Opposition leader Alexei A. Navalny died six months later Russian prison Above the Arctic Circle, Constantine A. Kotov woke to find the siege Moscow apartment.
After breaking the door, Russian officers were seized by Mr. Navalny, the activist of the 2018 president of the 2018 president and his brother's campaign. Then they arrested Mr. Kotov and took it.
His alleged crime: Mr. Navalny's anti-corruption fund of the Kremlin considers an extremist group of about $ 30, about $ 30 forgiveness.
Mr Navalny a year ago, Once ten thousands of rus once carried the Kremlin on the streets of MoscowHe has already struck Russia Incidental opposition. President Vladimir V. Putin fled in 2022 before Ukraine started the occupation of Ukraine and in the run outside the opposition.
Dear Navalny, along with the dead and his movement, continues after people who link to him and his organization. Some see the following persecution as a repressive Russian machine operating in autopilot. Others look at a Moscow that see the legacy of the opposition figure as a continuous threat.
“They do more than the habit, not like a new campaign,” he said.
However, as the Possed from Russia's monarchy before Russia's monarchy, Russia's monarchy, Russia's monarchy said in 1917 to leave the Bolshevik in the internal intelligence service, and the same-risk underground service.
“Compared to the Bolsheviks and the Russian revolution, these people include the heads,” said Soldatov from London. “Tsarist Russia collapsed for a large war and underground political party.”
Authorities focused on extensive goals.
Last year, they followed the remaining journalists in Russia and continued to accuse Mr. Navalny's testing of Mr. Navalny.
Antonina Favorskaya for Sota Vision Media Outlet was arrested on the charges of “participating in an extremist organization” in the last march. Mrs. Navalny was charged with the shooting of images used by their associates on media platforms.
A rare correspondent to take part in court hearings for Mr. Navalny shortly before Mrs. Favorskaya very high The last-known video of his opening videos of the Arctic Prison was killed in the court.
The Russian authorities then arrested three more journalists and sued all together. Artyom Kriger, one of the accused, others and others have been accused of filming interviews for Youtube channel in Russia's meetings in Russia.
There should still be a judgment.
Moscow also accused Mr. Navalny's lawyers.
A court in 80 miles east of Moscow last month convicted Three lawyers for Dear Navalny have sentenced a sentenced to five and a half years in prison for the rapes to the allies of the rapid politician. The court decided that Mr. Navalny was Tantamount to “participate” in the illegal movement.
Mr. Navalny's lawyers insisted on the ordinary legal affairs they passed on communication work on behalf of the imprisoned customers.
Circumstances that want to punish ordinary Russians to donate the ordinary Russians to Mr. Navalny, some have increased in courts for $ 3.
Russia has tried at least 15 people on charges of financing an extremist organization to send donations to the anti-corruption fund of the Russian government. In the last few months, the local media gave such accusations against a doctor from Bysh to a doctor, surrounding UFA from UFA from St. Petersburg.
“These are simply 500 rubles to the Anti-Corruption Foundation,” People who transfer 500 rubles for the Anti-Corruption Foundation, “Mr. Kotov, a wired 39-year-old activist for a human rights organization, is more than a little $ 5.
A donation was opened against him, Mr. Kotov has been in radar for a rally against the Kremlin's abuse of the Russian government for a long time.
In 2019, he was one of the first people arrested under a new Russian law, which restricts freedom of assembly in Executive Protests. (The law later sets the main jobs for a general protest ban on Russia to help calm Russia.)
18 months in prison, most of Russia spent about 60 miles east of Moscow in a harsh facing in Vladimir.
Shortly after Mr Kotov was released, Mr. Navalny returned to Russia and returned to Russia in Germany a fatal poisoning. Mr Navalny Mr Kotov would end in the same prison during the weeks.
That year, the Russian court canceled the anti-corruption fund of illegal and liquidated Mr. Navalni, and he canceled the extremist. He criminalized the authority, which prevents the ordinary Russians who hold the group for years.
Mr Navalny took the best assistants to YouTube and made a urgent plead Saying the organization alive and supported, they said they have prepared a reliable system for supporters to transfer the state to a bank account outside Russia.
Mr. Kotov saw Mr. Navalny felt the same prison and had a personal connection. Believing that the new platform is reliable, 500 rubles have signed a donation to a donation.
“Alexei, who did not agree with the abolition of the Anti-Corruption Foundation and was in prison, was a gesture to show I support Navalny,” Mr. Kotov. “I wanted his activities to continue.”
In January 2022, half a year, Mr. Kotov stopped nervous and donations. But then it was too late. Some operations revealed the foreign bank information of the anti-corruption fund to the Russian government, including reference to the group. Donations were not valid.
The next month, Mr. Putin attacked Ukraine, Mr. Kotov asked to take out Moscow's streets and protest against the war. He was arrested quickly and was held next month. Two years and a half later, the authorities came to his apartment and arrested him for a gift of 500 rubles to Mr. Navalny. Acknowledged the guilt.
The court released him under house arrest. He first thought he would stay in Russia. Other donors accused of the same crime were removed by fines.
But then a court in Moscow in December ruminate Ivan S. Tishchenko, a 46-year-old heart surgeon, Mr. Navalny Foundation sinners to send 3,500 rubles. His punishment: four years in prison.
Dr. Tishchenko, the Russian government was subscribed to donations against the corruption fund before violations of the law in 2021.
Dr. Tishchenko's lawyer Natalya Tixonova, described The judgment “never hurt thousands of people and definitely never harmed Russia to damage the constitutional rule.”
Mr Kotov, who was careful not to return to the Russian prison, fled to Lithuania this year.
In an interview there, Mr. Kotov described Mr. Navalny's hope, “he said, this regime is immortal until the end of this regime,” he said.
“Alexei Navalny was a symbol of a beautiful Russian, the future, a happy symbol of the future,” he said. “When these characters go, I began to feel very bad.”
“But we still live,” he said. “We can't give up.”