: :inin Kyiv (EET)

Russia raids homes, offices of election monitors


MOSCOW: Russian police on Tuesday raided the offices of election watchdog Golos as well as the homes of its employees, a lawyer for the group said, amid an ever-increasing crackdown on independent voices in the country.
Earlier Tuesday police raided the homes of several Golos employees, including the apartment of senior executive Grigory Melkonyants and confiscated equipment including computers.
“They are searching the offices as we speak,” a Golos lawyer, Olga Gnezdilova, told AFP.
Police have linked the raids to a tax investigation against the head of the group’s branch in the Volga city of Samara, but Golos described the searches as the …read more

Source: theSun

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