Moscow City Hall refused to hold a commemoration of Nemtsov and Navalny

The Moscow City Hall refused to hold a commemoration of Alexei Navalny and Boris Nemtsov, which the organizers planned to hold on March 2 in the city center.

In the official response published by the politician Ekaterina Duntsova, one of the applicants for the campaign, it is said that in Moscow there is a ban on holding public events “in view of the developing epidemiological situation”. The document contains the corresponding point of the decree of Mayor Sergey Sobyanin dated June 8, 2020.

The media note that the decrees adopted during the coronavirus pandemic regularly become the reason for official refusals in opposition actions in different cities of Russia. At the same time, officials allow pro-state events in the same cities.

• Opposition politician Alexei Navalny died on February 16 in the Polar Wolf special regime colony. In the conclusion about his death, it is said that it occurred due to natural causes. Supporters of the politician believe that he was killed or at least brought to death by inhuman conditions of detention in the prison. A few days before his death, Navalny was placed in SHIZO for the 27th time – a cell with the harshest conditions.
• One of the leaders of the Russian opposition, Boris Nemtsov, was killed on February 27, 2015, on the Bolshoi Moskvoretsky Bridge in Moscow. The perpetrators of the murder have not yet been identified. Relatives and colleagues of Nemtsov believe that Vladimir Putin’s entourage – in particular, the head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov – is involved in the organization of the crime and the cover-up of the guilty.