A group of close associates of the Russian opposition figure Alexey Navalny, including activist Lyubov Sobol and his spokeswoman Kira Yarmysh have been detained in Moscow ahead of illegal protests announced for this weekend.
All of the detained work for Navalny’s Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK). Sobol, the organization’s legal advisor, was detained as she was travelling in a car with her own lawyer, Vladimir Voronin, who wrote about the incident on social media.
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