Police in the Russian capital Moscow cracked down on supporters of late Kremlin opponent Alexei Navalny, who gathered for a memorial service on his birthday. A special unit arrested about thirty mourners, as video footage also shows.
On Tuesday evening, representatives of a special forces stormed a room in northeastern Moscow where several dozen people had gathered to watch the live broadcast of a Navalny memorial concert in Berlin, according to civil rights group Ovd-Info. About thirty people have now been arrested, searched and interrogated.
Putin’s most dangerous opponent
Navalny, who would have turned 48 on Tuesday, was considered one of Kremlin chief Vladimir Putin’s fiercest critics during his lifetime and a political prisoner since his captivity in 2021. Last February, he died for reasons that are still unclear in a prison camp in the extreme north of Russia. His relatives and supporters speak of murder – also because Navalny had barely survived a nerve attack a few years earlier in the summer of 2020 and was therefore in weakened health.
At Navalny’s funeral some three months ago, despite widespread repression, surprisingly thousands of people gathered in Moscow and mourned the popular opposition politician. Otherwise, there are hardly any protests anymore because the authorities usually nip them in the bud and immediately arrest participants.
Source: Krone
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