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Kirill Kudryavtsev \/ AFP \/ Scanpix \/ LETA<\/figure>\n

Six months ago, on January 17, 2021, opposition politician Alexey Navalny returned to Russia and was immediately arrested at Moscow\u2019s Sheremetyevo Airport. Russian prison authorities accused him of violating probation while in Germany (where he spent about five months recovering from an assassination attempt) and a Moscow court incarcerated him under a reinstated sentence on February 2. Over the next several months, the Russian authorities destroyed Navalny\u2019s political and anti-corruption movement and launched an all-encompassing campaign of repressions against activists, human rights defenders, and independent journalists. Meduza looks back at the key moments in this crackdown.<\/p>\n

January 23<\/p>\n

\u2193<\/h2>\n

The \u201cSanitary Case.\u201d <\/strong>Thousands of people attended a rally in Moscow protesting Alexey Navalny\u2019s arrest and calling for his release. That same day, the Russian Investigative Committee launched a criminal case against a number of well-known activists for allegedly violating pandemic regulations. According to the investigation, they called for people to take to the streets in support of Navalny, thus provoking people to violate sanitary and epidemiological rules.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In total, there were ten defendants in the so-called \u201cSanitary Case,\u201d including opposition politician Lyubov Sobol, Navalny\u2019s press secretary Kira Yarmysh, his brother Oleg Navalny, Pussy Riot activists Maria Alyokhina and Lyusya Shteyn, and municipal deputy Konstantin Yankauskas. Investigators dropped the charges against Yankauskas in early June, but the other defendants are still under investigation.<\/p>\n

about the \u2018sanitary case\u2019<\/h3>\n

After the raids State investigators arrest Navalny\u2019s associates as suspects in a criminal caseEarly February<\/p>\n

\u2193<\/h2>\n

Suppressing protests by force.<\/strong> Pro-Navalny demonstrations on January 23 and 31, and on February 2, were met with violent police action; in total, nearly 10,000 people were detained at rallies across the country.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Russian authorities launched more than 90 criminal cases against protesters and nearly two dozen of these defendants were sentenced to jail time. Thousands of the detainees were charged with misdemeanors and ordered to pay major fines. Government officials maintained that no undue force was used against the demonstrators, despite the abundance of videos showing riot police officers beating people up.\u00a0<\/p>\n

about the pro-Navalny protests<\/h3>\n

\u2018Twelve thousand were detained, including 761 minors\u2019 Internal FSB report sheds new light on the number of protesters and detentions at January\u2019s pro-Navalny demonstrations\u00a0Lawful violence Top Moscow police official maintains that no undue force was used against pro-Navalny protesters\u2018They put a bag over my head and beat me up\u2019 Moscow protesters report torture and intimidation in police custodyFebruary 20<\/p>\n

\u2193<\/h2>\n

Another conviction for Navalny. <\/strong>Alexey Navalny, who was already serving time in prison, was found guilty of slandering World War II veteran Ignat Artemenko. Navalny\u2019s supposed crime was saying\u00a0that the people who appeared in a promotional video supporting the government\u2019s constitutional reforms were \u201ccorrupt bootlickers\u201d and \u201ctraitors.\u201d Since Artemenko briefly appeared in the video, a Moscow court fined Navalny 850,000 rubles (about $11,500) for insulting him.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Backstory<\/h3>\n

Navalny versus the veteran A defamation case pits Russia\u2019s opposition against \u2018RT\u2019 and the pro-Kremlin new mediaMarch 13<\/p>\n

\u2193<\/h2>\n

Pressuring independent municipal deputies. <\/strong>Moscow police disrupted the Municipal Russia Forum, which was attended by around 200 independent deputies from 56 of the country\u2019s regions. The police detained all of the participants, claiming that the forum was allegedly organized by an \u201cundesirable organization.\u201d Later, Moscow police officials said that the event was carried out \u201cin violation of the established sanitary and epidemiological requirements.\u201d<\/p>\n

On May 22, police disrupted a similar forum in Veliky Novgorod. The Interior Ministry said that its participants violated the anti-coronavirus restrictions in force in the Novgorod region.\u00a0<\/p>\n

