{"id":3387,"date":"2020-12-22T16:06:29","date_gmt":"2020-12-22T16:06:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/?p=142323"},"modified":"2020-12-22T16:06:29","modified_gmt":"2020-12-22T16:06:29","slug":"russian-documentary-filmmaker-detained-while-picketing-in-support-of-navalny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2020\/12\/22\/russian-documentary-filmmaker-detained-while-picketing-in-support-of-navalny\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian Documentary Filmmaker Detained While Picketing In Support Of Navalny"},"content":{"rendered":"
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MOSCOW — A Russian documentary filmmaker was detained briefly by police after publicly expressing support for opposition politician Aleksei Navalny, whose release of a phone conversation with a Russian agent shows how the country’s Federal Security Service (FSB) poisoned the Kremlin critic with a Novichok nerve agent.<\/p>\n

Vitaly Mansky was picked up by police after he neared the FSB building in Moscow on December 22 while holding a blue pair of men’s underwear, a nod to the phone conversation where FSB agent Konstantin Kudryavtsev admitted Navalny’s underwear had been laced with poison in an apparent assassination attempt on the 44-year-old opposition leader.<\/p>\n

Mansky, who later confirmed to the Interfax news agency that he had been freed, was one of several activists who held similar singe-person pickets in Moscow, demanding a probe to be launched into Navalny’s poisoning. Reports said several others were also detained.<\/p>\n

Similar pickets were also held in front of FSB buildings<\/a><\/strong> in the Siberian cities of Omsk and Irkutsk on December 22.<\/p>\n

The protests were sparked by Navalny’s December 21 release of a 49-minute phone conversation with Kudryavtsev. During the call, the FSB officer was duped by Navalny into giving the details, with the opposition activist posing as a high-ranking security official conducting a debriefing on the August attack in the Siberian city of Tomsk.<\/p>\n

Navalny was airlifted to Germany for treatment several days after collapsing on a plane in Russia.<\/p>\n

Laboratories in Germany, France, and Sweden later concluded that the anti-corruption campaigner was poisoned with a Soviet-style Novichok nerve agent.<\/p>\n

The EU and Britain in mid-October imposed asset freezes and travel bans<\/a><\/strong> against six senior Russian officials and a state scientific research center for the “attempted assassination.\u201d<\/p>\n

Russian officials, including President Vladimir Putin, have denied involvement<\/a><\/strong> in the poisoning.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n

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