Jailed Russian Opposition Figures Call For One-Day Hunger Strike

Prominent jailed Russian opposition figures -- including Aleksei Navalny, Vladimir Kara-Murza, and Ilya Yashin -- called on fellow political prisoners and backers to conduct a one-day hunger strike to protest oppression in the country. In a statement published on Navalny’s website on October 5, the Kremlin critics said the action would take place on October 30, a day traditionally set since 1991 to remember victims of political repression during the Soviet era. “Russia's authorities are returning to their roots: arrests, repression, closed trials,” the jailed activists said. The Kremlin has intensified its crackdown on civil society in Russia since it launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. To read the original story by RFE/RL’s Russian Service, click here.