April 9<\/p>\n

\u2193<\/h2>\n

IStories gets raided. <\/strong>FSB agents spent seven hours searching the apartment of IStories editor-in-chief Roman Anin, in connection with a criminal case for privacy violation. The case was launched back in 2016 over an article Anin wrote for Novaya Gazeta about a $100 million yacht belonging to Olga Rozhkova \u2014 the then-wife of Rosneft CEO Igor Sechin. Anin is currently a witness in the case.<\/p>\n

The FSB simultaneously raided the IStories newsroom \u2014 none of the investigative outlet\u2019s staff were there at the time.\u00a0<\/p>\n

about Roman Anin<\/h3>\n

Not everyone has what it takes Roman Anin, whose home and newsroom were raided by federal agents last week, explains the challenges of investigative journalism in Russia todaySechin\u2019s special forces Journalists spent years under FSB surveillance after gaining access to \u2018private\u2019 Instagram picsApril 14<\/p>\n

\u2193<\/h2>\n

The \u201cDoxa Case.\u201d <\/strong>Moscow police raided the office of the student journal Doxa. The authorities pressed criminal charges against four of the journal\u2019s editors for allegedly involving minors in unauthorized protests. A Moscow court placed them under de facto house arrest pending trial.<\/p>\n

The case was supposedly launched over a video Doxa published on January 23, in which the student journalists condemned university administrators for illegally threatening to expel students for attending pro-Navalny demonstrations.\u00a0<\/p>\n

For more on the \u2018doxa case\u2019<\/h3>\n

\u2018Unprecedented pressure\u2019 Police raid Russian student journal\u2019s office and its editors\u2019 homesSpies, student journalists, and life behind bars: A blowup in Moscow\u2019s relations with Prague, the felony case against \u2018Doxa,\u2019 and conditions in Russian prisons\u2018We are Doxa, too\u2019 Students and alumni pen open letter to top Russian universities in support of student journal\u00a0April 15<\/p>\n

\u2193<\/h2>\n

The \u201cApartment Case.\u201d <\/strong>Moscow\u2019s Mirovoy District Court found opposition politician Lyubov Sobol guilty of trespassing and handed her a one-year provisional sentence of community service, in addition to garnishing 10 percent of her wages.<\/p>\n

The case against Sobol was opened in December 2020, after she visited the home of Konstantin Kudryavtsev \u2014 one of the FSB agents implicated in Navalny\u2019s August 2020 poisoning. The injured party in the case was Kudryavtsev\u2019s mother-in-law, who claimed that Sobol pushed her and entered her apartment without permission. Kudryavtsev himself was neither a witness nor a victim in the case, because investigators couldn\u2019t establish his whereabouts.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

<\/h3>\n

\u2018A classic Putinist trial\u2019 Lyubov Sobol handed one-year suspended sentence for trespassing at the apartment of Navalny\u2019s alleged poisoner\u2018I called my killer and he confessed\u2019 Alexey Navalny says he fooled one of his FSB assassins into detailing the Kremlin\u2019s poisoning operationApril 23<\/p>\n

\u2193<\/h2>\n

Meduza is branded a \u201cforeign agent.\u201d <\/strong>The Russian Justice Ministry added Meduza to its registry of \u201cforeign agent media.\u201d It also blacklisted the website First Anti-Corruption Media project, which was launched in 2012.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The business outlet VTimes, which was founded in 2020 by journalists who left the well-known newspaper Vedomosti, was designated a \u201cforeign agent\u201d on May 14.<\/p>\n

Meduza lost nearly all of its advertising revenue due to its \u201cforeign agent\u201d status, but has continued to operate thanks to donations from readers. VTimes, however, was forced to close.<\/p>\n

about \u2018foreign agent\u2019 media<\/h3>\n

Meduza is you Almost 80,000 people have donated to keep this news organization alive. We\u2019re now retooling for sustainability as a \u2018foreign agent\u2019 in Russia. Here\u2019s our plan.Mr. Anti-Globalization Meet Alexander Ionov, the self-described \u2018human rights defender\u2019 who demanded that Russia label Meduza a \u2018foreign agent\u2019\u2018We were told that we\u2019re the enemies\u2019 \u00a0VTimes co-founder Alexander Gubsky on how the \u2018foreign agent\u2019 label killed this publicationIntolerable competition What fuels the Russian authorities\u2019 perpetual legitimacy crisisMay 5<\/p>\n

