up hard for the movement in support of Alexeï Navalny. Russian justice ordered, this Monday, April 26, the suspension of the activities of organizations linked to the opponent of the Kremlin. These are threatened with being declared “extremists” and banned. This tireless 44-year-old anti-corruption activist, sworn enemy of President Vladimir Putin, for his part put an end to his hunger strike in detention on Friday. After 24 days of deprivation, his state of health had deteriorated sharply.
The measure taken precedes a trial for “extremism” targeting the structures of the opponent. In this context, a first preliminary hearing behind closed doors began on Monday, and another is scheduled for Thursday, April 29, the Moscow City Court told Agence France-Presse. “The activities of the offices of Navalny and the Anti-Corruption Fund (FBK) were immediately suspended,” Ivan Zhdanov, the director of the FBK, wrote on Twitter, accompanying his message with photographs of this decision taken by the prosecutor in the ‘waiting for this trial which could definitively prohibit their activities. “They are simply screaming: we are afraid of your activities, we are afraid of your demonstrations, we are afraid of your voting instructions,” he added.
Support organizations described as “extremists”
Germany, which like many other Western capitals demands the release of Alexei Navalny, condemned a decision “incompatible with the principles of the rule of law”. The Moscow office of the opponent for its part regretted on Telegram “not being able to work in the old format” because of this decision because “it would be too dangerous for our employees and for our supporters”.
The Russian prosecution asked in mid-April to qualify organizations linked to Alexeï Navalny as “extremists”, which would incur the collaborators and supporters of the opponent with heavy prison sentences. The prosecution accuses these structures of seeking to “create the conditions for the destabilization of the social and socio-political situation” in Russia, “under the guise of liberal slogans”.
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