Moscow: The most prominent critic of the Kremlin, Alexei Navalny said Monday, he did not regret returning to Russia a year ago, despite historical prison and historic acts on the opposition.
Navalny was detained at Moscow Airport by returning to Russia from Germany on January 17 last year, linging a hard action for months who had seen His most prominent ally imprisoned or exiled.
“I don’t regret a while,” Navalny wrote in a post on Instagram from the criminal colony outside Moscow.
“After serving my first year in prison, I wanted to tell everyone what I screamed to those who gathered outside the court when a convoy took me to the police van: Don’t be afraid of anything,” Navalny added.
“This is our country and we don’t have anything else.” Navalny August 2020 poisoned with a nerve agent designed by Soviet Novichok and his next arrest triggered extensive condemnation abroad and also sanctions from Western Capital.
Moscow refused to open an investigation into his life efforts, claiming there was no sufficient evidence to open the probe and blame Berlin because it did not work together.
Upon returning to Russia Navalny was imprisoned for more than two years on charges of old fraud he said politically motivated.
Towards his desire warning, Russia last week added two helplings nearby opposition leaders to the list of “terrorists and extremists”.
Ivan Zhdanov, 33, the Navalny’s Anti-Corruption Foundation LED, which produces a very popular video probe accusing the authorities of systemic grafts, while Leonid Volkov is 41 years old to the Navalny Regional Office network.
The two organizations were banned by the Russian court and were covered by staff who were afraid of prosecution.
Last month, the researcher questioned several former regional Navalny coordinators, including Ksenia Fadeyeva, who was also a local parliamentary member in the city of Siberia Tomsk.
Allies said he faced up to 12 years in prison for working with extremist organizations.
Last year’s investigator launched a new extremism probe against Navalny who could see opposition leaders spent up to 10 more years in prison.
The European Parliament last year gave a gift Navalny The Sakharov for freedom of thinking after he was nominated, but passed, for Nobel peace gifts.
Increasing historic hard action in important voices in Russia, the authorities have established dozens of rights groups, media outlets, journalists and anti-kremlin “foreign agents”.
In December, the court ordered the closure of the country’s leading rights groups, Memorial.
The group recorded the cleansing of the Stalin era and campaigned for the rights of political, migrants and other disadvantaged groups.
The court on Monday rejected two appeals Navalny had brought authority for his care in the criminal colony.
Navalny appeared in court through a video link, sitting behind the bar in a prison uniform in front of the Petushki District Court in the Vladimir area where he was detained.
Cases were heard on Monday regarding the prison salary and his appointment as a risk of flight, the Russian television channel which was independent dozhd reported.
A year after arrest, Navalny said it wasn’t ‘sorry’ about returning to Russia
