Jailing in Russia of Navalny staff ‘attempt to disrupt’

They said that almost 1,000 demonstrators who took to streets to protest against Prime Minister for corruption charges were arrested and many of them were sentenced to imprisonment and fines.

He announced his intention to run for President in 2018 against Vladimir Putin. But Grigory Okhotin, an activist who has been coordinating legal assistance for those who were detained in the protests, said in an email that the protests represent years of frustration with the way the Russian government treats its people.

Tens of thousands of people took part in the anticorruption demonstrations in dozens of cities across Russian Federation on March 26.

The protests on Sunday were triggered by the apparent indifference of the Russian authorities to the investigative 50-minute documentary, He Is Not Dimon To You.

The protest in Tambov had been banned by authorities. One of the reasons the last wave of protests petered out was the disconnect between Moscow activists such as Navalny and grassroots organizers in the regions, says Mischa Gabowitsch, author of the bookProtest in Putin’s Russian Federation.

“I want to know the truth”, written on the placard that Nizhivenko was holding, got police attention, and she was scooped up into a police van. It merely wishes to exploit the protests to further the agenda of that section of the American ruling class that seeks a more direct intervention against Russian Federation, including by means of military aggression, and which has come into conflict with Trump and other sections of the ruling establishment that see the main enemy as China.

This story was first published on CNN.com, “Report: Hundreds arrested at anti-corruption protests in Russian Federation”. Some liberals question his flirtation with extreme nationalists, and he is denied nearly any airtime by the state-controlled media.

“We can’t respect people who deliberately misled minors – in essence children – calling on them to take part in illegal actions in unsanctioned places and offering them certain rewards to do so, thus putting their lives at risk”, said Peskov. But young people who do not remember those times have different priorities than those even a few years older, said Yekaterina Schulmann, a political analyst. Mr. Putin’s approval ratings soared to 86% after the 2014 Crimean annexation and have barely dipped since then.”I think the number of arrests shows that Putin is anxious”, says Mr. Luhn.

Neither are the protesting teenagers organised like the Kremlin youth movement Nashi but a generation born around the year 2000 who have known nothing but Putin and find his stability stagnant. Others include the Russian ambassador to Turkey, who was gunned down in front of video cameras by a supporter of Syria’s Al Qaeda, as well as Russia’s ambassador to the United Nations, Vitaly Ivanovich Churkin, who died of a heart attack in New York City last month. It’s the same excuse the Kremlin seized on to respond to the 2011 protests against electoral fraud.

On Monday, Putin met with senior officers of the National Guard, which took part in arresting participants in the demonstrations along with police, but he didn’t mention the protest.

Navalny was arrested as he walked to a protest in Moscow on Sunday and spent the night in jail before showing up in court. They generally do not watch television and can not be convinced to support Putin based on the story about the miserable 1990s, the period before he came to power. If found guilty, he could be jailed for 15 days for staging an unauthorized rally. Under Russian law, convicted felons are unable to run for office.

The political crackdown that paralyzed Moscow protesters may not have reached Tambov, a city of pretty 19th-century mansions and pot-holed roads, but the fear is still palpable here. A new possible wave of repressions may discourage many people from further activity like it was in the past. “I look better than I feel”, he noted, adding doctors warned him of another poisoning that “if you have a third time, that’ll be the last one”.

“This is wonderful. I’m very pleased that a generation has grown up that is not ready just to tolerate such treatment by the authorities, a generation that wants to feel like citizens”. “Who if not young people should rise up?”