What happened to Navalny's headquarters network after it was recognized as extremist

Emigration, arrests and fines

Three months have passed since Navalny's Headquarters (their activities are banned on the territory of RUSSIA) were added to the list of extremist organizations. The HEAD of the network of headquarters, Leonid Volkov, disbanding them, announced at the end of April that they had been released "to float freely." RBC found out what happened since the dissolution.

By the time the Navalny Headquarters website was blocked, their number in the country reached 37. RBC spoke with 16 ex-coordinators, information about the rest was collected from open sources - media publications, COURT cards, social networks. Judging by the data studied, two out of 37 in 2020-2021 were not brought to administrative responsibility, 11 are under investigation.

The total period of administrative arrests that the former heads of headquarters served in 2020-2021 is 457 days. The longest administrative arrest — 102 days in 2021 — was with Kurgan coordinator Alexei Schwartz. (“I even sat out Navalny,” he told RBC.)

The total amount of fines issued is 4.158 million rubles, most of them are claims for damages after the January rallies in support of Navalny. The ex-head of the headquarters in Krasnodar, Anastasia Panchenko, was fined 50 thousand rubles. in the case of propaganda of non-traditional sexual relations. She posted on her Instagram stories a screenshot of “two faces, by external signs of a female,” who “carry out tactile touches with their lips to each other,” according to her lawyer.