Russian Interior Ministry officers gather outside a building, which houses the office of the Anti-corruption Foundation led by opposition leader Alexei Navalny, before a rally for a boycott of a March 18 presidential election in Moscow, Russia January 28, 2018. REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov
January 28, 2018
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian police arrived at the Moscow headquarters of opposition leader Alexei Navalny on Sunday morning and started to try to force their way in by using an angle grinder, Kira Yarmysh, a spokeswoman for Navalny said.
Photographs posted on the Internet by Navalny’s supporters showed about 14 policemen gathered outside his office door. Yarmysh said she thought the raid was designed to shut down the work of a TV studio inside.
Hundreds of supporters of Navalny began a nationwide day of protests against the authorities on Sunday, calling on voters to boycott what they said was a rigged presidential election on March 18.
(Reporting by Denis Pinchuk and Andrew Osborn; Writing by Andrew Osborn; Editing by Katya Golubkova)
