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Leonid Volkov: Alexei Navalny ally attacked in Lithuania (www.bbc.com)
submitted 8 months ago by 0x815@feddit.de to c/globalnews@lemmy.zip
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Cross-posted from: https://feddit.de/post/9945444

Leonid Volkov was assaulted with a hammer and tear gas while in his car in Vilnius on Tuesday night, Navalny spokesperson Kira Yarmysh said.

The alleged assailant is unknown, as is their motive. Lithuanian police have been informed of the incident and are investigating.

Mr Volkov has lived outside Russia for some years for his own safety and served as Navalny's chief-of-staff until the opposition leader died suddenly in prison in the Russian Arctic last month while serving a 19-year sentence after being convicted of charges that were politically motivated.

Mr Volkov, 43, also faces various politically motivated charges in Russia.

He served as chairman of Navalny's Anti-Corruption Foundation until last year when he resigned following the revelation he had signed letters calling for the European Union to drop some Russian sanctions.

Despite living outside Russia he has also made sure that the activism of Navalny and his team could continue.

"We will all work even more. And with even greater anger," his wife posted on social media.

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[–] sturlabragason@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I believe the Lithuanians won’t like this.

[–] sukhmel@programming.dev 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

If you mean their government, I'd expect them not to care a lot. The Baltic isn't known for big love for anything related to Russia, except for gas transit maybe

[–] Lewo@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Then they probably won't like Kremlin's goons attacking people in their capital

[–] sukhmel@programming.dev 1 points 8 months ago

That depends on how nicely they will be asked, I guess. I have no faith in any kind of common sense on the country level, if someone "doesn't like" someone else's goons it's always not because this is moral, but because the countries didn't give each other enough bribes in money or other matters