MOSCOW (Reuters) – Jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny has referred to as on Russians to stage daily protests towards Moscow’s army marketing campaign in Ukraine, his spokesperson wrote on Twitter on Wednesday.
“Alexei Navalny has referred to as for folks to exit and protest towards the battle daily at 19:00 and on weekends at 14:00. The principal squares of your cities, wherever you’re,” spokesperson Kira Yarmysh wrote.
Navalny’s motion had beforehand referred to as for a marketing campaign of civil disobedience to protest towards Russia’s invasion of its neighbour.
Navalny, essentially the most distinguished opponent of President Vladimir Putin, was jailed final yr after he returned to Russia from Germany following his restoration from what Western laboratory assessments established was an try to poison him with a nerve agent in Siberia. Russia denied finishing up such an assault.
Since then, authorities have clamped down much more tightly on his motion, and key figures have fled into exile after being designated by the authorities as “international brokers”.
(Reporting by Reuters, Editing by Timothy Heritage)
