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Russia opens criminal probe into Navalny ally over ‘threat’: associate
MOSCOW, Dec 25, 2020 (BSS/AFP) – Russian authorities on Friday opened a criminal probe into an ally of opposition leader Alexei Navalny, Lyubov Sobol, alleging she threatened a person Navalny claimed took part in his poisoning, an associate said.
Ivan Zhdanov, head of Navalny’s Anti-Corruption Fund, wrote on Twitter that investigators launched a probe into trespassing “with the use of violence or a threat to use it” after Sobol rang the doorbell of the alleged Federal Security Service (FSB) agent.
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