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VOA Exclusive: Navalny Deputy Calls Assets Freeze a Predictable,
'Psychological Projection'

Danila Galperovich

   This story originated in [1]VOA's Russian Service.Some information is
   from AFP.

   WASHINGTON -- The fundraising chief for prominent Russian opposition
   figure Alexei Navalny says a Moscow court's decision to freeze
   financial assets of the jailed activist's anti-corruption watchdog is a
   laughably predictable outcome that says more about the group's success
   in exposing widespread corruption than the money laundering charges
   it's now facing.

   A Moscow district court Thursday froze the assets of Navalny's
   Foundation for Fighting Corruption (FBK), which was set up to spotlight
   the excessively lavish lifestyles of top government and Kremlin
   officials.

   "It is actually very funny," Leonid Volkov told VOA's Russian Service
   just hours after criminal charges landed, pointing out that the
   investigation coincides with a crackdown that has seen Navalny jailed
   and thousands of people detained at some of the largest free-election
   rallies Moscow has seen since Putin's 2012 term began.

   "It has already been noted that when someone needs to be accused of
   murder, the call always comes from MP Lugovoi, who is actually accused
   of murder in Britain," said Volkov, referring to former KGB officer
   Andrei Lugovoi, a member of the State Duma committee on security and
   countering corruption, who stands accused in the 2006 poisoning of
   former Russian intelligence officer Alexander Litvinenko.

References

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