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"More than 100 people were detained in eight cities across Russia after they
came to lay flowers in memory of Navalny, according to OVD-Info, a group that
monitors political repression in Russia.
On Saturday, police blocked access to a memorial in the Siberian city of
Novosibirsk and detained several people there as well as in another Siberian
city, Surgut, OVD-Info said.
A video shared on social media from Novosibirsk showed people sticking red
flowers upright in the snow under the watchful eye of police who blocked access
to the memorial with tape.
In Moscow, flowers were removed overnight from a memorial near the headquarters
of Russia's Federal Security Service by a large group while police looked on, a
video showed. But by morning more flowers had appeared.
The news of Navalny's death comes less than a month before an election that
will give Putin another six years in power.
It shows “that now, the sentence in Russia for opposition is not merely
imprisonment, but death,” said Nigel Gould-Davies, a former British ambassador
to Belarus and senior fellow for Russia & Eurasia at the International
Institute for Strategic Studies in London."
Via Rixty Dixet.
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
