Russian law enforcement authorities on Thursday carried out mass raids on the ho...
MOSCOW - Russian law enforcement authorities on Thursday carried out mass raids on the homes and offices of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny’s supporters across the country, a move he described as the biggest crackdown of its kind in modern Russian history.
The raids happened four days after the ruling United Russia party, which supports President Vladimir Putin, lost a third of its seats in the Moscow city assembly while easily retaining its dominant nationwide position. Authorities told activists that the searches were related to a money-laundering investigation into Navalny’s Anti-Corruption Foundation, an organization that has published embarrassing investigations into what it says is the wrongdoing of corrupt officials.
Leonid Volkov, another senior Navalny ally, published a list of towns and cities where activists had been targeted. “The state has two tasks - to frighten and steal,” wrote Volkov. “It’s obvious that the aim of this operation is to destroy our headquarters structure and to obstruct the work of our headquarters.”
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