'Navalny's team will not stop its activities, they shouldn't hope for that,' Ivan Zhdanov, a top Navalny associate who headed his foundation, said.
This ruling would prevent people associated with the group from running for public office and could subject activists who worked for the group or anyone who otherwise supported the group to lengthy prison sentences.
In this Saturday, Feb. 20, 2021, file photo, Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny looks at photographers standing in the Babuskinsky District Court in Moscow, Russia. The Moscow City Court on Wednesday, June 9, 2021 is expected to grant prosecutors’ request to designate Navalny’s Foundation for Fighting Corruption and his sprawling network of regional offices across Russia as extremist organizations.
Just as the Moscow court was considering the prosecutors' request to outlaw Navalny's organizations, Russian lawmakers have fast-tracked a new law that banned members of organizations declared extremist from running for public office. The law was signed by Putin last week — and combined with the expected court ruling will dash the hopes of several of Navalny's associates who have declared their intention to run for the Russian parliament in the Sept. 19 election.
Days before his arrest, Pivovarov announced the dissolution of his Open Russia movement to protect members from prosecution, but that didn't stop authorities from pulling him off a Warsaw-bound plane at St. Petersburg's airport last week. A court in southern Russia's Krasnodar region ordered him to be held for two months pending an investigation.
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