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Navalny was doused with brilliant green in Moscow

An unknown person in Moscow attacked Alexei Navalny and doused him with brilliant green. An ambulance was called for the politician. This was reported by his press secretary Kira Yarmysh. The incident took place right outside the office of the Anti-Corruption Foundation.

According to preliminary data, Navalny has a chemical burn on both corneas.

- Anya Litvinenko (@ Litvinenko_aa1) April 28, 2017
April 30, 20:21 Navalny said that he may be left without an eye. Zelenka, according to his doctor, was most likely mixed with something else.

"What do you think, will they come to Ren-TV tomorrow with the seizure of the recording and finding out where it came from and why the rentals covered the faces of the attackers? Of course not," Navalny wrote on his blog.



May 1, 17:25 The attackers on Navalny were identified as activists of the SERB movement Alexander Petrunko and Alexey Kulakov. Petrunko, apparently, poured green paint on the oppositionist, and Kulakov just stood there. Both their faces were covered in the video of the attack, which was published by the TV channel REN.

Navalny's supporter Yevgeny Bryzgalin discovered that REN employees had uploaded not one, but at least four videos of the attack to their website. They are the same, but with different blurring on their faces. In one of the videos, the face of Kulakov was allegedly not covered.



SERB participated in the attack on Navalny outside the FBK office in April last year. Then they first tried to throw a cake at the oppositionist, after which they poured something odorous. There was no investigation into the attack then.

Petrunko is also known as a man, urine (or something similar) one of the paintings at the exhibition of photographer Jock Sturges in Moscow.

The leader of the SERB movement Gosha Tarasevich rejected the accusations of Navalny's supporters on the air of the radio station "Moscow Speaks": "What else can they say? That Navalny is promoting himself, admit it? They will, of course, blame someone. As far as I know, Sasha is already a long time ago in Crimea, he went there before the holidays. You always need to point at someone to avert suspicions. Moreover, you saw that at first Navalny had half his face covered, then his whole face was covered. Nonsense. "

- Kira Yarmysh (@Kira_Yarmysh)

Alexei Navalny, who travels around the country, opening campaign headquarters and participating in rallies, was doused with brilliant green in Barnaul on March 20. The politician also said that the attacker disappeared into the building of the regional administration.

"I felt immense relief when they shouted to me," This is brilliant green! " I thought with horror that it was acid. But what about brilliant green! " - wrote Navalny in his blog.

"It's still very funny - a dude with brilliant green ran, got into the car, and she took him to the building of the regional administration! She is still there, parked peacefully," the oppositionist added.

The moment of the attack on Navalny was captured on video filmed by the well-known Barnaul activist Anton Podchasov.

In connection with the incident, representatives of Navalny's headquarters have already turned to the police, Interfax reports. "We have already contacted the police in connection with this incident," Olga Fotieva, a representative of the headquarters in Barnaul, told the agency at the scene.

According to the head of Navalny's campaign headquarters, Leonid Volkov, the attacker got into a Nissan Qashqai and drove to the courtyard of the Altai Territory administration. "People from Barnaul, or maybe who knows the car?" Nissan Qashqai M656RV22, a man with brilliant green jumped into it and left for the courtyard of the regional administration, "Volkov wrote in his account in Facebook.

Also, Navalny, with a green face and hands, recorded a video message: "Maybe the Kremlin thinks that I will not record videos with a green face, but I will definitely record them, because even more people will watch me."

"The Barnaul and Biysk volunteers (today we are opening two headquarters) will have the most stylish selfies," Navalny added. He invites residents of other cities to rallies against corruption on March 26.

"Rebellious enemy of Putin"

The election campaign of Alexei Navalny is of interest not only in Russia, but also abroad. So the journalists of The Times note that "the biggest critic of Vladimir Putin at home neglected threats and intimidation and opened campaign headquarters in Siberia in an attempt to force the Kremlin to allow him to participate in the presidential elections."

The publication reminds that Navalny was sentenced on probation, and, according to Russian law, anyone convicted of a criminal offense has no right to be elected to a public office. "However, according to the constitution, this applies only to those who are in prison, and Navalny resorted to this in order to maintain pressure on the authorities," - says the material, which is quoted by InoPressa.

"Earlier, Navalny opened several campaign headquarters in large cities closer to Moscow, but his trip to Siberia this weekend was his first foray into the very heart of Russia," foreign journalists note.

Alexei Navalny, who decided to run for president in 2018, has been traveling around the country for a month and opening campaign headquarters. In Tomsk, the opposition leader's election headquarters was evacuated almost immediately after opening on Friday, March 17, due to a bomb report. Prior to that, unknown persons filled the doors of the apartments of the coordinator and an employee of Navalny's election headquarters in the city with foam.

