One of the last Russian oppositional arrested – Diepresse.com

In Russia, Lew Schlosberg, one of the last leading opposition politicians, has been arrested, according to his party. He was accused of repeated discrediting of the army, the regional group of the Liberal opposition party Jabloko said in the Northwest Russian Pskow. Schlosberg comes as deputy party chairman from the region.

According to the party, the background is a video of a debate in January, in which Schlosberg had occurred for an early ceasefire in the Ukraine War. Schlosberg therefore denied the video published in a social network. He had appealed against the arrest. According to the party, searches by the party office, the apartment in which Schlosberg lives with his wife, and his father’s apartment was preceded by the arrest.

Criminal proceedings against Schlosberg had already been initiated last October. The state investigative committee of Russia accused him at the time that he had kept his status as a « foreign agent » in public statements. With the classification as a so -called foreign agent brand market, the Russian judiciary critics; You have to state this in every publication or post in social networks. Schlosberg was one of the last prominent opponents of war in Russia, which was still at large.

Hardly any more opposition in Russia

The Kremlin has largely switched off critical media and the opposition. The most important opponent of Kremlin chief Vladimir Putin, Alexej Nawalny, died in February last year under unexplained circumstances in the « Polarwolf » criminal camp in the Arctic region. Nawalny, who had already been poisoned with the chemical fighter Nowitschok in 2020, was temporarily a member of Jabloko. Many opponents of Putin are silent for fear for their lives, others are in exile.

At best, weak remnants of a liberal opposition are still active in the country. In the Russian parliament, the state duma, Jabloko has not been more than at least at the local level, the liberal opposition party is still represented. Her founder Grigori Jawlinski also called for a ceasefire in Ukraine with a view to the rapprochement of the United States and Russia. (APA/dpa)