Russia: Detention of Navalny associate on “extremism” charges a forewarning of mass reprisals
Reacting to the arbitrary detention of Lilia Chanysheva, the former coordinator of Aleksei Navalny’s political headquarters in the Russian city of Ufa, on charges of “establishing or leading an extremist association,” Natalia Zviagina, Amnesty International’s Moscow Office Director, said: “Lilia Chanysheva is the first member