The Navalny case raised anxious questions not only in Russia.
Only another Putin critic was seriously injured.
The Kremlin sees no connection.
After Alexei Navalny, another Kremlin critic has now been hospitalized with serious injuries.
Unknown people apparently attacked the journalist and blogger Yegor Zhukov in front of his apartment in Moscow.
The eyes are now again on Russian President Vladimir Putin - but a Kremlin spokesman saw no connection between the cases.
Update from September 1, 5:05 p.m.:
Russian authorities have
massively overdrawn
the account of an
opposition activist
and ally of
Alexei Navalny in
order to collect a fine of 34 million rubles (around 390,000 euros) imposed on them.
On
Monday
,
Lyubov Sobol
shared
a photo of her bank account
on the short message service Twitter
, which is now deep in the red.
The actions of the
bailiffs
are related to a trial against the
anti-corruption foundation FBK of
the well-known Kremlin
critic Navalny
, who is currently in a coma at the Charité in Berlin.
"I never had such sums in my accounts," wrote Sobol.
“How's your Monday morning?” She commented on a screenshot of her balance.
FBK, Navalny and Sobol
were sentenced last year for
defamation
to pay a total of 88 million rubles in damages to the catering company Moskowskj Schkolnik (Moscow student), which, according to media reports, is connected to the Kremlin businessman Yevgeny Prigozhin.
The anti-corruption foundation had accused the company of creating a monopoly and of delivering bad food to Moscow schools.
Sobol
worked as a lawyer for FBK.
Prigozhin announced last week that he would
ruin
Sobol and
Navalny.
He said he had transferred the 88 million rubles to the company for this purpose, so that Navalny and Sobol would now owe him the fine personally.
According to media reports,
Prigozhin
also
finances
the notorious Russian mercenary group Wagner.
He himself denies that.
Navalny
closed FBK in July to avoid being fined.
Sobol represents the well-known opposition as a lawyer and manages his YouTube channel.
(
afp)
After Navalny: Next Putin critic seriously injured - Navalny still in a coma
Moscow
- The Russian
Kremlin critic Alexej Navalny
is in a coma after alleged poisoning - now
another government
critic
has been attacked in the country by
President Vladimir Putin
.
The activist and journalist
Yegor Zhukov
apparently suffered serious injuries in an assault.
The 22-year-old had to go to
hospital
because of lacerations on the face and suspected
traumatic brain injury
, as the radio station
Echo Moskwy
reported on Monday.
However, he did not suffer any serious internal injuries, said Zhukov's team.
He has now been released from the hospital.
After Navalny now Zhukov: Putin critics beaten up - Kremlin sees no connection
Zhukov, who is a well-known blogger in Russia, works for the Kremlin-critical station
Echo Moskwy
after the judiciary forbade him to continue operating a video channel on the Internet.
His programs have
high ratings
.
For example, Zhukov also interviewed the opposition leader Navalny, who is currently being
treated at the Charité
in
Berlin
for his severe symptoms of poisoning
.
The Kremlin officially sees no connection between the Navalny case and the attack on the blogger.
"We do not know who attacked Zhukov, we also do not know why," said
spokesman Dmitri Peskov of
the
Interfax agency
.
"We hope that those responsible will be found and punished."
Russia: unknowns ambush Kremlin critic Zhukov - pictures of the injuries published on Instagram
Zhukov's team posted
pictures of the injuries on
social networks
.
Accordingly, the young man's head continued to be hit after he had already fallen to the ground.
Two unknown men are said to have ambushed the activist in
front of his apartment
on Sunday after a broadcast
and then beat him up.
Check out this post on Instagram
⚡️⚡️На Егора Жукова напали и избили возле дома⚡️⚡️
A post shared by Егор Жуков (@realzhukov) on Aug 30, 2020 at 12:00 PM PDT
According
to their own statements, the
police in Moscow
have initiated an investigation.
According to Zhukov's team, strangers tried to attack him on his doorstep a month ago.
But at that time he was able to flee.
There have been multiple threats.
Putin's Russia: Again and again attacks on dissenters - Zhukov spoke of plans for the presidency
Again and again there are
serious
attacks on
those who
think differently
in
Russia
, who have hardly ever been cleared up.
This is one of the reasons why Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU) recently described the German-Russian relationship as tense.
Zhukov once said that he wanted to become Russian President.
He is considered a talented and extremely quick-witted political speaker.
He is a critic of Kremlin chief Vladimir Putin and exemplifies the politicization of youth in Russia.
Last year, as a student, Zhukov also appeared in
opposition
protests.
As a result, he was first in prison and then under house arrest for weeks.
During this time there were many solidarity actions in Moscow.
A court sentenced him to
three years probation
in December
and banned him from running his own websites on the Internet for two years.
The
Echo Moskwy
broadcaster
then added him to its editorial team.
Zhukov and Navalny: Attacks on critics in Russia - victims made headlines with speech
Zhukov's
closing statement in court
was considered one of the
most discussed speeches in Russia
last year
.
In it, he accused the leadership in Moscow of consistently pursuing “dehumanization” as the only social policy and that the
autocracy was
the only “traditional institution” that the state “honored”.
The 22-year-old studied political science at the renowned
Higher School of Economics in Moscow
.
For the new semester he wanted to do his master's degree in film art.
He initially received approval, but then the university announced that this
course of study allegedly no longer existed
, he said in a video.
(
dpa / fn
)
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