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Russian imprisoned opposition leader has been missing for 17 days
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https://www.cnn.com/2023/12/22/europe/navalny-disappearance-putin-election-intl-hnk/index.html
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Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny was again absent from two scheduled court hearings conducted via video link on Friday, according to a statement from his team.
Navalny’s aides have restated a plea for information, offering a cryptocurrency reward for complete and reliable details about his current location or status.
Asked repeatedly last week about Navalny’s absence, the Kremlin told reporters it had “neither the intention nor the ability to monitor the fate of prisoners and the process of their stay in the relevant institutions.”
Vladimir Milov, a former Russian deputy energy minister and now an adviser to Navalny, told CNN’s Richard Quest that the timing of Navalny’s disappearance was “no coincidence,” noting the announcement by Russian President Vladimir Putin of his intention to run again in Russia’s elections in March 2024 – a move that could see him retain power until at least 2030.
“Putin is really willing to show that he is going to enter the Kremlin for another term through intimidation, through repression, through pressure on society, and that is clearly a blackmail on all the opposition forces,” Milov added.
Milov said his colleagues needed to send formal and written inquiries to detention institutions in Russia to request information on Navalny’s whereabouts, a process he described as a “tedious” and “time and effort consuming.”
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