\u2193<\/h2>\n

The \u201canti-FBK law.\u201d <\/strong>A draft law was introduced to the Russian State Duma banning anyone involved in the activities of outlawed \u201cextremist\u201d groups from running for elected office in Russia at any level. Despite the fact that it contradicts the constitution, the bill has retroactive effect, meaning it applies to individuals who were affiliated with these groups before they were recognized as \u201cextremist.\u201d<\/p>\n

The media dubbed the legislation the \u201canti-FBK law\u201d due to speculation that it was passed to prevent Navalny\u2019s supporters from running in Russian elections. The bill was adopted as quickly as possible: just 30 days passed between its submission to the State Duma and President Vladimir Putin signing it into law.<\/p>\n

Backstory<\/h3>\n

Russian lawmakers want to ban Navalny\u2019s supporters from running for parliament. But their bill is completely ineffective (for now).May 27<\/p>\n

\u2193<\/h2>\n

Open Russia disbands. <\/strong>The nonprofit organization Open Russia (Otkrytaya Rossiya) announced that it was completely shutting down its operations against the backdrop of plans to tighten\u00a0Russia\u2019s legislation banning cooperation with \u201cundesirable organizations.\u201d Open Russia, which is linked to exiled former oil company executive Mikhail Khodorkovsky, isn\u2019t formally recognized as \u201cundesirable\u201d in Russia, but its activists have faced persecution for many years.\u00a0<\/p>\n

On May 31, law enforcement officers in St. Petersburg boarded a plane at the St. Petersburg airport to detain former Open Russia executive director Andrey Pivovarov, who was set to depart for Warsaw. Pivovarov was remanded in custody on charges of involvement in the activities of an \u201cundesirable organization\u201d \u2014 the criminal case was opened over a post he allegedly shared on Facebook in August 2020.\u00a0<\/p>\n

about Andrey Pivovarov\u2019s case<\/h3>\n

\u2018The plane was about to take off\u2019 Former Open Russia director Andrey Pivovarov under investigation following arrest at St. Petersburg airportJune 1<\/p>\n

\u2193<\/h2>\n

Gudkov leaves Russia, Reznik is detained. <\/strong>Police officers raided the home of opposition politician and former State Duma lawmaker Dmitry Gudkov, and detained him as a suspect in a criminal case for allegedly \u201ccausing property damage through deception or breach of trust.\u201d Moscow police released Gudkov after 48 hours without pressing charges \u2014 the opposition politician fled Russia for Ukraine. According to Gudkov, he was unofficially warned that if he didn\u2019t leave the country the case against would be continued. He also claimed that the property damage case was \u201csolely to prevent\u201d him from running in the fall elections.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Later, on June 17, St. Petersburg police detained opposition politician and local legislator Maxim Reznik on drug charges. He was placed under house arrest. Meanwhile, law enforcement officers in Moscow arrested municipal deputy Ketevan Kharaidze on fraud charges; she was transferred to house arrest after spending a month in a pre-trial detention center. Both politicians believe that criminal cases were opened against them to prevent them from standing for election in the fall.\u00a0<\/p>\n

<\/h3>\n

\u2018Public politics is over in Russia\u2019 Fearing arrest, Russian opposition politician Dmitry Gudkov flees to Ukraine\u2018It would\u2019ve been foolish to think they wouldn\u2019t come for us\u2019 Russian opposition politician Dmitry Gudkov is facing five years in prison. We spoke to his wife, Valeriya Gudkova, about his case.Opposition deputy Maxim Reznik detained on drug charges in St. PetersburgJune 8<\/p>\n

\u2193<\/h2>\n

Team Navalny declared \u201cextremist.\u201d <\/strong>The Moscow City Court designated Navalny\u2019s political and anti-corruption organizations as \u201cextremist,\u201d including his Anti-Corruption Foundation (the FBK) and his national network of campaign offices.<\/p>\n

This decision deprives people with any connection to these organizations of the right to be elected in Russia, in accordance with the aforementioned \u201canti-FBK law.\u201d Putin signed the bill into law four days before the court\u2019s ruling.<\/p>\n

On Russia banning the FBK<\/h3>\n

No, this is not the end Sociologist Konstantin Gaaze says the Kremlin\u2019s crackdown on political competitors has mythologized Alexey NavalnyHundreds of thousands of extremists Russia has finally outlawed Alexey Navalny\u2019s political and anti-corruption movement. Here\u2019s how the crackdown affects activists, journalists, and ordinary supporters.June 16<\/p>\n

