This is the first publicly recognized scenario of pursuit of donations to Navalny businesses due to the fact they have been declared extremist and banned previous summer.
By all accounts, this is a new tactic by the routine to intensify the repression of manifestations of discontent.
Zayakins was detained in an condominium in Moscow on Sunday and taken to court docket on Monday, “Radio Brīvība” rates the journalist’s colleagues.
If convicted, Zayakin faces up to 8 yrs in jail.
Investigators accuse Zayakin of donating 1,000 rubles to the Anti-Corruption Fund established by Navalny, claimed the Mass Media Security Middle, which promises the reporter.
The journalist collaborated with the newspaper “Novaya Gazeta” and other publications.
Zayakin has a diploma in arithmetic and physics and is a single of the founders of the preferred Dissernet job.
“Dissernet” exposes corruption and plagiarism in the Russian scientific setting, between other issues it also analyzes doctoral theses, concentrating higher than all on the academic general performance of govt officials.
On Monday, Russian authorities also arrested notorious Kremlin critic Leonid Gozmans in connection with allegations that he publicly equated the Soviet Union with Nazi Germany. He faces 15 days of administrative arrest.
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