Mass raids target Russian opposition leaders

Russian investigators raided opposition offices across the country yesterday, in the latest move to increase pressure on top Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny and his allies. The early morning raids targeted more than 100 offices and homes in 30 cities, the opposition said, including the headquarters of Navalny’s Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK) in Moscow. Navalny, an anti-corruption campaigner, denounced the raids as an attempt to intimidate the opposition. The raids followed similar mass searches last month and came less than a week after Navalny’s foundation was declared “a foreign agent”.