[Russia] - Russian Priest Detained After Announcing Navalny Memorial Service

INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
A St
Petersburg priest has been detained after he announced he would hold a memorial service for the late Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny, his
Soviet victims of political repression.Later Saturday, Mikhnov-Vaitenko was hospitalized with a stroke, St
43, his lawyer called an ambulance
Grigory was taken to the hospital and the decision was made to hospitalize him," Vishnevsky said, adding that he had just spoken
the politician at monuments across Russia.The memorial service in St
sentence in the Arctic when authorities announced his death.He was imprisoned in January 2021, when he returned to Russia from Germany after
recovering from a near-fatal poisoning with what Western scientists said was the banned military-grade nerve agent Novichok.Russia outlawed
Navalny puts his supporters at risk.