“This is quite unpleasant, I won’t deny it.”
Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, his wife Yulia, opposition politician Lyubov Sobol and other demonstrators march in memory of murdered Kremlin critic Boris Nemtsov in downtown Moscow on February 29, 2020.
Navalny said that because of the blocked accounts his daughter, who is a student at Stanford University, was without money and that his retired parents could not receive their pensions. In August, a Moscow district court froze 75 million rubles held in accounts by the foundation and staff members.Ivan Zhdanov, the director of Navalny’s foundation, said authorities had also blocked the bank accounts of his family.Navalny said on Tuesday the Kremlin was retaliating against his “smart voting” campaign, which saw a number of Kremlin-friendly candidates lose their seats in local elections last September.
“The fear of ‘Smart voting’ is so great that there’s a need to strangle on all fronts without thinking about the impression they make,” Navalny said, vowing to pummel the ruling United Russia party in the upcoming ballots. Asked to comment on claims that Navalny is being punished for his activism, Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov said: “The Kremlin does not deal with bank accounts of Russian citizens.”In the run-up to the September local elections, Navalny and his supporters organised a wave of protests after popular opposition politicians were barred from standing in the Moscow municipal election, prompting a massive police crackdown.
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