A new lawsuit was filed against Alexei Navalny

The Moscow City Court came to a new lawsuit against the politician Alexei Navalny. The Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the Smolensk region requires to recover overturned overtime, paid by the police for trips to rallies in Moscow on July 27 and August 3, 2019. The co -standers are Ivan Zhdanov, Lyubov Sobol, Ilya Yashin, Vladimir Milov and Oleg Stepanov - the former head of the Moscow headquarters of Navalny.

According to the ex-director of the "Corruption Fund" Ivan Zhdanov, the amount that the security forces require compensate for is small: about 50 thousand rubles. “Probably, the statute of limitations, which is three years, was served. Apparently, in 2019, Smolensk police officers were attracted to disperse the rallies. But we will not pay anything,” Zhdanov said .

For regional heads of the police, the practice of filing such claims is not new: earlier for work at last year’s rallies, the opposition of hundreds of thousands of rubles of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in Bashkortostan , the Penza , Kirov regions did not succeed in the opposition, the Zaks.ru portal reports . A similar lawsuit was filed by Mosgortrans, which asked to compensate for "simple vehicles" due to rallies, the Russian Guard and the Moscow Metro.

• The Corruption Foundation was founded by the opposition politician Alexei Navalny in 2011. He was investigating corruption schemes in the highest bodies of the Russian government. In 2019, the Ministry of Justice of Russia included the FBK in the list of "foreign agents", in 2021 the fund was recognized as an extremist organization, its activities in Russia were prohibited.
• Alexei Navalny was arrested in February 2021, after returning from Germany, where he was treated after the alleged attempt to poison. In March 2021, the Lefortovo District Court of Moscow sentenced Navalny to 9 years in prison in a maximum security colony. Navalny is serving a term in the IK-2 colony in the Pokrov of the Vladimir Region.