Russia Raids Offices of Kremlin Critic Over Refusal to Take Down Video About Medvedev
December 27th, 2019Via: AFP:
Russian security officials searched the offices of leading Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny’s anti-corruption foundation on Thursday, with his team calling the raid a new bid to disrupt their work.
Navalny linked the searches to his refusal to take down a 2017 video report that accused Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev of massive corruption and has racked up nearly 33 million views on YouTube.
“What’s happening is part of the coordinated campaign against the anti-corruption foundation,” Navalny, 43, told reporters, but vowed that his organisation would not be intimidated.
“This complicates our work but we will not halt it,” said Navalny, President Vladimir Putin’s most outspoken critic, adding it was the fifth such raid on the foundation.
