20:04, April 2, 2015
The United Kingdom has granted political asylum to a Russian opposition activist close to Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny who faced embezzlement charges in his home country.
Vladimir Ashurkov, 43, is executive director of Russian dissident Alexei Navalny's Fund to Fight Corruption (FBK). He and his partner Alexandrina Markvo fled to London in spring last year, reports the Financial Times, after he received a summons from the Russian Investigation Committee.
Not long after Navalny was placed under house arrest in February 2014, Russian authorities raided Ashurkov's apartment. Footage from the search was aired on television. The summons came next, prompting him to leave. The Investigation Committee put a warrant out for Ashurkov's arrest in July 2014, according to the Guardian.
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