By Anna Chernova and Ivana Kottasová
Officers stand outside Moscow's Basmanny district court during a hearing against four staff members of the DOXA magazine.
The office of a Russian magazine for students (click here) was raided and several of its editors were temporarily detained by authorities on Wednesday morning, after the publication expressed its support for jailed Kremlin critic Alexey Navalny, according to DOXA magazine.
The homes of four editors and some of their family members were searched, DOXA said in an official statement published on their website.
According to DOXA, phones and laptops were seized during the searches and journalists Armen Aramyan, Alla Gutnikova, Vladimir Metelkin and Natalia Tyshkevich were taken by the Russian Investigative Committee for questioning. All four journalists have now been charged for inciting minors to protest, said DOXA, which also rejected the allegation.
"There were no calls to illegal actions in our video -- we said that young people should not be afraid to express their opinions," DOXA's statement read. Agora, the legal organization representing the four journalists, referred CNN to DOXA's statement....
The Soviet Union is gone because of citizen oppression under communism. The many countries that broke off from the old Soviet Union are now free countries and practice democracy. It is what the Russian people long for.
Today in Russia, Vladimir Putin is attempting to hang onto power in whichever way he can including shutting down a student newspaper. Putin knows he has lost the support of the Russian people. It is a matter of time before all of Russia will be free as well. The communists will have destroyed Russia no differently than the Soviet Union.
A global pandemic and Earth is melting down and Putin goes to war. Ridiculous.
