Antonina Favorskaya was officially charged with extremism

SOTAvision journalist Antonina Favorskaya has been officially charged with participating in an extremist community, the OVD-Info human rights project reports.

Favorskaya is accused of placing some posts on the platforms of the Alexei Navalny Anti-Corruption Foundation, which is recognized by the Russian authorities as an “extremist organization”. It is reported that on Friday, March 29, the Basmanny Court of Moscow will choose a measure of restraint for the journalist. Now she is in a detention center.

Antonina Favorskaya was detained on March 17 in a cafe after visiting the grave of Alexei Navalny at the Borysovsk cemetery – because of an anonymous call about an unknown crime. The next day, she was arrested for 10 days on charges of disobeying the police: allegedly, Favorskaya refused to show them documents, “demonstratively waved her hands, grabbed her uniform and tried to run away.”

On March 27, the journalist was supposed to leave the Sakharovo detention center in Moscow, but on her way out she was detained again and taken home for a search. Photographer Aleksandra Astakhova and journalist Anastasia Musatova who met Favorskaya were also detained. They were also subjected to searches and interrogations, after which they were released as witnesses.

• Antonyna Favorskaya covered court hearings on the claims of Alexei Navalny in Vladimir and Kovrov. A month before the death of the politician, the journalist went to Harp to film a report about the city where the colony where Navalny was staged was located. It was Favorskaya who shot the last video with the opposition figure on February 15.