Oooo, Dmitry Medvedev is not as simple as he seems! You may remember that his response to the allegations of large-scale corruption was to block Navalny on Instagram. But that was not all. Today we learned of yet another devious response by the authorities to the actions of Alexei, the Anti-Corruption Foundation, and apparently everyone who took to the streets on March 26.
We sent Navalny an e-reader at the detention center (this is allowed), but he never received it. We started looking into what had happened. It turned out that investigator G.E. Mozgovoy from the investigative team of the Main(!) Directorate(!) for the Investigation(!) of Especially(!) Important(!) Cases(!) of the Investigative Committee(!) of the Russian Federation had also come to the detention center and, as part of a criminal case opened under the article on “hooliganism,” carried out a seizure, confiscating items supposedly vital to the investigation and proving Navalny’s criminal activity.
Those items turned out to be:
1) That very e-reader
2) A Nokia RM-1134 phone
and...
A pair of black shoelaces. Evidently the very same ones Navalny removed at the Konkovo police station, where he was photographed by an official witness.
That’s how it is. No one is reviewing the materials on Medvedev’s corruption, no one is opening a criminal case against Usmanov over the bribe. No one is carrying out seizures at Medvedev’s vineyards in Anapa or Tuscany. But the Main Investigative Directorate of the Investigative Committee is busy with Navalny’s shoelaces.
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