MOSCOW — Police detained Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny on Thursday during a raid on the headquarters of his Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK) in Moscow, his spokeswoman said on social media. “Alexei was forcibly detained and taken away. He did not resist. Lawyers are still at the FBK, and there’s a search underway,” Kira Yarmysh, Navalny’s spokeswoman, wrote on Twitter. It was not immediately clear why Navalny had been detained (Reporting by Maxim Rodionov; Writing by Anastasia Teterevleva Editing by Andrew Osborn)

Source: National Post December 26, 2019 09:45 UTC