Today, they are locking me up yet again.
It happens so often that the media commentary has turned ironic. For example, Open Russia put together “The Top 10 Arrests of Navalny That Never Happened”.
We know why this keeps happening from the well-known correspondence: this is how they monitor things: “It makes sense to regularly test public reaction to the possibility of placing Navalny in pre-trial detention (SIZO, a Russian remand prison).”
Interestingly, the State Duma (the lower house of Russia’s parliament) is also set to consider today whether to launch a parliamentary investigation into Serdyukov’s activities. Let me remind you that an ACF investigation found that Serdyukov’s son has been successfully buying up properties privatized by his father and Vasilyeva.
United Russia has already declared such a parliamentary investigation inadvisable. There is not even any need for monitoring here — everything is perfectly clear.