In early March, a similar incident with polyurethane foam occurred in Nizhny Novgorod. Then all entrances to Navalny's headquarters were filled with sealant. Head of staff Anna Stepanova said that the owner of the building was offered to end cooperation with Navalny and threatened to destroy the premises if he refused.

The attack on the politician took place last Saturday, March 18, in Kemerovo, where two strangers immediately escaped threw eggs at him. A similar incident took place on Sunday, March 19, at a rally against the increase in utility tariffs in Novosibirsk.

"Moskovsky Komsomolets" reminds that on April 6, Navalny plans to open his campaign headquarters in Irkutsk and Krasnoyarsk. On April 13, the presentation is scheduled in Omsk and Tyumen.

Two people were caught on one of the video recordings of the attack on Navalny: one man, apparently, is filming the attack on the camera, the second, whose face is smeared, pours green paint on the politician. Social media users recognized them as activists of the pro-Kremlin SERB movement. Filmed on camera - Alexey Kulakov, attacker - Alexander Petrunko.

Kulakov admitted that he had come “just to take pictures,” and said that he sharply condemned what had happened. At the same time, FBK director Roman Rubanov posted a screenshot of a commentary in which Kulakov writes: “We are preparing a bucket of green stuff, personally for a bastard, a criminal, a parasite, a swindler and a thief Navalny”. Kulakov stated that he did not consider his comment to be a threat and did not call for real violence against Navalny. He called the incident a coincidence.

One of the SERB leaders is Gosha Tarasevich (real name Igor Beketov). Not too popular actor (for 5 years he starred in 18 episodic roles in Russian TV series). Nevertheless, he claims that his film awards are one of the sources of the movement's content.

Alexander Petrunko is known as the man who threw out a can of urine on the work of photographer Jock Sturges at an exhibition in Moscow, for which he received 7 days of administrative arrest under the article “Petty hooliganism”. Users note his almost 100% resemblance to the man who attacked Navalny: the neckline and color of the sweater are the same as in Petrunko's photographs, the same jacket, the same chain, just the same sticking out from under the sweater, even the physique, up to the volume of the pectoral muscles, exactly the same as that of Alexander.


Alexey Kulakov, filming the attack. He claims that he does not remember who called him to the shooting.

However, SERB leader Gosha Tarasevich persistently denies the movement's involvement in the attack. He explains Kulakov's presence at the scene as follows: “We got a call with a proposal to come to the FBK office and film something interesting.” Petrunko, according to Tarasevich, was not at the action. “Two days before the May holidays, he went to the sea, to the Crimea,” says the SERB leader. (At the same time, the attack on Navalny took place 4 days before the holidays.) Tarasevich calls the incident "a well-planned provocation against the SERB movement and for the PR of Alexei Navalny." According to him, “there is an impression of a planned action” and the fact that “Navalny was ready to attack”, because the oppositionist did not chase after the attacker, and the face of the person who splashed the green paint was smeared on the video, unlike the face of the SERB activist. “We do not hide our actions and always post notes to show an example of actions,” added Tarasevich. - We try to inflict minimal physical damage. Rip the jacket a little bit ... If we pour a stinking liquid over, then we know for sure that it is not toxic. It would be more interesting for us to throw a cake. "


The alleged attacker is Alexander Petrunko. Doesn't communicate with the press. Apparently preparing an alibi.

Punishment for actions against oppositionists with brilliant green was followed only once. When the presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov called the attack on the writer Lyudmila Ulitskaya "hooliganism", the police detained a 33-year-old citizen of Ukraine and drew up a report on him under Article 20.1 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation "Minor hooliganism", but the attacker got off with a fine of only 500 rubles ; the maximum punishment for her is 15 days of arrest.

Lawyer Nikolai Zbroshenko believes that the attackers who splashed brilliant green in the face of Navalny and Fedorova can be punished even under criminal article 213 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation "Hooliganism", as they caused harm to health, the maximum punishment for it is up to 7 years in prison. However, the police can qualify this incident under the "usual" administrative article. If Petrunko really attacked Navalny, for him it will be the second offense under this article - this can become an aggravating circumstance when choosing a punishment.

Of course, we asked the law enforcement officers: what happens to the search for the criminal who attacked the opposition leader? As reported to "MK" in the press service of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in Moscow, after the message to the service "02" that Alexei Navalny was doused with brilliant green on Leninskaya Sloboda Street, a pre-investigation check was started. Actually, the news of the check appeared on the website of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs on April 28 at 21.30, more than 30 hours after the attack. And since then, nothing has changed. Indeed, four days (this note was written yesterday at 16.00) is too little time for our bodies to sort out such a complex matter. Actually, and there is no case: the check is pre-investigation. And this despite the fact that the corpus delicti is evident (more precisely, on the face), and the attacker himself was not presented to the police on a silver platter.