Here’s what some of Russia’s top experts expect in the aftermath of Alexey Navalny’s imprisonment Moscow City Court / Reuters / Scanpix / LETA Sentencing Alexey Navalny to nearly three years in prison appears to be a watershed moment in Russian politics — an event many are comparing to the jailing of billionaire Mikhail Khodorkovsky and the Kremlin’s assault on dissent among the nation’s elites, which defined much of Vladimir Putin’s early presidency.

The authorities of Kazan agreed on an opposition rally "against detentions and repressions and changes in the electoral legislation to the State Duma." This was reported in the local branch of the Yabloko party. The action will be held on February 14 at the Millennium Square in the center of Kazan. The city administration required the participants to comply with sanitary requirements, in particular, to be at least one and a half meters apart from each other.

In Moscow, police officers detained Aviasales SMM manager Roman Bordunov. This is reported by the correspondent of "MBH Media" from the scene. The police tried to get into the apartment of Bordunov's girlfriend, where he was, from 12 noon. After his arrest, he was taken to the Yaroslavskoye police station. The reason for the arrest was not given by the officers.

Opposition politician Alexey Navalny’s associates announced on Thursday that they do not intend to stage further protests in the coming weekends, suspending a campaign that has mobilized thousands of Russians in recent weeks and led to arrests across the country for supposedly unlawful assemblies.

Alexei Navalny's associates will not hold rallies in support of him this coming weekend, Leonid Volkov, head of the politician's headquarters network, said on Navalny Live. According to Volkov, the next rallies will be held in the spring and summer. If we go out every week, we will get thousands more arrested and hundreds more beaten. The work of headquarters will be paralyzed and it will be impossible to work on elections just for nothing. This is not what Alexey asks of us.

The number of criminal cases opened after the protests in support of Alexei Navalny has reached 50. This was reported by the head of the human rights group Agora, Pavel Chikov.

Is it too soon for Russia to declare victory over extremist groups in the North Caucasus? Alexander Zemlyanichenko / AP / Scanpix / LETA Ten years ago, in January 2011, a suicide bomber detonated a bomb in Moscow’s Domodedovo Airport. He died on the spot and 37 others died later in hospitals. Like most terrorist attacks in Russia at the time, it was organized by religious separatists from the country’s North Caucasus region.

Interview with Alexander Kornienko - Chairman of the Party "Servant of the People" and ally of Vladimir Zelensky Pavlo Gonchar / Sopa / Zuma / Scanpix / Leta On February 2, Vladimir Zelensky signed a sentences against the deputy of the Verkhovna Rada from the party “Opposition Platform - for Life” (OPZH) Taras Kozak and 112 Ukraine television channels, Newsone and Zik, which he owns.

On the website and in the social networks of Alexei Navalny, his appeal to supporters appeared. This is the first appeal published by the politician after the court replaced his suspended sentence in the Yves Rocher case with a real one. Of course, I have heard this phrase many times: "It is impossible to deprive someone who is free inside." And now I honestly ask myself: “Well, how does it work?”. Believe me, it works.

This is what is happening there - says the special corner of the "Medusa" Maxim Solopov After the shares in support of Alexei Navalny, hundreds of people throughout Russia were arrested for different periods of administrative imprisonment. In Moscow, due to lack of places in people's insulators, they began to bring to the deportation center for migrants in the village of Sakharovo in New Moscow.

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree approving a list of indicators by which the efficiency of the governors and governments of the Russian regions will be assessed. There are a total of 20 performance indicators in the document. In the first place is "trust in the authorities" - that is, the president and the leadership of the region - on the part of the population.

Kazbek Bitarov, a businessman and brother of the head of North Ossetia Vyacheslav Bitarov, committed suicide. This was reported by sources of Yug. MBKh Media , Kavkaz.Realii and the 360 ​​channel. Baza also writes about this. The press secretary of the head of North Ossetia, Fatima Sabanova, confirmed to Podyom that Kazbek Bitarov is dead. "The fact that he is not here is true, I can confirm that.

Your Browser Does Not Support the Audio Element. Is the Kremlin really afraid of protests? And if people come out even more, will something change? We speak with the researcher of authoritarianism Margarita Zavadskaya On February 2, Alexei Navalny was replaced by a conditional term with the real in the case of Yves Rocher. He was sentenced to three and a half years in prison. Given the time of house arrest, the politician will spend two years and eight months in the colony.

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Alexey Navalny will be appearing in court on Friday, February 5, for a hearing in the criminal case against him for defaming a World War II veteran. Moscow’s Babushkinsky District Court confirmed to RIA Novosti that Navalny will be attending the hearing in person.