Former Russian deputy Dmitryy Gudkov, one of the most prominent opponents of the Kremlin, fled to Ukraine for fear of being arrested. “I am getting closer to Kiev,” Gudkov wrote in a post on Facebook which he confirmed to France Presse as authentic. Gudkov then explained that sources close to the Kremlin had told him that, if he did not leave the country, he would be arrested as part of a “fake” criminal case against him.
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Last Thursday, the 41-year-old was released without charge after being arrested a few days earlier on charges of failing to pay the rent in 2015, according to his supporters an excuse to prevent him from running in the parliamentary elections next September.
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Instead, Andrei Pivovarov, another Kremlin opponent arrested this week while trying to leave the country on a flight to Warsaw, remains in the cell. Pivarov had been the executive director of Open Russia, an association founded by Mikhail Khodorkovsky. The businessman, hostile to Russian President Vladimir Putin, announced last week the dismantling of the organization to prevent its members from being arrested.
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