An employee of the poisoned Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny was beaten up in the city of Chelyabinsk ahead of the upcoming regional elections.
The team said the coordinator of Nawalny's staff in the city on the Urals was attacked by strangers during the night. He may have sustained serious head injuries. According to a report by the Interfax news agency, the police announced that they would be investigating the case.
Several Navalny helpers are said to have received numerous threats in the past few weeks. In Chelyabinsk, the regional parliament is elected at the weekend. Navalny's team wants to break the dominance of the Kremlin party United Russia there. The office in which Navalny's team works was also attacked a few days ago in the city of Novosibirsk.
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