On Friday, Russian police officers conducted a search of an apartment owned by the parents of Leonid Volkov, a close associate of opposition figure Alexey Navalny. Volkov is wanted by the authorities, but now lives in Lithuania.
According to Susanna Volkova, Leonid’s mother, three “polite and restrained” law enforcement officers arrived at her apartment at 6.30am local time, supposedly on the grounds of their son’s charges. A case has been opened against Volkov for violating sanitary rules regarding Covid-19, after he played a leading role in promoting the January 23 protests in support of anti-corruption activist Navalny.
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