An exclusive interview w/Anastasia Vasilieva, #Navalny's personal doctor; a Russian opposition leader. She's facing a trial/prison sentence this week. The Kremlin's crackdown on the opposition has reached an unprecedented scale by August 2021. 🧵👇
Vasilieva is currently a defendant in the "Sanitary Case", along with nine other prominent opposition leaders (including Aleksey Navalny's brother Oleg Navalny and press secretary Kyra Yarmysh; two Pussy Riot members, including Maria Alekhina; opposition politician Lyubov Sobol.)
The hearing is on Aug 11, 2021. Vasilieva is facing a prison sentence for allegedly violating the restrictions of the parole-like regime. The defendants of the "Sanitary Case" are charged with violating pandemic regulations by calling people to attend a pro-Navalny demonstration.
Vasilieva talks about her association with Navalny and the reasons for the current repressions. Navalny's Anti-Corruption Fund is assigned a "terrorist organization" status. Many media outlets have been declared "foreign agents" and banned/blocked.
Vasilieva also speaks about Putin's decreasing popularity, the pandemic, economic crisis, and the forthcoming elections to State Duma, the lower house of the Federal Assembly, legislative elections that will be held in Russia on 19 September 2021.
According to Anastasia Vasilieva, the best way to help the Russian opposition from the West is to share the information. Please consider sharing this interview. Here is the beginning of this story, Jan 27
https://twitter.com/ZarinaZabrisky/status/1354542469661089792
Watch commentary on Vasilieva, Russian and Belarusian opposition crackdown in my interview with @BylineTV / @BylineTimes, @peterjukes and @Hardeep_Matharu last Friday night (at 25:00 min)
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