Plagiarism Campaigner Zayakin Jailed 5 Years in Absentia for Navalny Donation
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Plagiarism Campaigner Zayakin Jailed 5 Years in Absentia for Navalny Donation
Dmitry Zayakin was arrested in August 2022 on accusations of “financing extremist activities’ He is believed to have fled Russia in October 2022, around the time Interior Ministry placed him on its wanted list.
Zayakin was arrested in August 2022 on accusations of “financing extremist activities” over a donation of 1,000 rubles ($13) he made to the late opposition activist Alexei Navalny’s Anti-Corruption Foundation.
He is believed to have fled Russia in October 2022, around the time the Interior Ministry placed him on its wanted list. Navalny ally Georgy Alburov posted a photo on Oct. 29 of that year showing Zayakin arriving in Vilnius, Lithuania.
Russian authorities declared the Anti-Corruption Foundation and Navalny’s wider political network “extremist” in 2021.