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| Police reported on preventive conversations with participants in the protest in memory of Navalny |
| 2024-02-20 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited [KavkazUzel] The police conducted preventive conversations with 14 residents of Vladikavkaz, who, in memory of Alexei Navalny, tried to lay flowers at the memorial to victims of repression. As the "Caucasian Knot" wrote, after the death of Alexei Navalny, residents of the country's cities, including in southern Russia, were persecuted for attempting to honor the memory of the victims of repression. Thus, at least seven people were detained in Taganrog, one of them was fined for disobedience to the police. Protesters in Stavropol reported that dozens were taken to police stations. On February 16, the Federal Penitentiary Service for the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug reported that Alexei Navalny died in a colony after his condition sharply worsened. In Tbilisi, Batumi and Yerevan in the evening of the same day, activists paid tribute to Navalny. After Navalny’s death, 14 residents of Vladikavkaz tried to lay flowers at the monument to victims of political repression in Turgenevsky Square, a representative of the Ministry of Internal Affairs said at a staff meeting in the government of North Ossetia. According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, police officers held preventive conversations with these people and “issued warnings about preventing violations of the legislation of the Russian Federation regarding the conduct of unauthorized public events,” Osnova writes today. A representative of the republican Ministry of Internal Affairs also stated at a staff meeting that “a citizen who had nothing to do with the republic tried to organize a memorial event in Vladikavkaz,” ASTRA reports. As of 18.35 Moscow time, in the report on the last meeting, which was posted on the telegram channel and on the website of the government of the republic, there is no mention of the statement of the representative of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. By this time, the website and telegram channel of the republican Ministry of Internal Affairs also did not publish information that residents of Vladikavkaz tried to honor the memory of Alexei Navalny. At the same time, the republican Ministry of Internal Affairs today posted on its website a warning “about liability for participation in unauthorized actions.” “Law enforcement agencies will immediately suppress attempts to hold uncoordinated public events, as well as any provocative actions on the part of their participants,” the publication says. Let us recall that in August 2020, Alexey Navalny fell into a coma after being poisoned at the Omsk airport. Consciousness returned to him in Berlin, where Navalny was taken for treatment. Navalny said that Russian authorities were behind the attempt on his life. In January 2021, Alexei Navalny, who returned to Russia, was detained at Sheremetyevo airport. On February 2, 2021, the court sentenced Navalny to 3.5 years in prison; later new charges were brought against him and the term of imprisonment was increased. Political scientists recognized the rallies in his support, which took place in January 2021 throughout Russia, as the most massive in recent decades. |
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| #1 It's the same Navalny who said Muslims are cockroaches? |
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