Last night, Anna Dodonova, coordinator of the #Twenty project, was attacked. I have written about Anya before—it was her home that was searched as part of the case over the “poster from the fence,” and on one occasion her phone was taken from her during questioning at the Investigative Committee (Russia’s main federal investigative agency), officially recorded as a “seizure.”
It was a real ambush: Anya was lying in wait for at 1:40 a.m. near her home, about 10 meters from the entrance. Two masked men quickly and efficiently forced her to the ground and threatened to kill her if she screamed. They took her bag with her laptop and mobile phone—the very devices that had previously escaped “seizure” by the Investigative Committee.
We cannot say with 100% certainty that this was not an ordinary street robbery. However, there are a number of facts that make the situation suspicious: a clearly planned ambush targeting someone who had no valuables and was not carrying large sums of money; and surveillance of Anya that was noticeable even to her lawyer, Tatyana Solomina.
At the ACF (Anti-Corruption Foundation), Dodonova coordinates a project focused on fighting illicit enrichment, and her laptop contains all sorts of our materials on officials’ dachas and real estate, along with related plans, and so on. In other words, exactly the kind of thing crooks and thieves would be most interested in.
A police report has been filed. We demand that the Ministry of Internal Affairs take the case under special supervision, conduct a thorough investigation, and solve it.
Anna Dodonova herself (party nickname: Dodo) is feeling fine; fortunately, she has no injuries. She has already been at work since this morning.