\u2193<\/h2>\n

Pressure on Pussy Riot. <\/strong>Moscow police arrested Pussy Riot activist Veronika Nikulshina. The next day, she was jailed for fifteen days on charges of disobeying a police officer. The police report claimed that Nikulshina allegedly intended to disrupt the events of the Euro 2020 soccer championship in St. Petersburg. The day after her release from a special detention center, Nikulshina was arrested again and jailed for another 15 days. She left Russia on July 18, after being released from custody for the second time.<\/p>\n

Pussy Riot activists Maria Alyokhina and Alexander Sofeev were also handed back-to-back jail time, along with their friends \u2014 director Anna Kuzminykh and photographer Dmitry Vorontsov.\u00a0<\/p>\n

about the persecution of Pussy Riot<\/h3>\n

Chasing phantom protests Meduza looks into why Moscow police arrested four Pussy Riot activists in a single dayJune 25<\/p>\n

\u2193<\/h2>\n

The \u201canti-FBK law\u201d in action. <\/strong>Election officials in Moscow refused to register opposition politician Ilya Yashin\u2019s candidacy for the upcoming City Duma election, citing his support for Navalny\u2019s Anti-Corruption Foundation (the FBK). Yashin argued that this decision was illegal because 1) his ties to an \u201cextremist\u201d group were never proven in court and 2) the verdict outlawing Navalny\u2019s FBK hadn\u2019t yet entered into force. On July 7, the Moscow City Court sided with election officials and ruled that it was legal to refuse to register Yashin\u2019s candidacy.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Oleg Stepanov and Sergy Ukhov, who ran Navalny\u2019s campaign offices in Moscow and Perm region, respectively, were also barred from running in the fall elections on similar grounds.<\/p>\n

<\/h3>\n

Get off my ballot Abusing a new law against \u2018extremists,\u2019 Russian election officials have started barring opposition candidatesJuly 15<\/p>\n

\u2193<\/h2>\n

Proekt is outlawed as \u201cundesirable.\u201d\u00a0<\/strong>The Russian Attorney General\u2019s office declared the American company\u00a0\u201cProject Media Inc.\u201d \u2014 the publisher behind the investigative outlet Proekt \u2014 an \u201cundesirable organization\u201d and outlawed its activities. Simultaneously, the Justice Ministry added five of Proekt\u2019s journalists, including editor-in-chief Roman Badanin, to its list of \u201cforeign agents\u201d (along with two other journalists from Open Media and a Radio Svoboda correspondent).\u00a0<\/p>\n

about Russia banning Proekt<\/h3>\n

Outlaw journalism Legally speaking, this is what Proekt\u2019s \u2018undesirable\u2019 designation means for Russia\u2019s news media and readers\u2018Just peace and quiet\u2019 Journalists identify the man whose complaint apparently led Russian officials to outlaw a top investigative news outletToo taboo Before Russia banned Proekt, this is whom its journalists investigatedJuly 16<\/p>\n

\u2193<\/h2>\n

Team 29 disbands. <\/strong>Russia\u2019s censorship agency, Roskomnadzor, blocked the website of Team 29 \u2014 an association of lawyers, attorneys, and journalists who specialize in defending clients charged with treason, divulging state secrets, and espionage. Roskomnadzor claimed that Team 29 published materials on its website from an \u201cundesirable organization\u201d \u2014 the Prague-based NGO \u201cSpolecnost Svobody Informace\u201d (Freedom of Information Society). Team 29 denied the allegations.<\/p>\n

Two days later, Team 29 announced it was disbanding to protect its members and supporters from prosecution.\u00a0<\/p>\n

On Team 29 <\/h3>\n

\u2018We\u2019re like a bone in their throat\u2019 After seven years of defending Russia\u2019s most difficult political cases, prominent legal group Team 29 disbands fearing prosecutionNo soldiers but ready for battle For years, lawyers at Team 29 have taken on some of Russia\u2019s most hopeless human rights cases. Now federal charges against the group\u2019s leader are testing the team\u2019s resolve.<\/p>\n

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Story by Grigory Levchenko<\/strong><\/p>\n

Translation by Eilish Hart<\/strong><\/p>\n

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