Igor Beketov, aka Gosha Tarasevich, the leader of SERB. Photo: LiveJournal
This Monday, opposition leader Alexey Navalny proved how useful it is to have millions of supporters among Russia’s young, energetic Internet users. Days after Navalny was attacked outside his office in Moscow, his supporters rallied online to identify the likely culprits: activists from a movement called “South East Russian Bloc,” better known as SERB.
On April 27, outside the Moscow office of the Anti-Corruption Foundation, a man sprayed Navalny in the face with green antiseptic. The assailant immediately fled the scene, and Navalny was briefly hospitalized with what turned out to …read more
Source: Global Voices
