Moscow:
Jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny’s aides known as Tuesday for new anti-government rallies this weekend outdoors the Moscow headquarters of the Federal Security Service (FSB) safety agency and the offices of Vladimir Putin’s presidential administration.
The 44-year-old opposition figure’s group posted an occasion on Facebook calling for his supporters in Moscow to collect at noon (0900 GMT) on Sunday at Lubyanka Square outdoors the FSB headquarters and Staraya Square, exactly where the presidential administration has its offices.
The group stated that protesters will then march by way of the Russian capital from the two squares, which are positioned about one kilometre apart along a street in central Moscow.
“The direction of the march will be determined depending on the situation,” the organisers wrote.
Russian police on Saturday detained practically 3,900 folks — a record for a single day — at rallies in more than one hundred cities across the nation, exactly where demonstrators have been calling for Navalny’s release and protesting against the government.
The Kremlin critic was detained practically two weeks ago when he arrived to Moscow from Germany, exactly where he had been recovering following a poisoning attack with a Soviet-era nerve agent.
Navalny accuses the Federal Security Service of carrying out the poisoning on Putin’s orders, a claim the Kremlin has repeatedly denied.
Leonid Volkov, the head of Navalny’s regional network, told AFP that organisers had decided to collect protesters at the FSB due to the fact they are the “poisoners” and the presidential administration due to the fact they “make the decisions about whether to jail or release Navalny”.
“So of course we are appealing to them,” he stated.
Volkov earlier known as on Russians to rally once again to place stress on the authorities to release Navalny ahead of he is due in court on February 2 on charges of breaking the terms of a 2014 suspended sentence.
The Kremlin critic could be jailed for more than 3 years if the court guidelines in favour of Russia’s prison service, which says Navalny failed to verify in with it twice per month even though he was recovering in Germany.
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