‘I’m a horrible skeleton’: Navalny in court after hunger strike
Al JazeeraJailed Kremlin critic looks gaunt in video link images as he launches tirade against Putin. “Unsurprisingly, economists write letters and say that the last few years should be called a lost decade.” The latest episode in a series of court battles between Russian officials and Navalny came as the Kremlin critic’s allies announced they were closing their network of campaign offices amid intense pressure from Moscow. The Moscow prosecutor’s office petition calls for Navalny’s Foundation for Fighting Corruption and political network to be declared as “extremist” organisations, equating them with groups such as ISIL and al-Qaeda. Al Jazeera’s Bernard Smith, reporting from Moscow, said the Kremlin’s moves to “crack down on all of Navalny’s activities” were designed to put him and his movement “underground”. “We’re officially dismantling the network of Navalny’s headquarters.” Earlier this week, the Moscow prosecutor’s office had issued an injunction ordering Navalny’s regional offices to suspend their activities pending the court ruling on the “extremism” designation.
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