Oppositionist Alexei Navalny, who is serving a sentence in a Vladimir colony, said that a new criminal case had been opened against him. His letter was posted on Twitter.
According to Navalny, the notification he received from the Investigative Committee said that he was the «leader of a criminal group», which included his associates, including the arrested Lilia Chanysheva and the emigrated Leonid Volkov and Ivan Zhdanov.
The members of the group, as Navalny continues, are accused of calling for terrorism and extremism (Articles 205.2, 280 of the Criminal Code), financing extremism (Article 282.3 of the Criminal Code) because of the broadcasts of the Popular Politics YouTube channel ) and the rehabilitation of Nazism (Article 354.1 of the Criminal Code).
“As far as I understood from the decision, my fault in the propaganda of Nazism lies in the fact that Volkov on the air of Popular Politics said that «correctly, Colonel Stauffenberg attempted on Hitler, he must be killed» <…> Everything else is in the same vein. All programs of "Popular Politics" is terror and extremism under my leadership,” the politician retells the document.
2/7 Received an official notification that a new criminal case has been initiated against me due to the fact that while in prison I:
— promoted terrorism, called for it
— publicly called for extremism
—financed extremist activities
—rehabilitated Nazism.— Alexey Navalny (@navalny) October 20, 2022
Navalny is now in IK-6 in the Vladimir region. After being detained at the airport in January 2021, he was sent to a colony, replacing the suspended sentence in the Yves Rocher case. Already in the colony, the court considered another criminal case against the oppositionist. Navalny was sentenced to nine years in a strict regime colony on cases of especially large fraudwhen collecting donations for the work of the FBK and contempt of court , who handled his libel case against a veteran.
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