia. Yes, I left, or rather, I evacuated. Forced. I resisted this idea until the last moment, but my former colleagues insisted. You know, radically changing your life when you are over 40 is very difficult.

The reason for my departure was the arrest of the ex-coordinator of Navalny’s Ufa headquarters, Liliya Chanysheva. I knew Lilya personally, I was at her headquarters when she opened it. Even after her arrest, I tried to console myself that maybe everything would work out, because I left the headquarters back in 2018.

While already abroad, they sent me a protocol of interrogation of the “witness” in the case of Liliya Chanysheva - the provocateur Arslan Nigamatyanov, according to whose “testimony” Lilia was arrested. At the moment of reading this fifteen-page protocol, it dawned on me that I had made the right decision - the bulk of the testimony in the protocol was given to me. There was much less and less detail on Lilia. The entire “story” in the protocol was skillfully brought under the given conditions - a criminal article about the organization of an extremist community. So when you remember me, remember Arslan, thanks to whose actions all this happened.

When I left, I still hoped to return. In six months, maybe a year. Considering what is happening in Russia and with Russia now, I do not have the opportunity to return because of my anti-war and human rights activities, which can now easily be brought under a number of newly created criminal articles. I'm not ready for this. I am not Alexey Navalny, I do not have the same self-sacrifice as him, my sense of self-preservation is much higher, I do not want to give 5-10-15 years of my life to prison and Putin’s ghouls,” Tabalov said.

• Liliya Chanysheva is a suspect in a criminal case regarding the activities of an extremist community against Alexei Navalny and his supporters. In November 2021, Chanyshev, who is charged with organizing the activities of an extremist community (Part 1 of Article 282.1 of the Criminal Code), . In April she was arrested until July. the excited person was taken into custody extended
• At the end of September 2021, the Investigative Committee announced that there was a case against Navalny and his associates, as well as other activists, about an extremist community (Parts 1 and 2 of Article 282.1 of the Criminal Code). Later it became known that there were several other cases brought against the politician and several key figures in his structures in connection with this case. Currently, within the framework of one case, in addition to the article on the extremist community, there are also articles on (Part 1 of Article 282.3 of the Criminal Code), on (Clause “b”, Part 4 of Article 174 of the Criminal Code), on (Part 2 of Art. 239 of the Criminal Code), and o (paragraphs “a”, “c”, part 2 of article 151.2 of the Criminal Code). initiated joined to the financing of extremist activities of the legalization of funds acquired by other persons criminally by creating a non-profit organization that encroaches on the identity and rights of citizens involving minors in dangerous activities - June 9, 2021 Moscow City Court Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK), Foundation for the Protection of Citizens' Rights (FZPG) and the headquarters of Alexei Navalny by extremist organizations. The Court of Appeal is the decision. admitted approved