There are so many political prisoners that people have almost stopped writing about them.
But I want to draw your attention to RBC journalist Alexander Sokolov, who has been arrested, so that you understand that one of Russia’s best investigative journalists has been arrested.
Sokolov is suspected of involvement in the activities of the organization “Army of the People’s Will,” which has been designated extremist in Russia.
Honestly, it sounds absurd.
I don’t know Alexander personally, but I read his work regularly—he is one of the most impressive investigative reporters around. Here is a list of some of his pieces, each of which proves that point.
Maybe this is what they meant when they wrote that he was “destabilizing the political situation”?