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Russian security forces raid Kremlin critic Navalny's election HQ

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MOSCOW Jul 06, 2017 - 12:00 am GMT+3
by Jul 06, 2017 12:00 am

Russian investigators raided the Moscow election headquarters of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny on Thursday and police entered a warehouse, where activists said they confiscated pre-election pamphlets.

Navalny, who has organised two big anti-government street protests in recent months, is currently serving out a 25-day jail term for repeatedly violating the law on organising public meetings. He is due out on Friday.

Navalny says he wants to run for the presidency in March next year, but the Central Election Commission has said he is ineligible due to an embezzlement conviction which Navalny says was politically-motivated.

His supporters are planning a series of campaign events for Saturday, including the distribution of some 5 million copies of the first edition of his pre-election newspaper.

"Moscow headquarters are seized. The locks are cut off again. The guard says that investigative works are being carried out. The person who was on duty at night does not answer. There are ten security forces members around the building. I guess the authorities are frightened of the campaign subbotnik," Anti-Corruption Fund official Nikolai Lyaskin said in a Facebook post.

Leonid Volkov, a Navalny ally, said the authorities were raiding election offices in other Russian towns and cities on Thursday too, systematically confiscating campaign literature.

He said Navalny's supporters would not cancel their campaign events in Moscow and elsewhere in Russia on Saturday.

"We'll go ahead anyway and we'll work as usual," Volkov told Reuters.

A police officer standing outside Navalny's raided campaign headquarters said he and his colleagues had entered the premises in connection with a dispute regarding the terms of the building's lease.

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