❗Repressions in #Russia: Using face recognition systems, the police continue a series of night arrests of the participants of the peaceful protest on April 21 & journalists. #Navalny 's Anti-Corruption Foundation is banned & labeled an "extremist"/"terrorist" organization. 🧵 👇🏻 
In Saratov and Murmansk, Navalny's headquarters were vandalized; under gunfire. The former head of Navalny's Center in Archangelsk was sentenced to 2.5 years in a penal colony for sharing a video of Rammstein's song for "distributing pornography. "
https://mobile.twitter.com/teamnavalny/status/1387712079717703683
A non-profit human rights association of lawyers and journalists representing Navalny's Foundation in court is also under attack. Today, the head of this team, a prominent attorney, was arrested, tried and is now prohibited from communicating with witnesses in the case ...
...and from using all means of communications, including the Internet. The team's IT-expert was also detained and his apartment raided.
The attack on the media continues. Meduza, one of the leading journalistic outlets, was recognized as "a foreign agent." Today, Putin signed a law that introduces large fines for sharing information by the "foreign agent" media outlets without specifying the status.
TikTok began to remove anti-government posts, in particular videos criticizing Vladimir Putin. I receive multiple reports of people being arrested on a daily basis.
On April 29, the European Parliament adopted a resolution proposing to disconnect Russia from the SWIFT system, stop the construction of Nord Stream 2 and abandon Russian oil and gas--but their resolutions mean very little.
Failure to act now might backfire for the EU and US. Putin will continue the hybrid war and we all might see the results during the next referendums and elections. The international community needs to stop a criminal government from destroying the world. This graffiti is no more.
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